The White Privilege Conference (WPC) was established and is organized by African American professor, Dr. Eddie Moore Jr., who created this space to provide a challenging, collaborative, and comprehensive experience. The conference empowers and equips individuals to work for equity and justice through self and social transformation.
The annual WPC serves as an opportunity to examine and explore difficult issues related to white privilege, white supremacy, and oppression. WPC provides a forum for critical discussions about diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, antiracism, multicultural education and leadership, social justice, race/racism, sexual orientation, gender relations, religion, and other systems of privilege and oppression.
The White Privilege Conference (WPC27)
April 22-25, 2026 | Seattle, Washington
Registration information coming soon!
The 27th annual White Privilege Conference will take place at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Seattle Airport. This year’s theme is Strength. Courage. Wisdom.—inspired by India.Arie’s song of the same name.
Quaker-affiliated* registrants will be eligible for a discount ($100/person off the registration fee) through Friends General Conference (FGC) by completing the pre-registration form above. By completing the pre-registration form, you will have the opportunity to connect with the Quaker community present at the conference. Once you have pre-registered with FGC, you must register with the White Privilege Conference here (link to be provided when registration opens).
Once registration opens, check back here for details on registering through FGC for the group discount and connecting with the Quaker community at the conference.
*Please note: “Quaker-affiliated” can mean many things and doesn’t require you to be a Quaker to apply! You can be associated with a Quaker program (ex., Quaker Voluntary Service Fellow); staff/student at a Friends School or historically Quaker educational institution (ex., Bryn Mawr, Earlham, Guilford, Haverford, Swarthmore, UPenn); or employed by a Quaker organization (ex., AFSC, FCE, FCNL, FGC, QVS).
Friends General Conference and the White Privilege Conference have been connected since 2011, when FGC first sponsored a group discount for the conference. In the past, FGC and local Friends have provided a space at the conference for Quaker worship and worship sharing daily. In addition, local Friends have provided overnight hospitality to out-of-state participants, as well as arranged carpools to and from the hotel each day.
It has been important for Quakers to attend the White Privilege Conference. Starting with roughly 68 Quakers attending in 2011, Friends General Conference has maintained attendance of 45-500 Quakers each year. After attending the conference, many Quaker attendees shared in evaluations the joys of WPC in connecting with people of all ethnicities and ages, the variety of resources provided to carry anti-racism work forward, and the empowerment that comes from the conference’s large attendance and community energy.
Our Quaker attenders write that from the WPC they bring back new knowledge and energy to the racial justice work of their local Quaker Meeting. Attenders have also highlighted how meaningful it feels for FGC to show its support for anti-oppression work, and that they feel the White Privilege Conference is a place where they are empowered by “Quakers coming together in a public ministry around anti-racism.”
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Building Diversity in our Spiritual Body: A Quaker’s Reflection on Participating in the White Privilege Conference
Building Diversity in our Spiritual Body: A Quaker’s Reflection on Participating in the White Privilege Conference
By Joan Broadfield
Consultation for Friends who have attended the White Privilege Conference
September 27th – September 29th, 2013, twenty-two friends gathered at Dunrovin Christian Brothers Retreat Center in Minnesota for a consultation on the impact of attending the White Privilege Conference, an event concevied and organized by an African American man, with support from FGC.
Quaker Discussion During WPC15 Accountability Session
WPC has committed to becoming a “community of action” with the goal that every participant will take their conference learning beyond the walls of the program classrooms and back into our own home environments by way of meaningful action. To do this, each conference program of the WPC ultimately has an intentional action component.
Quakers’ Reflections on the 2013 White Privilege Conference
The 2013 White Privilege Conference took place in Seattle with more than 40 Friends and 2,100 people total attending. This was the fourth year FGC has sponsored a group of Friends attending.
How attending WPC 2012 affected a Quaker living in Kansas
When I attended the FGC conference in Grinnell, I learned that FGC was encouraging Quakers to participate in the White Privilege Conference. So I attended the 13th White Privilege Conference in spring, 2012. It was like going into a lively, open city where everyone was talking about all aspects of privilege.