White people are moving into traditionally non-white neighborhoods claiming to want diversity. But what does that actually mean? Sherryl Weston offers a guide to newcomers on how to be good neighbors without destroying the current culture.
Sherryl Weston
About Sherryl Weston
Sherryl Weston holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Special Education from the University of Northern Colorado and a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Denver. Her primary interest in her first career was emotionally and behaviorally disordered latency age children and adolescents. She has spent many years in advocacy-oriented social work where she developed an interest in cultural competence issues. Counseling focus: sobriety coaching, domestic violence, relationships and depression. Training focus: the developmental process of becoming an ally, multicultural identity, internalized oppression, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue. Visit her blog, More Than Cultural Competency.