Julia Van Der Werf serves as Director of Training with GoCorps. She taught fourth and fifth grade for five years before founding a nonprofit ministry in 2001 in one of the largest public housing communities in Washington, D.C. There she worked alongside resident leaders to provide a community safe house for students after school and on weekends, where they received tutoring, mentoring, Bible study, and more. As she has become more aware of the impact of whiteness on systemic injustice in America, Julia has used her influence and gifts to help others understand dynamics of race, ethnicity, and culture and dismantle racism’s negative effects through Christ’s power.
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