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About John Gentile:
John Gentile currently serves as the Co-Director of the Office for Identity, Culture and Institutional Equity at the Horace Mann 
School. He is a nationally recognized equity and inclusion practitioner specializing on whiteness, white identity development, and white privilege. He has led workshops, facilitated dialogues and affinity groups, trained faculty, and has been featured as a keynote speaker. He has presented at the Critical Analysis of Race in Learning and Education (CARLE) Institute and the Immigrant Justice Corps in New York City. He has worked with the YWCA of the City of New York as a facilitator around identity development. He is a co-founder of the conference, (Re)defining Power: White Male Voices in Diversity Work, a space for 6th to 12th grade white males students wanting to explore their role in equity and justice work. He is a founding faculty member of the National Diversity Practitioners Institute (NDPI). He has been a faculty member for the National Association of Independent Schools' Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC) since 2009. He was the recipient of The Princeton Prize for Race Relations in 2007. He is a graduate with honors from Eugene Lang College at The New School in New York City. He currently serves on the New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS) Diversity Committee. O
riginally from Washington D.C., he now calls Brooklyn home.
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