As a progressive professor at Wellesley College in the 1980s, Peggy McIntosh didn’t believe she benefitted from unearned white privilege until one night she started making a list. “I flicked on the light and I wrote it down. In the next three months, 46 examples came to me.”
That list became the groundbreaking article “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” and the foundation for The National SEED Project (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity), the organization she founded in 1987. Since then, SEED has trained thousands of teachers, impacting millions of students. Thank you, Peggy.