Alice Sarti
Alice Sarti is a mother, writer, advocate and professional asker of challenging questions. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from NYU and a Master’s degree from Duke in postcolonial African and African-American literature. Alice has worked in a wide variety of roles including non-profit work for educational equity, arts in activism, equitable mental health access and the cultivation of challenging and compassionate white affinity spaces. After the murder of Jonathan Ferrell in 2013, Alice partnered with other artists in a collective based out of Greensboro, NC, called Artists4Justice, to leverage art in anti-racism direct action. One of the outcomes of that collaboration of artists and community leaders is Listening Sessions, launched in 2018. A unique event co-created & co-facilitated by poet and activist Lavinia Jackson, Listening Sessions invites white women to bear silent witness to the testimonies of Black women and then begin locating and reckoning with white supremacy in our own lives. She has collaborated to create caucus spaces and spark organizational change at IFC and CEF, non-profits combatting food and housing insecurity. Alice is also an award-winning poet who represented Durham, NC in the Individual World Poetry Slam. Her poetry collection, Psalms from the Psych Ward, is an unflinching examination of a grueling, year-long battle with postpartum bipolar depression. Today Alice considers her most important work to support and galvanize other white people moving into greater humanity through identifying and divesting from whiteness.
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