Episode 3
The Journey Inward to Eliminate Oppression
Monday, January 26, 2009

Diversity practitioners and social change agents often focus their work on understanding others as a vehicle to create inclusion and promote justice. When our attention begins by looking out rather than in, we may undermine our own effectiveness and power.

On this episode of Diversity Matters®, Nanci Luna Jiménez, founder of Luna Jiménez Seminars joins co-hosts Dr. Richard Friend and Judy Seidenstein to discuss her unique approach of helping people give voice to the stories of their own lives in order to change the world and eliminate oppression.  We examine the importance of understanding and addressing internalized oppression, the role of “adultism” as the root of all other forms of oppression, and the need to have an internal home base before we can reach out across our differences as true partners.