Kari Points is a proud white dyke based in Durham, North Carolina (USA). She was raised working class in small-town southern Indiana.

For more than 30 years, Kari has organized globally and domestically for collective liberation. Her content expertise is in racial, gender and economic justice; reproductive and sexual health, rights and justice; and bringing healing justice to social change work. Her technical expertise extends across workshop design and facilitation using Southern-fried somatics and participatory methodologies, leadership coaching, public policy advocacy, organizational development and evaluation, partnership and coalition advising, and qualitative research and writing.

Kari created and facilitates the project We Are Finding Freedom, an experiential, somatics-based workshop series that explores intersection of white womanhood and white supremacy and trains white women and genderqueers to to address racism in white communities and show up constructively in people of color-led organizing. She is a board member of Showing Up for Racial Justice, a national organization that mobilizes white people for justice, moves them to reject racism and complicity, and supports them to join movements for change. Her latest initiative, Reckoning With Our Roots, coaches clients to explore their family history using a racial justice lens.

Prior to becoming a consultant, Kari advised on policy advocacy for women’s and girls’ access to safe abortion care for five years at Ipas, a global abortion access organization. In that role, she created and oversaw programs and conducted in-country research to improve the conditions for abortion law reform in Malawi, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Kari also represented Ipas at the United Nations and led the organization’s thinking on building effective coalitions and partnerships, in particular collaboration with nontraditional partners.

Early in her career, Kari worked for a year in Harare, Zimbabwe, with Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe, where she conducted a national campaign to improve LGBTQ access to primary and mental health care, designed and facilitated a series of cross-racial and cross-class dialogues, and partnered with South African organizations on LGBTQ health and human rights initiatives.

Kari holds a Masters in Public Policy with highest honors from Duke University, with a concentration in global women’s health policy, as well as a BA from Indiana University with highest honors in German Language and Literature and Cultural Anthropology.