MLK Evening – People of Color and Allies
with Karen Williams and Peace Twesigye
Monday, January 21st, 2019 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Join us for a special POC + Allies sit on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in which we remember the legacy of MLK—a life of committed, courageous, compassionate action. We will connect with our own capacity to be compassionate when coming into contact with our own suffering and the suffering of others and explore skillful action born of compassion. Karen G. Williams and Practice Leader Peace Twesigye will be leading.
No previous meditation experience is required.
Fee by donation: Suggested starting donation is $15 but whatever you offer is greatly appreciated and no one is ever turned away for lack of funds. For this event all donations are split evenly between the teacher(s) and NYI.
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Teacher(s)
karen g. williams
karen g. williams, Ph.D. (she/her) is on New York Insight’s Teachers Council and the board of Insight Meditation Society. She also co-chairs the Diversity, Equity and Liberation committee at New York Insight. In 2017 she graduated from the joint Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leader Training Program; and since then she has taught around the NYC metropolitan area, primarily in communities of color and in the LGBTQI community. karen is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Guttman Community College. Her research focuses on the carceral state and the aftermath of mass incarceration. Specifically, her scholarship examines how the institutionalization of evidence-based practices has ushered in a new wave of governance, one that synthesizes punitive power with systems of care within prisons. She brings mindfulness and meditative practices to her research and teaching to build compassionate engagement and to recognize the interconnectedness of all things. When karen is not writing or teaching, she can be found knitting or inhabiting her alter ego, “BackAlley Dred” (ohh, dare we talk about egos) who coaches junior roller derby.