In this episode of Life Curious Women, host Ashley Nadine Lopez interviews Misasha Suzuki Graham, a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School, she has been a practicing litigator for over 15 years, and is passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion in the legal profession as well as in her communities. She is a facilitator, writer, and speaker regarding issues of racial justice, especially with regards to children, the co-author of Dear White Women: Let’s Get (Un)comfortable Talking About Racism, and the co-host of Dear White Women. Misasha, who is biracial (Japanese and White), is married to a Black man, and is the proud mom of two very active multiracial young boys.

We get into:

• Her experience being biracial in this country led her to an interest in identity and justice.
• How reading the Supreme Court decisions in the Korematsu case led her to studying law.
• What inspired her and her co-founder/best friend to start the Dear White Women platform.
• Her experience being in white environments and passing by being biracial.
• Learning what was being said when white women thought there were no women of color in the space.
• How starting Dear White Women began as a way to help white women use their privilege to uproot systemic racism without centering themselves in the process.
• The importance of having difficult conversation about race and being anti-racist.
• Looking at racism as a systemic issue rather than an individual issue.
• Advice on how to start the uncomfortable conversations with adults and children.

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