Vanessa Gonlin was raised to have a colorblind race perspective by her Black mother and white father. Now, she is challenging students to work together and recognize their differences transparently. As a Black biracial woman, Gonlin grew up in a âracially-tolerantâ suburb in Columbia, Maryland, where âthe idea of race didnât really matter,â she said. However, at a young age, Gonlin, now a University of Georgia assistant sociology professor, discerned the feeling of color evasiveness was wrong and couldnât understand why. âOn the surface it made sense that you shouldn't judge a person by their color, right, but it didn't make sense because we are impacted by how we look and how people treat us,â Gonlin said.