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Debby Irving

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Debby (Kittredge) Irving has worked since the 1980s to foster diversity, inclusiveness, and community-building. As general manager of Boston’s Dance Umbrella and later First Night, she developed both a passion for cross-cultural collaborations and an awareness of the complexities inherent in cross-cultural relationships. She has worked in public and private schools as a classroom teacher, board member, and parent. Her approach is to use authentic dialog to connect people through shared interests and divergent backgrounds. A graduate of the Winsor School in Boston, she holds a BA from Kenyon College and an MBA from Simmons College. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband bruce where they are raising two daughters and an assor ...more

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Debby Irving Debby Irving said: " I've read many books about the holocaust though none as complex and interwoven as The Storyteller. As Sage, the twenty-something protagonist, is forced to abandon her lifelong stance of dispassionate distance from her jewish heritage and the holocaus ...more "

 
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“If there’s a place for tolerance in racial healing, perhaps it has to do with tolerating my own feelings of discomfort that arise when a person, of any color, expresses emotion not welcome in the culture of niceness. It also has to do with tolerating my own feelings of shame, humiliation, regret, anger, and fear so I can engage, not run. For me, tolerance is not about others, it’s about accepting my own uncomfortable emotions as I adjust to a changing view of myself as imperfect and vulnerable. As human.”
Debby Irving, Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race

“Whiteness, it turns out, is but a pigment of the imagination.”
Debby Irving, Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race

“I’ve learned that when it comes to race, there’s no such thing as neutral: either I’m intentionally and strategically working against it, or I’m aiding and abetting the system.”
Debby Irving, Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race

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“If there’s a place for tolerance in racial healing, perhaps it has to do with tolerating my own feelings of discomfort that arise when a person, of any color, expresses emotion not welcome in the culture of niceness. It also has to do with tolerating my own feelings of shame, humiliation, regret, anger, and fear so I can engage, not run. For me, tolerance is not about others, it’s about accepting my own uncomfortable emotions as I adjust to a changing view of myself as imperfect and vulnerable. As human.”
Debby Irving, Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race

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