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.

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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).

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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. Additionally, local Friends have provided overnight hospitality to out-of-state participants and 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.”

For any further information, please contact alicia nance or Shaina Robinson.

**Disclaimer: On the Use of Titles

The Ministry on Racism acknowledges that the use of titles on our website reflects a complex tension within Quaker practice and values.

Our Practice

On Ministry on Racism pages, we strive to reference individuals in the way they prefer to be referenced. When someone has earned a doctoral degree, for example, and chooses to use that title, we honor that choice, understanding it may represent decades of work overcoming barriers that should never have existed. When someone prefers to be addressed without titles, we honor that choice as well.

We recognize this approach may not fully satisfy either those who see all titles as violations of Quaker testimony or those who see the rejection of titles as potentially dismissive of hard-won achievements. We invite Friends into continued discernment on this matter, always centering the dignity and self-determination of those whose names and identities we invoke.

The Ministry on Racism’s Approach

Remembering and using the name and form of address that individuals choose for themselves is a way of saying “I see, and respect, who you are and how you define your identity,” and can help restore dignity and self-worth. The Ministry on Racism recognizes that respecting how people wish to be addressed, including their choice to use or not use titles, is itself an act of honoring their dignity and self-determination.

Our commitment is to hold these tensions thoughtfully:

• Honoring the historical Quaker testimony against titles as a witness to equality
• Recognizing that for many people of color and women, earned titles represent hard-won achievements and tools of resistance against systemic oppression
• Respecting each individual’s right to determine how they wish to be addressed

The Historical Quaker Practice

Early Friends rejected the use of honorific titles such as Mr, Mrs, Lord, and Dr, understanding this practice as a testimony to equality before God. This refusal to use titles was not considered anti-authoritarian but rather a rebuke against human pretense and ego. This testimony emerged from the conviction that all people are equal in the eyes of God, and that earthly distinctions of rank should not be recognized in ways that elevate some above others.

Conflicting Perspectives Within the Religious Society of Friends

The question of whether to use titles remains a subject of ongoing discernment among Friends. Even Quaker institutions deeply committed to Friends’ testimonies navigate this tension in complex ways. For example, Earlham College uses academic titles and ranks “to be consistent with the practices of the academic world,” demonstrating how Quaker organizations continue to wrestle with how to honor both the testimony of equality and the realities of institutional participation in broader professional contexts.

Some Friends view the continued rejection of titles as essential to the testimonies of equality and simplicity. Others recognize that in contemporary contexts, the meaning and function of titles have evolved in ways that complicate this traditional practice.

The Experience of Women and People of Color

For people of color and women, who have historically faced systemic barriers in education and professional advancement, the use of earned titles represents a reclaiming of dignity and recognition of achievements that were long denied. Throughout history, these groups have utilized education and their professional credentials as tools to assert power, resist oppression, and transform not only their own lives but also the conditions of their communities.

Women and people of color in academic and professional settings continue to face discrimination, being held to different standards and having their competence questioned in ways that white men do not experience. In this context, the use of earned titles can serve as an affirmation of expertise and authority, countering ongoing patterns of marginalization and the presumption of incompetence.

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