We Need A Change
Team
Amanda is a white group therapist who has been committed to examining her own conditioning as a white, queer, cis woman for thirty years, while seeking to contribute to the call for radical white accountability and transformative racial justice in the imperfect, deeply meaningful decisions of every day life. As a life-long learner of faith traditions, spiritual resilience, and the impact of collective trauma and trauma healing, Amanda believes that inner work is imperative to ground the critical actions that lead to innovative, seismic social change. She leads trainings for people to explore the self in a social context, in order to fathom more deeply both oppression and belonging. The work of examining whiteness is to disrupt the historical narrative white people have learned, and join the fight for the dignity and safety of Black and brown people, who have been resisting and transcending the weight of whiteness for generations.
As an advanced doctoral candidate, an award recipient for excellence in teaching, and a psychoanalytically informed, body-focused psychotherapist, Amanda brings her passion for inquiry, integrity, and justice to the collaborative project of examining whiteness.
AMANDA YODER, Co-Founder
LCSW,CGP (she/her/hers)
Dominique Silva is an artist and philanthropist from the Washington DC area. He has made a name for himself in the field of creativity and design and has dedicated his life to doing his part in giving back to his community. Having to deal with his own instances of racial inequalities throughout his life, Dominique’s main focus is bringing different communities together for the betterment of future generations to come. Dominique has worked with various other non-profits, community projects, and organizations dedicated to giving back to less fortunate communities and minority groups.
Having an extensive network of associates, his role in EW is to find communities and groups in need for the organization to focus on giving back to. Dominique is a very outgoing member of EW and loves to make personal connections with everyone he meets. Even though Dominique has an extensive history in the field of art, his real gift is his ability to bring different groups and backgrounds together for a common purpose.
Dominique Silva, Director of New Projects
BS Digital Art and design (HE/HIS/HIM)
ANNE SLATER, Co-Founder
LCSW (she/her/hers)
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Anne is a white social worker, therapist, and pursuer of racial justice. She is humbled to walk alongside people to help them build relationships that are equitable and provide a sense of safety and belonging all humans need.
Anne's education and experience has been grounded in exploring family, community, cultural, and socio-political contexts to establish patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behavior. This process empowers us to choose what we want to carry forward and what we want to leave behind.
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One context that often goes ignored is whiteness. examining whiteness is a collaboration to create space for white people to confront internalized and systemic white supremacy. This process is vital to shedding racial constructs and healing racialized trauma.
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Outside of examining whiteness, Anne has a private therapy practice in Houston, TX. In addition to her professional self, she is a mother, wife, daughter, sister, and friend.
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