Michelle Ami Reyes, PhD.
Kirsten Forester on October 13, 2021
Peace Talks Podcast
EPISODE 01.01
MICHELLE AMI REYES
BIO
Quotable
“We have to learn to say to tell ourselves, ‘I am not the standard,’ and to actually challenge ourselves to ask, ‘How much cultural discomfort am I willing to bear? How uncomfortable can I be for the sake of the gospel?'”
Resources
The Race-Wise Family: Ten Postures to Becoming Households of Healing and Hope by Helen Lee and Michelle Reyes
Becoming All Things: How Small Changes Lead to Lasting Connections Across Cultures and Becoming All Things Study Guide and Conversation Cards by Michelle Reyes
Transcript
Vanessa: Well, Michelle, we would love to start with the type of justice work that you are engaged in and specifically the parts of your own story that maybe brought you to this work in the first place.
Michelle: Sure. Yeah. You know, in my byline I call myself an activist — anyone that I know who believes in activism believes in the practical outworkings of justice on the streets of their community. Every person that I’ve talked to has experienced injustice in some deep and personal way that it just lit a fire under their bones. And the same is true for myself. From a very early age, I experienced racial bullying both verbally and physically. I just knew at age five, age six, that this was not the way the world should be…