Faculty & Staff Book Club
A Commitment to Learning
Potomac's book club meets at least once a month to discuss issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion through the lens of some award-winning, thought-provoking reads. Since the club's inception in 2019, participants have learned and grown together while reading works such as Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist, Ijeoma Oluo's So You Want to Talk about Race, and Verna A. Myer's What If I Say the Wrong Thing? Ultimately, club members strive to apply what they learn to furthering DEI efforts at The Potomac School.
Winter 2023
The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World, by Jamil Zaki
Spring 2023
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone, by Brené Brown
Fall 2022
Admissions, by Kendra James
Spring 2022
Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World, by Cole Brown
Fall 2021
Allies - Real Talk About Showing Up, Screwing Up, and Trying Again, by Shakirah Bourne and Dana Alison Levy
Summer 2021
Start Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community, by Liz Kleinrock
Spring 2021
Our Time is Now, by Stacey Abrams
Summer 2020
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Summer 2020
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, by Dr. Joy DeGruy
Summer 2020
White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo
Spring 2020
Erasing Institutional Bias: How to Create Systemic Change for Organizational Inclusion, by Tiffany Jana and Ashley Diaz Mejias
Winter 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
Fall 2019
Waking Up White, by Debby Irving
Summer 2019
How To Be An Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
Spring 2019
What If I Say The Wrong Thing, by Verna A. Myer
