Ismalis Nuñez
Ismalis Nuñez is a racial equity strategist who focuses on identity, leadership, and building communities for justice. Ismalis holds a Masters Degree in Social Work from Loyola University Chicago. She has experience in recruiting and facilitating Seeking Educational Equity & Diversity (SEED) seminars both within the school and community settings. She spent the last two years as an equity transformation specialist at Courageous Conversations About Race. She is a Leadership Evanston class of XXIV alumni and was nominated for the 2017 Chicago African Americans in Philanthropy (CAAIP) Social Justice Champion Award. Ismalis is the Founder of Anew Collective Consulting. She can be found on LinkedIn.
Thursday, June 10, 2021 | 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM (CDT)
I’m Latinx/Hispanic and I Can’t be Racist: From the Dys-conscious to the Conscious
How do we wrestle with being Latinx/Hispanic and racist? Ismalis Nuñez as a Black Puerto Rican and Cuban American will connect the role that the social construction of race plays in our history and in our current lived experience. She will outline the healthy racial identity development of Black, Indigenous, Brown, White, and Multiracial people with our community and how they intersect. Ismalis will share the history of anti-Blackness and its correlation to whiteness and how they have manifested to perpetuate racism in the United States.
