A Grounded Knowledge Panel is a public conversation by a small group of people who have realistic, authentic, and personal experience and understanding of a particular topic or question. While the Grounded Knowledge Panelists converse among themselves, the audience members (“witnesses” in the GKP model) observe the discussion, thus both groups — panelists and witnesses — bring a distinctive power and depth to the experience of speaking and listening. 

The Reading community is invited to witness our neighbors and friends discuss their Black experience in Reading.

Facilitator: Dr. Valerie Joseph, Smith College