Facilitations
I offer a variety of presentations, facilitations, and keynotes related to race, racism, implicit bias, microaggressions, social identity, discrimination, student affairs, fraternity & sorority life, and allyship. To explore my previous speaking engagements please see my CV. For more information or to make a request, please email me at
I look forward to working with you and your community!
Introduction to Identity
Learning Outcomes
Through this course, participants will be able to:
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Utilize appropriate terminology to describe identity groups as it relates to race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, national origin, religion, and ability
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Begin to unravel socialized beliefs about marginalized identity groups
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Identify historical and present-day power imbalances between target and agent identity groups
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Understand and recognize basic identity development strategies and explorations
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Interrogate the socialization that lends itself identity formation and negotiation
Implicit Bias
Learning Outcomes
Through this course, participants will be able to:
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Define implicit/unconscious bias and recognize its manifestations within social, professional, and academic environments
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Identify commonly held implicit biases related to race, class, national origin, gender, sexuality, religion, ability, and other social identities
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Use the Cycle of Socialization model to understand how biases are learned, reinforced, and reproduced
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Use the Cycle of Liberation model to empower oneself and others to challenge bias on internalized, interpersonal, and systemic levels
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Begin to interrogate one's own internalized biases in order to name, challenge, and change them
Introduction to Race & Racism
Learning Outcomes
Through this course, participants will be able to:
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Define racism as a system of power based on race
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Distinguish between race, ethnicity, and nationality
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Understand the history of racism and present day manifestations
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Identify the ways racism permeates a variety of systems and institutions
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Recognize and challenge implicit racism, microaggressions and colorblind ideology
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Begin to interrogate internalized racial biases in order to name, challenge, and change them
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Understand race not as biologically determined but as socially constructed
Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism
Learning Outcomes
Through this course, participants will be able to:
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Identify the distinctions between active racism, passive racism, interpersonal racism, and systemic racism
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Understand the pervasive nature of white supremacy, anti-Blackness, xenophobia, colorism, bigotry and other forms of ethno-racism
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Explore the variety of outcomes significantly correlated with race: housing, wealth, income, mortality, police violence, education, employment, incarceration, etc.
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Understand anti-racism not as a destination but as a constant practice
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Disarm oneself and others of the tools of defense that have been used against the work of anti-racism and replace them with tools of active accountability
Anti-Blackness
Learning Outcomes
Through this course, participants will be able to:
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Understand the historical role of the enslavement of Black people and colonization and genocide of Indigenous people that are foundational to our understanding of the founding of the United States
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Reject mythological and pathological explanations of stereotyped "Black" behaviors, as such explanations omit the role institutional structures play in affecting social, political, economic, and material outcomes
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Examine the phenomenon of racial and ethnic groups’ relationship to power given their proximity to Whiteness and perceived distance from Blackness
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Acknowledge the role of individuals, institutions, and systems in reinforcing and reproducing anti-Black racism
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Describe the connections between racial inequality and economic inequality
Power, Privilege, & Oppression
Learning Outcomes
Through this course, participants will be able to:
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Define social and personal identity groups
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Use the Matrix of Oppression Model to understand issues of power and oppression that deal with race, class, and gender
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Understand the implications of intersecting identity markers
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Self interrogate ways one is privileged and how one can actively leverage their privilege toward equity
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Identify, interrogate, and challenge systems of power and oppression
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Learn how privilege and oppression result in inequity in a variety of systems including wealth accumulation, education, civil rights, housing, health care, and citizenship
Active Allyship
Learning Outcomes
Through this course, participants will be able to:
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Feel empowered with knowledge and strategies necessary to know when and how to intervene in against marginalization
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Identify the differences between passive allyship, performative allyship, saviorship, and active allyship
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Understand the unique implications of intersecting identity markers
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Develop an eye for identifying oppression in its many forms, in others and in oneself, and holding oneself and others accountable
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Operate out of a growth mindset and embrace the many ways to identify how to consistently practice self introspection and active allyship
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Leverage one's positions of leadership and spheres of influence - no matter how big or small - to encourage others to do their own work toward active allyship
Race, Class, Gender, & Sexuality in Fraternity & Sorority Life
Learning Outcomes
Through this course, participants will be able to:
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Gain a greater understanding of the historical relationships between privilege, identity, bias, discrimination and fraternity/sorority life specifically as it relates to race, class, gender, and sexuality
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Become more familiar with each National Council/Umbrella organization
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Understand and honor the culturally based fraternal experience
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Acknowledge the discriminatory history of many fraternal organizations
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Recognize the impact of stereotype threat phenomenon
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Locate ways privilege, bias and, discrimination continue to permeate the fraternity/sorority experience
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Identify means to generate welcoming and affirmative spaces for all students who seek membership in fraternities and sororities