Kari Points is a white dyke who was raised working class and Christian in rural southern Indiana. Based in Durham, North Carolina, Kari is a Showing Up for Racial Justice board member and a liberation facilitator, coach, and policy advocate. As a senior policy advisor at Ipas, she provided technical support to coalitions in Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Malawi working to overturn colonial-era abortion laws. She also represented Ipas at the United Nations. As a consultant, she has worked with MoveOn, The National LGBTQ Task Force, Third Wave Fund, United for a Fair Economy and other clients on racial, gender and economic justice. She has a Master’s in Public Policy from Duke University, with a focus on global reproductive health policy. Kari believes white people can and must free ourselves from internalized white supremacy, build mutual interest with people of color, and organize for collective liberation.
Kari works with M Smith Consulting on the Affinity Group Project. Contact Kari at Kari.Points@gmail.com.