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Swan Keyes is a consultant, psychotherapist, writer, and racial justice educator dedicated to dismantling white
supremacy and other forms of oppression in the United States. She delivers trainings, lectures and workshops nationally, specializing
in helping white people investigate their racial conditioning to become more effective at interrupting oppression, building
healthy communities, and advocating for social change.
A Caucasian Jewish woman with 20 years of Buddhist meditation practice,
Swan infuses teachings of compassion and humor into all areas of her work, creating loving and challenging environments to
address the isms and catalyze change on the individual, group and social levels.
Swan is a senior teacher
with the UNtraining (untraining white liberal racism) and afacilitates interactive workshops using participatory theatre to
address racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, and other forms of social oppression.
While often engaged
as a guest lecturer, Swan's passion is in engaging communities in dialogue and action related to their own struggles. Her
direct, spontaneous, and caring style helps people access their own strengths to move into creative alliance-building for
social change. She balances intellectual exploration of the nature of systematic oppression with experiential examination
of the cultural conditioning that keeps institutional racism intact on a day-to-day basis within groups as well as in the
larger society.
Clients include universities, nonprofit organizations, spiritual centers and others committed to
social change, including Occidental College, Sarah Lawrence College, Spirit Rock Meditation Center (served as Community and
Multicultural Program Manager), SFSU, UC Berkeley, California Institute of Integral Studies, Laney College, Merritt College,
New College of California, Pacific School of Religion, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, the Wright Institute,
Buddhist Peace Fellowship, NASCO, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley, and numerous others
engaged in social change and racial justice work.
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