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Building on three decades of experience in the anti-racism field with dozens of organizations and institutions across the country, our trainings offer fresh, engaging, and timely resources for the demands of this challenging moment. Online tools can be done anywhere - in office or remotely.

As the racial justice events of 2020 unfolded, Dr. Tobin Miller Shearer was inundated with calls to provide training resources and consulting as groups began to take seriously the work of dismantling racism in their own institution. The BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) community around him has asked him to step up and offer guidance and training resources to support anti-racist change efforts in predominantly white institutions.

We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization as designated by the IRS.


The word “widerstand” - German for “resistance” - was chosen to honor our founder’s family history and to evoke the idea of a wider stand against racism, captured so beautifully in the logo developed by Liz Song Mandell. We also honor the anti-racist white caucus members who used the same name for our group in the late 1990s.

Mission Statement

In August 2020, our majority BIPOC board approved the following mission statement:

To provide anti-racism training and consultation to predominantly White institutions in both online and in person formats. At least fifty percent of all net funds raised will be donated to BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color)-led anti-racism groups.

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