PoCC at the Crossroads

A Summary of Insights, Themes and Recommendations Addressing the PoCC Dilemma

June 1, 2006
Gene Batiste

Formal and informal feedback from the 2005 People of Color Conference (Dallas/Fort Worth) pointed to a substantial concern that the conference is not meeting the needs of people of color and that the conference has lost its original mission, becoming more of a diversity conference and less of a conference "by and for people of color." Others are of the opinion, contrariwise, that PoCC should move in the direction of a diversity conference, hence the "PoCC dilemma." Click on the link below to read the white paper detailing the circumstances behind the PoCC redesign.

06PoCCDilemmaWhitePaper [Acrobat PDF]