​ About WFR
​Vision of Washtenaw Faces Race:
WFR sees the existence of an intentionally inclusive community built upon a declaration of positive engagement and collective action, operating across all lines of difference to achieve democratic equity and racial justice.
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Mission of Washtenaw Faces Race:
To ensure that Washtenaw County and its environs will strive  to promote racial justice, by addressing,  in perpetuity, the issue of racism within each of the following eleven major institutions through which it operates: Housing/Demographics, Economics/Wealth Accumulation, Law enforcement/Judiciary, Health care, Education, Politics, Culture, Transportation/Mobility, Agriculture/Food Access,  Religion, and the Military – and simultaneously to promote racial justice on four primary levels of social activity: Personal (attitudes/beliefs), Relational (interpersonal interactions with others), Cultural, and Institutional.

Goals of Washtenaw Faces Race:
  • Create, together with the larger community, self-perpetuating institutions designed to address and replace the existing structures of embedded racial hierarchy.
  • Identify and assemble community leaders and organizations who are well-positioned to promote racial equity and to assist in this new institution-building process.
  • Act via our spirit and personal commitment, as an inspirational well - force to motivate others towards the vision of a just and equitable society.
  • Increase residents’ knowledge, establish a common analysis of racism, develop leaders and their skills, put race into the forefront of the consciousness of residents, and work with community organizations in a peer network.
  • Focus on the structural system of white advantage developed historically and reinforced Institutionally, Ideologically, and Culturally.

To volunteer or learn more, please send us an email at: WFacesRace@gmail.com. ​


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Thank you so much for joining us!  Your input and participation made this an outstanding conference! If you missed it you can see it on the Ypsilanti District Library's Facebook Live recordings.

Day 1 Facebook Live Recording
​Day 2 Facebook Live Recording​​
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically exposed inequities caused by long-standing racism in the United States, revealing that the need for change is more urgent than ever.  
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Join us in a free, virtual, two-day community conversation as we imagine a world free of racism and explore what must be done to create this future. Experts will talk about the fundamental changes needed in the institutions of policing, work, health care, and the commons, with interludes by local musicians, poets, and artists. We’ll conclude with a visioning session for all.
 Organized by Washtenaw Faces Race, Washtenaw County, Michigan and the  Ypsilanti District Library, Ypsilanti, Michigan. 
 - Additional Sponsors - 
​​This project is also funded in part by Michigan Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Join us!