Design and Facilitate Workshops, Meetings and Retreats
A few examples:
Southern Poverty Law Center JEDI Working Group, Operationalizing Racial Justice, September 2021. United Way of Central Maryland, Board Meeting, Presentation on Racial Equity, September 2020. Consumer Health Foundation, Washington D.C. – partnered with Brigette Rouson, Rouson Associates Co-facilitated half day workshop at the Annual Board and Staff Retreat to gain a shared understanding of racial equity concepts and framework. Institute for Community Peace, Washington D.C. Facilitated staff retreat (day and half) focus on work plans, benchmarks and timeline. Montgomery County School System (MD) Study Circles Program Designed and facilitated two half-day meetings to discuss program alignment in the context of structural racism analysis of the achievement gap. City of Lynchburg VA – Many Voices-One Community Initiative – Facilitated with Leslie King, Director of Many Voices-One Community Initiative A one-day workshop designed to reflect on efforts to date, discuss next steps in building a community where all groups have equitable access to opportunity and race is not a predictor of success. 
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Everyday Democracy – Co-facilitated with Roberto Chene
Designed and co-facilitated a workshop on racial equity for Strong Starts for Children, a New Mexico-based initiative to help communities work together for the success of all children. Education Equity Consultants, St. Louis MO A day and a half meeting to discuss the needs and issues of graduates and school districts involved with the Leadership and Racism program. The Leadership and Racism program is an opportunity to discover, dissect and deploy practices that eliminate oppression and maximize the potential of a diverse workforce. The training is a four-day overnight retreat focused on self-exploration with two days of follow-up training. Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) Joint-Ops Session on Race, Power and Equity Co-designed two-day meeting agenda with resident leaders, partner organizations, AECF consultants and staff of the Making Connections Initiative. The objectives of the session were to: increase participants’ understanding of the different levels of racism, and identify skills, knowledge, and support needed for each site team to address race, power and privilege issues. Facilitated one of the Making Connections’ sites discussion. Synthesized themes and provided recommendations to AECF to build the sites’ capacity to address racial inequities. |
Past Work Experience
Director of the Dismantling Racism Program, National Conference for Community Justice (NCCJ), St. Louis, MO, 1995-1999
Co-developed and managed seven, six-day residential Dismantling Racism Institutes with 190 graduates. Included supervising a six-month faculty planning process, interviewing participants, and compiling five separate institute manuals. The Dismantling Racism Institute provided participants with the skills, conceptual foundation, and experiences to be community advocates for racial equity. The Dismantling Racism Institute was selected as one of seven innovative programs in the Intergroup Relations in the United States: Seven Promising Practices, funded by the Ford Foundation.
Co-designed and coordinated a dozen Building an Inclusive Community one-day community workshops in St. Louis MO for over 1,000 residents, which included supervising 12 to 25 volunteer facilitators for each workshop. Building an Inclusive Community workshops were a one-day community workshop with the focus on: understanding individual biases and prejudices, messages we learned growing up, and the complexities of institutional racism and privilege. Each participant creates a personal action plan to build an inclusive community. Seventy-two percent of evaluation respondents said they used what they learned in the workshop in personal, work-related and/or community situations.
Developed and implemented 17 five-session dialogue groups on race for more than 170 participants, including coordinating and co-designing a 12-hour training program for dialogue group facilitators. The purpose of the dialogue groups is to create a more respectful inclusive community by increasing awareness to the issues of racism, improve communication and cooperation, and to build relationships across race.
Director of the Dismantling Racism Program, National Conference for Community Justice (NCCJ), St. Louis, MO, 1995-1999
Co-developed and managed seven, six-day residential Dismantling Racism Institutes with 190 graduates. Included supervising a six-month faculty planning process, interviewing participants, and compiling five separate institute manuals. The Dismantling Racism Institute provided participants with the skills, conceptual foundation, and experiences to be community advocates for racial equity. The Dismantling Racism Institute was selected as one of seven innovative programs in the Intergroup Relations in the United States: Seven Promising Practices, funded by the Ford Foundation.
Co-designed and coordinated a dozen Building an Inclusive Community one-day community workshops in St. Louis MO for over 1,000 residents, which included supervising 12 to 25 volunteer facilitators for each workshop. Building an Inclusive Community workshops were a one-day community workshop with the focus on: understanding individual biases and prejudices, messages we learned growing up, and the complexities of institutional racism and privilege. Each participant creates a personal action plan to build an inclusive community. Seventy-two percent of evaluation respondents said they used what they learned in the workshop in personal, work-related and/or community situations.
Developed and implemented 17 five-session dialogue groups on race for more than 170 participants, including coordinating and co-designing a 12-hour training program for dialogue group facilitators. The purpose of the dialogue groups is to create a more respectful inclusive community by increasing awareness to the issues of racism, improve communication and cooperation, and to build relationships across race.