“Anti-Blackness is the Fulcrum of White Supremacy”*: Anti-Blackness and Indigenous Erasure in Asian/American Communities In this workshop, there will be a learning and discussion component where we will start to unpack what it means to engage in anti-Blackness and Indigenous erasure in Asian/American communities and as professionals in Higher Ed. I will talk about our positionalities in relation to dominant culture and how we can utilize our positioning to disrupt anti-Blackness and marginalization. |
Building a Community of Collective Care: True radical healing “Caring for Myself is Not Self-Indulgence, it is Self-Preservation and That is an Act of Political Warfare"- Audre LordeIn this interactive workshop we will explore ways to no longer minimize ourselves when we are dealing with oppression on the daily. As well as how support each other when our community needs healing and creating authentic spaces for each other. This will be a mixture of storytelling, and sharing lessons learned through personal journeys of being authentic. We will discuss tangible ways to engage in community of care and how to sustain yourself through your journey |
Life After the PhD Attempt: Learning When It’s OK to Walk Away and How to Lift Your Head Up High Again In this workshop, Jeanette will share her personal experiences attempting to earn a PhD and the more important lesson in gaining the strength to walk away from an abusive program with dignity. Attendees can expect to have their anxieties about graduate school met with the knowing nod while working through some of the oppressions we face in higher education through some targeted theatre of the oppressed exercises and balancing breathe work. There is hope after a failed attempt and there are support systems all around us. You are not alone if you feel like you are struggling. |
Presidents of Color: The Tea, Struggles, Realities and Triumphs This workshop / panel will discuss the paths that each President took in achieving their goals of serving as President. In addition, these paths discussed will provide guidance and a frank conversation to staff and faculty who aspire to administrative roles (Dean, VP, President). The hope is the stories and discussion presented will provide a realistic understanding of the Executive role as a person for color as the pipeline continues to grow for individuals of color seeking these transformative opportunities. |
Strengthening Practice: Flexing our Positionality as Educators of Color As staff, faculty and administrators of color, we often find ourselves grappling with racial equity issues, concerns, developments and challenges on our campuses. How do we use our respective positionality to be strategic and impactful to support students with marginalized identities? This session will integrate the capacities, skills sets and community cultural wealth (Yosso, 2012) of faculty and staff of color as they work with case scenarios/problems of practice to strengthen practice and contribute to institutional transformation. |
The Blueprint – Our survival skills are the keys to success Our institutions force us to strip away parts of our identity and values in order to fit their model of success. However, we have a life’s history of surviving. Our trauma-personal, communal and/or generational has given us valuable tools for success. We just need to access it. Learn how to use your life experiences and innate skills to help you successfully move up and through the system. |
Your Brain on Diversity Workshop will introduce participants to the physical process and science behind the way our brain functions in the four steps of perceiving and responding to the world around us. Participants will experience demonstrations to help them understand the impact of culture and social norms on the process. Participants will also learn how to use tools that will increase their own understanding of daily interpersonal interactions. |
Creative Resistance Through poetry, stories, paintings and/or collages, we will create a visual representation of the resiliency & experience of faculty and staff of color at predominantly white institutions with the intent to heal, reflect and bring forth a collective narrative of strength. |
Scaffolding Support for Students of Color in Higher Education Our male students of color are not reflected or represented in our higher education faculty. Students need their haven, their safe space to de-stress, and their unabashed ability to be real with each other and with faculty and staff of color they can trust at their college. Luedke* refers to “person first, student second” as an essential importance of staff and administrators of color to holistically value the background and authentic relationships that support students’ success in higher education. This session is a conversation and an opportunity to share what we do as faculty and staff of color at our institutions to acknowledge, to disrupt and to coach our students of color who are marginalized, treated inequitably and suffer micro and macro aggressions. If you are uncomfortable, challenged, frustrated, stretched-thin, and tired then (1) you’re in good company (2) you’re doing necessary work and (3) you’ll gain a deeper understanding from our collective strategies to better support your students of color. |
Successes and Limitations of Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Councils, Taskforces, or Advisory Boards This session provides a forum for those who have participated on or who would like to improve the effectiveness of their campus-wide DEI entities (e.g., diversity and equity councils or advisory boards). The presenters will share their experiences as co-chairs of the Green River Diversity & Equity Council (GDEC), and we will also share the results of a survey to assess DEI entities on other campuses (as distinct from Multicultural Student Services offices as well as from Chief Diversity & Equity Officers). |
Theater of the Oppressed The workshop will be 80% experiential and 20% reflective. No prior theater or performance experience is required. The workshop is structured to introduce action and experiential techniques from the Theater of the Oppressed repertoire, so that participants can begin to apply them as tools in a practice of personal and collective liberation. Participants will be taught how to observe, analyze, challenge and transform oppression and oppressive practices at the individual and interpersonal, institutional, levels, using a spectrum of techniques, exercises, and specific tools from Theater of the Oppressed. Theater of the Oppressed (TO) is a collection of games, techniques, exercises for using theater as a vehicle for personal and social change. Based on the radical ideas of Paolo Freire and Augusto Boal, it is a collective artistic exploration into the fullest expression of human dignity, potential and creativity. |
Who Belongs In Wakanda? | Reflections on the African Diaspora in America What does it mean to be African? What does it mean to be Black? How do we exchange experiences? What connects us? Can Black folks ever truly “go home”? Please join us as we reflect on the hit film Black Panther and the ways it has highlighted our own stories of friendship, healing and connection around this meaningful and unique community conversation. |
WOCHNLEAD Women of Color Healing, Navigation, Leadership, Exploration, and Development is a workshop that will address the following questions: What is my Racial Trauma Language? How does my own personal family racial heritage/history play a role in how we are impacted by racial trauma? What has our “Cousin Fannie’s Daddy’s Sistah’s people” taught us about dealing with our generational racial trauma patterns and possibly teaching us maladaptive strategies. How does our mind, body, and spirit show up for ourselves and our own personal, professional, and organizational relationships during racial trauma? How do I contribute to the way people treat me as a racial being? What can I do to to progress on my racial trauma journey? How can my racial trauma journey hinder me from achieving the purpose I was placed here on this earth? How do I walk through racial trauma and still lead within my institutions? |
Assessing and Strengthening the Collective Power of Faculty of Color What might be the unrealized power of (tenured) faculty of color within the WA community college system? We often rightly focus on the unaddressed needs of faculty and staff of color, including racial disparities, inequitable professional development opportunities, microaggressions, and retention. While acknowledging those realities, this session instead focuses on the individual and collective authority of faculty of color, which may be under-written by credentials, tenure, and union protection (AFT and WEA), appointed or elected positions, as well as by collegial relations and other recognized institutional responsibilities. |
Black Wall Street's Founder, O.W. Gurley O.W. Gurley and the genesis of Black Wall Street. Black Entrepreneurship was a way out of sharecropping and Jim Crow era dependency off of the white establishment and systematic financial oppression. O.W. Gurley understood African-Americans had no opportunity to financially advance in the United States unless we used the same advantages as the whites. |
Building Your Toolkit: Navigating Higher Education as Graduate Students of Color Some graduate degree programs, specifically Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) programs, have the expectation for students to work full-time while participating in school full-time. This expectation is met with many challenges, including the tension of roles and identities such as performing well academically, advancing professionally, and ensuring role continuity at a personal and social level (parent, partner, etc.). This workshop will provide prospective graduate students of color with an inside view of the life of a doctoral student while working working full-time. The workshop hopes to spark initial interest to pursue more education, whether it is by curiosity, a need to feel more challenged, or a step to advance professionally. We hope to create a pipeline for faculty and staff of color who are already working in higher education to pursue further education to continue their professional development. |
When Love Isn’t Enough: The Ethics of Transracial Adoptions and What it Could Teach Us About Equity, Racial Identity Development, and Social Justice By discussing TRA and the foster care system, a parallel will be made to our own lives and experiences and to that of our students. We will learn to recognize how trauma affects us and those around us and how to respond to it. Acknowledging the prevalence of trauma in our lives and that of our students is crucial. The desire is for our discussions to lead to a better understanding of the toxic stress that can come from experiencing trauma and thus learn how to best address it. Lessons can be drawn that will help us create a classroom that can support trauma informed pedagogy and empower our students to develop their voices and advocate for themselves while facing institutionalized oppression and structural inequities. Finally, this workshop hopes to help challenge the notion that we all simply inherit or “get” our racial identity from our parents. A space will be provided for participants to cultivate their self-identification in dialogue with others. Thus, preparing to engage others, specifically our students, in similar type discussions. |
Nipsey Hussle: The Game Changer I will be talking about the life of Nipsey Hussle and his grind to not only grow in an area that was meant for him to be grounded, but also how his grind in his work gave back to his community as he grew in talent and popularity. He has demonstrated building capacities by becoming the humbled leader he was, especially as a Black man in America. He knew how to navigate the street life along with his accomplishments. Though he grew and prospered, he would always be by his community side. Threw the understanding of who this man was, there is a clear connection of learning from him on how to maneuver, as individuals, but especially for Black and brown folks. In this case, as people who work in the education system and have to deal with micro and macro aggression, systematic racism, and more. This will guide us to learn to trust one another, grow together, and to learn how to give opportunities to people of color when the world has shut its doors. |
Building Inner Resilience The purpose of this workshop is to build personal capacity by giving faculty and staff practical techniques to de-stress. This workshop will explore the connection between the breath and state of mind, with particular focus on how breathing techniques and meditation can increase our inner resources for resiliency and strength. This workshop will also cover how to start a community of practice at people’s college, to build a culture of intentionality and self-reflection. |
Making Self-Care Practical In the workshop, I will give people opportunities to ask questions about my own journey, especially since they will have heard me as a keynote. It is really important to me as a leader to be vulnerable and transparent beyond a Keynote. However, we will also do some goal setting around self-care. Participants will leave with goals for self-care in the areas of spirit, mind and body. Come prepared to be inspired and challenged. |
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