About

Christine Saxman is the co-author of Being White Today: A Roadmap for a Positive Antiracist Life with Shelly Tochluk and the Western State Center’s Toolkit “Confronting Conspiracy Theories and Organized Bigotry at Home: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers” with Shelly Tochluk and Joanna Schroeder. Her racial justice work has been featured on NPR’s Life Kit.

A seasoned racial equity facilitator, coach, and consultant with twenty years of experience, she guides white people to transform into healthy antiracist change agents. She also co-facilitates interracially to help organizations to build cross-racial equity transformation into leadership. She brings particular skill to helping individuals and organizations achieve sustainable change that is both racially conscious and culturally relevant.

While leading Saxman Consulting, she stays true to her interracial commitments through partnerships with the National SEED Project (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity), the Race Institute for K-12 Educators, and the Interracial Transformation Collective, Ismalis Nuñez, Krischanna Roberson, and Nicole Shimizu who cultivate the power of identity in cross-racial relationships.

She came to racial and social justice work through the classroom, earning recognition as an Illinois Golden Apple Finalist and Teacher of Distinction. She holds a M.A. in English and a M.S. in Education from Northwestern University.

SAXMAN CONSULTING OFFERINGS

INTERRACIAL COFACILITATION

To support healthy multiracial organizations, Saxman Consulting co-creates professional learning spaces with facilitators of color to model the interracial skill development needed for organizations to meet their diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and accessibility (DEIJA) goals. Her partners include Ismalis Nuñez of Anew Collective Consulting, Krischanna Roberson of Collabovate Consulting, and Nicole Shimizu of Educational Impact Exchange.

COACHING

Sometimes, in racial equity work, people need to process personal history, organizational history, racial conflict, and/or racism in order to lead with racial consciousness. Individual coaching goals help people to engage in deep reflection in order to achieve transformation personally and professionally.

WHAT IS RACIAL EQUITY?: A FOUNDATIONAL SERIES

What Is Racial Equity? An Introduction: Provides organizations a foundational understanding of racial equity concepts in service of long-term DEIJA goals and metrics.

TRANSFORMATIVE SENIOR LEADERSHIP DEIJA SERIES

Supports leaders to integrate the DEIJA vision into the organization’s mission and strategy with a racially conscious adaptive leadership approach. Leaders receive feedback about whether their efforts are in alignment with current DEIJA expectations and standards.

CONFRONTING WHITE NATIONALIST RECRUITING

This series supports educators and administrators K-12 and at the college level to understand white nationalist recruiting and how to build the consciousness of our students to disrupt such recruiting efforts. It builds directly on the work in Western States Center toolkit: Confronting Conspiracy Theories and Organized Bigotry at Home.

BUILDING CULTURALLY RELEVANT, RACIALLY CONSCIOUS ORGANIZATIONS

To build relationships across differences, we must understand that difference exists. Organizations often project norms without realizing that other cultural ways of being exist within their employees’ experience. This series supports unearthing cultural differences, normalizing recognizing the relevance of those differences and the transformational power in hiring, retention, creativity, productivity and team-building that results.

STARTING AND SUSTAINING HEALTHY WHITE ACCOUNTABILITY/AFFINITY SPACES

This series will help you start or refresh your white accountability/affinity efforts with a focus on healthy interracial work and developing the skills of team members to facilitate these spaces on their own.

These efforts can be co-developed along with support for your People of Color affinity space to ensure the work supports a healthy multiracial organization.

OTHER OFFERINGS INCLUDE

Keynote Speaking on Being White Today: A Roadmap to a Positive Antiracist Life, TheTransformational Power of Building Racially Conscious, Culturally Relevant Work Cultures, Loving Accountability: White People in Antiracism and other customizable topics.
Custom-designed services and offerings