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Vanessa Julye will speak with Friends about this question:
How Is White Supremacy Keeping Us from Hearing God’s Voice?
Vanessa Julye is a graduate of Westtown School and obtained a BA from Temple University. She serves as a guest speaker for many Friends meetings, schools, organizations, and Quaker conferences. Vanessa served on The Racial Healing and Wholeness Committee in her local meeting and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. She is a member of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting’s Worship and Ministry Committee. Currently she is working on increasing awareness of racism in the Quaker and sectarian communities.
Vanessa has a calling to a ministry with a concern for helping the Religious Society of Friends become a whole blessed community. She travels throughout the country and abroad speaking on this topic and leading workshops about racism focusing on its eradication and the healing of racism’s wounds. She also meets with Quakers of Color throughout the world, many of whom are isolated members of their Quaker meetings in Canada and the United States of America.
Vanessa and Donna McDaniel are the authors of Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans and the Myth of Racial Justice that focuses on the relationship between African American Friends and non-Friends with Quakers of European descent from the 17th through 21st Centuries. She wrote the foreword for Margaret Hope Bacon’s pamphlet Sarah Mapps Douglass, Faithful Attender of Quaker Meeting, View from the Back Bench. Vanessa has published numerous articles and pamphlets on Quakers and racism including The Seed Cracked Open, Growing Beyond Racism.
She is Friends General Conference’s Coordinator for the Committee for Nurturing Ministries focusing on the Racism and Youth Ministries Programs, as well as a member of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. Vanessa is married, has three adult children, a son-in-law and two grandchildren. Vanessa enjoys crafting, knitting, sewing and photography.
PREPARATION: Please review these and other resources, recommended by Vanessa.
Full list of resources is posted at http://bit.ly/MYM2021suggestedresources contact the committee co-clerks.
The 2021 Midyear Meeting of IYMC will be convened over Zoom. A full schedule and registration information is coming soon; only registered Friends will receive the Zoom information.
Midyear Meeting co-clerks:
Jackie Leckband (Bear Creek) and Liz Oppenheimer (Laughing Waters)