In Class Action’s first five years, we reached more than 14,000 people in 25 states with our programs and resources. Here’s what they have to say about their experiences with Class Action:
Class Action’s work is not just academic. It is about people’s lives and how they are treated.
--- PJ Hoffman Core Circle Member St. Paul, Minnesota
Class Action brought such clarity and passion to the issues that people were able to make both intellectual and emotional discoveries about themselves and the world around them.
----Giavanna Munafo Associate Director for Training and Educational Program, Dartmouth College
Class Action provided a place to understand and be understood.
--- Sheri Cohen, workshop participant
I liked best sharing our class backgrounds and laughing together about things that would be much more hurtful alone.
---Mount Holyoke College Student
“… a good exploration of class and class issues with substantial data, discussion, interaction and facilitation. Great integration of ideas and discussion and action. I was impressed by the insight and empathy of the facilitator.”
---San Francisco Foundation Staff and Fellows
“You were great! Loved the sense of humor and frankness with such a weighty topic.”
---San Francisco Foundation Staff and Fellows
This is a valuable experience because it places you in a context and reveals the broad range of experience among those with whom you work every day. It challenges assumptions about people you work with.
--- Dartmouth College staff
“(Exploring Class) is excellent, very pragmatic and holds space for analysis, emotion, connection and reflection.”
---Zara
Space to speak about class issues (was most useful to me), talking about class as a common issue rather than addressing it as differences.
---Mount Holyoke College Student
Class Action workshops opened me to hidden biases I had about my class, my embarrassment, loneliness and the ways I have hidden from myself and others all my life. The workshops are a vigorous look at how our culture shapes us to stay within a small strata of culture, never admitting our isolation and prejudice that influence all our choices.
--- Portia Cornell, MA, MS Author of A Loss for Words, teacher & therapist
Hello friends, I am new to this web site. Here I am just one more person on the planet that has awakened from the stifling/crushing/demoralizing influences of a class-ridden society that forces people to think that its all fair and equal in our society today. Anyhow just want to say that finding this site on classism/class have saved me.
--- Jean, website visitor
Class Action workshops provide an incomparable opportunity to share real feelings about real fear around money.
---Andrea Walsh, Co-director, World Fellowship
One of the most eye-opening workshops I have ever taken. I look forward to working more with these extraordinary teachers in the future.
--- Margaret Lawrence Director of Programming Hopkins Center, Hanover, New Hampshire
Class Action established a safe, supportive atmosphere for meaningful and powerful learning to further dialogue on class and race. Reflecting on our own personal histories around issues of class and examining how class differences affect our students' success in school, they were able to engage, stimulate thought and reinvigorate our group.
---Nick Yaffee, Elementary School Principal
The Exploring Class workshop is excellent and very pragmatic. It holds space for analysis, emotion, connection and reflection.
---Activist, Exploring Class Workshop Participant, Bay Area
Mind blowing and just plain useful.
–-- workshop participant
