Transforming Privilege

Transforming Privilege LLC is a woman-owned company dedicated to providing resources and spaces for those learning about their own privilege, white supremacy and racism. We are committed to using that knowledge to do the necessary work in our lives to dismantle structures both institutional and personal in order to end systemic racism and othering of all kinds. Ending racism also requires the end of sexism, xenophobia, anti-semitism, homophobia, transphobia, ageism, and ableism. The path to our humanity is to see it in others. We recognize the violence of racism in all its forms and strive to open our minds to our own history and do better.

This is a diverse and inclusive community and one that rejects othering of all types. We strive to amplify the voices of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) and are creating a space where experts from many fields of study (social work, psychology, sociology, medicine, art, technology, history and more) can share their perspectives with those on the life-long journey of becoming actively anti-racist.

We're on this path together and we welcome all who are committed to a more just and equitable world for everyone. We are building community through radical self-examination, deep understanding and connection.

A note about financial accountability

Transforming Privilege has been creating free spaces for intensive anti-racism learning and support since 2018. We are committed to continue to offer these spaces as we believe they generate the greatest impact to active anti-racism behavior.
We (modestly) compensate all BIPOC coaches in these discussion groups and all BIPOC speakers in the Transformation in Action speaker series regardless of attendance. (White speakers are not compensated).
Any financial contribution or income received is directed to the priority of BIPOC compensation. Financial contributions are not tax deductible donations as Transforming Privilege is an LLC.
White staff members of Transforming Privilege are not financially compensated and consider their work a contribution to reparations: to create spaces where BIPOC teachers and voices can be elevated.

Transforming Privilege People

Wendy Apperson (she/her)

Co-Founder

Wendy started her anti-racism journey in 2018 after a string of school and mass shootings in the United States. As she learned more about the history of racism in the United States she discovered that her previous decade of studying and integrating learnings about relationship, intimacy, vulnerability and trust was preparing her to tackle the most important issue facing the United States: racism and white supremacy. "While anti-racism work isn't personal development work, we have to do personal development work to be actively anti-racist".

She invited friends and acquaintances to join her on her anti-racism journey. That initial group has turned into several groups and the friends have invited friends of their own, resulting in an ever-expanding community of people with a common goal. She is committed to being a lifelong student and supporting others in their active anti-racism journey.

Wendy has a BA in Psychology from Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA and is a business management consultant living in Seattle.

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Jaime Pharr (she/her)

Wendy Apperson (she/her)

Co-Founder

Jaime is a strategist for Transforming Privilege driving the focus of the site content and marketing messaging. She is also a lived experience coach with a talent for unwrapping the layers of privilege and racism in group discussion, specifically in issues around interracial relationships and parenting multiracial children. She

Co-Founder

She has a BA in the Humanities, French and International Business from Seattle University and an MBA in Global Management from Grenoble Ecole de Management in Grenoble, France.

Jaime lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.

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Ann Delgado (she/her)

Wendy Apperson (she/her)

Adanna Abakporo (she/her)

Coach in Residence

Ann is a coach of Transforming Privilege and of all the things she enjoys, she enjoys most bridging the gap between what is and what could be. Ann brings rich experience, not only personal, but professional with having worked in the criminal justice system for 20 years as a mental health counselor. You would not guess it

Coach in Residence

She has a MA in mental health counseling from Antioch University, Seattle.

Ann lives in the Bay Area of San Francisco with her daughter and granddaughter.

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Adanna Abakporo (she/her)

Angelina F. Gómez (she/her)

Adanna Abakporo (she/her)

Coach

Adanna was born and raised in Seattle, WA and is first-generation Nigerian-American/Black. She has a deep passion for equity, inclusion and social justice (specifically racial and disability justice) due to her personal and professional experiences.

Adanna has two siblings with disabilities - a younger brother who is Autistic and a y

Coach

Adanna has two siblings with disabilities - a younger brother who is Autistic and a younger sister with a Developmental Delay. Her professional experience for the past 11 years as a caregiver for her siblings and other individuals with disabilities, working as a program coordinator - implementing programs for young adults with disabilities from immigrant/refugee backgrounds, working as a job coach supporting transition-aged youth with disabilities and most recently as a case manager for DDA (Developmental Disabilities Administration). With her experiences and passion she continues to support her family, her community and other underserved communities. She currently works for a school district in Washington supporting schools in their equity journey.

Adanna launched Real Action, Real Change in August 2021. She works with individuals and organizations on their equity journey, specifically providing trainings/workshops on various topics about equity such as privilege, microaggressions, implicit bias, etc. and coaching on how to be an accomplice/co-conspirator. Her goal is that everyone has the opportunity to create an inclusive and equitable environment for all, especially those from underserved communities. Adanna empowers people to educate themselves and learn how to decolonize their minds and the system in order to create real change in our society.

Adanna graduated from the University of Washington with BA in Disability Studies and Social Welfare and a Master's in Social Work (MSW).

Real Action Real Change

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Angelina F. Gómez (she/her)

Coach

Angelina F. Gómez, MA is a holistic clinical scientist & abolitionist educator who specializes in compassion-based psychotherapeutic and community interventions for attachment & intergenerational trauma.

Using a self-directed combination of modern and indigenous healing methods, Angelina has learned how to thrive with severe mental i

Coach

Using a self-directed combination of modern and indigenous healing methods, Angelina has learned how to thrive with severe mental illness and trauma. As a white Indigenous Mexican-American who continually engages with her own racial healing, she aims to share and research her found healing path, in order to help others find their own paths to fulfillment, health, and collective freedom from white supremacy.

While completing her PhD in clinical psychology, Angelina founded North Node Organization whose mission is to help end racism by leading non-Black individuals and communities through a ruthlessly compassionate process of dismantling internalized white supremacy. Angelina developed a model of allyship healing and is leading Emobidied Antiracist Allyship workshops and courses in partnership with the Racial Trauma Center at Genesee Valley Psychology.

To feed her soul, Angelina loves to read, do yoga, crochet, journal, make art, listen to music, play with animals/humans, have deep thoughts/talks, and be in nature.

North Node Organization

Embodied Antiracist Allyship Workshops

Racial Trauma Center at Genesee Valley Psychology

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