Minneapolis-born Sydney Olberg has a background in international and community development planning, program management and evaluation, Spanish language, and is a trained doula. Sydney is the COO The Good Peoples Group and The Center on Interracial Relationships. Her work in social change philanthropy and organizing led her to dig more deeply into white identity and privilege as a component of diversity work that is frequently under-examined. Her particular passion is working to understand how societal messages about white supremacy are internalized and played out in familial dysfunctional. In particular, she focuses on the way gender and race intersect and how that influences the roles we carry out in our families. She loves challenging herself and others to reflect on the way our identity impacts our interactions and how we move through the world and sees her work as a new doula as deeply connected to this conversation. She writes and particularly enjoys writing about influential women in her life how they’ve shaped who she is today.

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The Good Peoples Group and The Center on Interracial Relationships brings together historical context, mental and emotional health, and antiracist practice to change the narrative on interracial relationships.

The organization writes and speaks on the importance of identity development in our work to expand the definition of responsibility in interracial relationships as a way to address societal and political inequity. In order to have connection with others, it is essential that we must first be present and connected with our own experience of the world.

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