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Unlearning: The Well-Meaning Liberal
Note: Doors for this event will open at 7:00 PM.
Town Hall events are approximately 75 minutes long.
What happens when good intentions aren’t good enough?
Join Lindsey T. H. Jackson for the season finale of Unlearning Live, as they unpack the contradictions of the “well-meaning liberal” — a figure first called out by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957 for being sympathetic to “all sides,” and therefore not truly committing to idea of racial justice.
In this conversation, Lindsey is joined by social philosopher Joel Fariss and inclusive leadership expert Ruchika T. Malhotra. Together, they’ll move beyond surface-level allyship to explore the real tensions, history, and hard truths that often get ignored in the name of civility.
If you’re ready for an honest reckoning with what it takes to actually move the needle on equity — this is the conversation you don’t want to miss.
Lindsey T.H. Jackson is a North American-based leader serving humans around the world. As CEO at LTHJ Global, Lindsey empowers people, leaders, and organizations to pursue and achieve their full potential. For 15+ years Lindsey has been authentically leading empowering entities for personal and organizational wellness. Lindsey specializes in executive coaching using the Enneagram, group facilitation, DEI training and implementation, and team development.
Joel Fariss is a social philosopher, futurist, and burgeoning poet whose work aims to cultivate depth and circularity in the shallows of western culture’s linear leaning economy. In his cross-sector work, he practices “applied imagination” – a way of being, doing, and becoming that transcends disciplinary bounds – to conceive, incubate, and scale ideas conducive to an emergent future in which all life on earth exists in right relationship to both the parts and the whole of existence. Joel is a passionate champion of corporate heterodoxy and speaks globally about the critical role of human imagination and shared grief in shaping our collective future.
Ruchika T. Malhotra is the best-selling author of Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work. Her next book, Uncompete: Rejecting Competition to Unlock Success is out November 2025. Ruchika is also the founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy practice. A former international business journalist, Ruchika is a regular contributor to The New York Times and Harvard Business Review. She is a former adjunct in Communications at University of Washington and Seattle University.
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