Intro to Panelist: MICAH (Caucasian, Appalachia/Irish Roots)
Channel: Chats with Ellice, Counselor and Coach
Date: 11/06/2020

In this video, Micah introduces himself and shares his story of experiences of social racial development in his family and geographies, political/cultural racial experience in his work, as well as social experiences of rejection based on his race when he dated and was in an interracial relationship with an black/African American woman. This is his introduction, as a panelist, in Counseling Care Circle's project, "Catholic Christian Friends for Intersectional Racial Healing". He is a featured panelist as an expert of his own experiences and narrative. 

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