Invited Presenter Workshop focuses on the co-creation of new knowledge and skills in real time with lively interaction between the presenters and audience. The presenter(s) were invited; all attendees are welcome to attend.

Panel: Colleen Vesely, Ph.D.; Amber Sansbury, M.Ed.; Meagan Call-Cummings, Ph.D.; Neesa S. Ndiaye, M.S.; Canaan Bethea, M.S.; Stephanie Dodman, Ph.D.; Xiaowen Chen, M.Ed. All are at George Mason University
Chair: Colleen Vesely, Ph.D., George Mason University

This Session is Made Possible by the Advancing Family Science; Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Families; Education and Enrichment; and Feminism and Family Studies Sections.

Summary
The brutal extrajudicial murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, in the context of too many other murders and general dehumanization of Black people and weaponization of White privilege, have underscored a long overdue call to challenge all manifestations of racism in higher education. A first step is to examine our own university classrooms to understand how we are both perpetuating and dismantling systemic racism, such that we can move towards sustained anti-racist pedagogy for ourselves and in the institutions within which we operate. In this workshop, undergirded by Critical Race Theory, we discuss the development of an Anti-Racism Equity Self-Audit for University Courses – a tool that aims to develop instructor capacity to engage in requisite critically reflective practices in five key areas: 1) Instructor Critical Consciousness; 2) Understanding Students’ Backgrounds and Experiences; 3) Course Readings and Content; 4) Classroom Learning Environment; and, 5) Assignments and Assessments. In this workshop, participants will learn about the development of the tool as well as how to use equity audits to examine our teaching practice. We will discuss how instructors can implement and adapt the tool in their human development and Family Science courses. We will provide examples from previous implementations of the tool across multiple content areas related to families, education, and research methods, as well as hands-on guidance as participants begin examining their courses using this tool.
Objectives:

• Participants will understand the importance of using equity audits for examining their teaching and developing anti-racist pedagogy.
• Participants will understand how to use the anti-racism equity audit in their courses.
• Participants will begin planning for conducting an anti-racism equity audit in a current course they are teaching.