Chris Crass

Chris Crass

Chris Crass is a longtime organizer, educator, and writer working to build powerful working class-based, feminist, multiracial movements for collective liberation. He is a Unitarian Universalist and works with faith-based communities to help build up the spiritual Left.

Chris co-founded the anti-racist movement building center, the Catalyst Project, which combines political education and organizing support to develop and support anti-racist politics, leadership, and organizing in white communities and builds dynamic multiracial alliances locally and nationally. Through Catalyst Project, where he was the co-director for more then a decade, he worked with tens of thousands of activists working on a wide range of issues in their communities and on their campuses.
He joined with white anti-racist leaders around the country to help launch the national anti-racist network Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), which works in white communities for racial justice. Rooted in his Unitarian Universalist faith he works with congregations, seminaries, and religious and spiritual leaders to build up the Religious Left.

Crass's books are "Towards the "Other America": Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter and Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy.

From Chris Crass

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General Assembly 2021 A call to action to end white silence and a manual on how to do it...

Book | By Chris Crass

General Assembly 2021 This collection of essays is geared toward activists engaging with the dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for visionary systemic change...

Book | By Chris Crass

To become an anti-racist faith community, the key question for a white/white majority community is not “How do we get people of color to join our faith community?” It is, instead, “How can we make a prolonged, spiritually-rooted, engaged commitment to uprooting white supremacy within our...

Reading | By Chris Crass | May 9, 2016 | From WorshipWeb

A guide for fellow white anti-racism activists who are overwhelmed by stories about racist violence.

By Chris Crass | July 31, 2015 | From LeaderLab

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