Brad Kershner is a school leader and independent scholar, and the author of Understanding Educational Complexity: Integrating Practices and Perspectives for 21st Century Leadership. His research, teaching, and writing cover a wide range of interdependent topics, including education, leadership, parenting, race, technology, metamodernism, integral theory, meditation, complexity, and developmental psychology. You can learn more about his work and access recordings of his guided meditations on Patreon.

ashby goodrum (preferred pronouns: they/we/us) works as an advanced practice nurse in primary and maternity care settings with significant experience as a bedside nurse/psychopomp and in midwifery. Some of their research and clinical interests include gender affirming care, birth equity, palliative care, cultural trauma and healing centered engagement, and transformative justice. ashby lives in Portland, Oregon which rests on traditional village sites of multiple indigenous tribes – such as the Multnomah, Clackamas, and Tualatin – who were among the land's first human caretakers.

Books mentioned: 

Thomas Hubl - Healing Collective Trauma

Karen and Barbara Fields - Racecraft

ashby mentioned:

Isabel Wilkerson - Caste

Resmaa Menakem - My Grandmother's Hands

also: Danielle Allen, Anthony Appiah, Mariame Kaba

could also add:

Albert Murray - Omni-Americans

Carlos Hoyt - The Arc of a Bad Idea
For a deeper understanding of transgenerational trauma (a reading list):

Mariame Kaba and  other transformative justice resources

http://mariamekaba.com/publications/ 

https://survivedandpunished.org/building-accountable-communities/

https://transformharm.org/

Michael Yellow Bird expert on neurodecolonization and indigenous mindfulness

https://vimeo.com/86995336

Karen Murphy explores how to prepare the way for civic healing 

https://onbeing.org/programs/karen-murphy-the-long-view-ii-on-who-we-can-become/

Ruha Benjamin on “New Jim Code" - range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JahO1-saibU

Ruth Wilson Gilmore on racial capitalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CS627aKrJI&t=4s

Robin D.G. Kelley  on how capitalism has been racial from the beginning 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32ZwK2Zlw1U

Edward E. Baptist, author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP_Rn8InPCo&feature=emb_title

David R. Williams on how racism makes us sick 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzyjDR_AWzE&feature=youtu.be

"How to Unlearn Racism" Scientific American article

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c0151be1137a6764abd89da/t/5f7276d98f12fd4b48de2efc/1601337050346/How+To+Unlearn+Racism+-+Scientific+American+October+2020.pdf

Psychology of Radical Healing Syllabus  

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c0151be1137a6764abd89da/t/5f4acedcaf548851802d0a8a/1598738150128/Radical+Healing+Syllabus.pdf

ReRooted Podcast with Francesca M. Maximé

https://beherenownetwork.com/francesca-maxime-rerooted-ep-26-the-shift-from-fear-to-love-with-james-doty-md/

Maia Szalavitz on addiction as a learning disorder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XsbxM1jGnY

Sarah Peyton, facilitator and neuroscience educator 

https://beherenownetwork.com/francesca-maxime-rerooted-ep-41-unconscious-contracts-with-sarah-peyton/

bell hooks, groundbreaking cultural critic and author

http://www.bellhooksinstitute.com/