Where Do We Go From Here? Cultivating Skills for Inclusion and Community Building While Disrupting Racial Injustice

Join the Division of Student Affairs on Thursday, June 25 and Friday, June 26 at 3:30 p.m., for ongoing dialogue and skill building toward inclusive excellence and disrupting racial injustice on our campus and beyond.

This mini-conference is open to faculty and staff. By selecting to participate, you will engage with colleagues on important topics and leave with an action plan to navigate the days ahead. While you will only be able to attend two sessions over the course of two days, each session will be recorded and will repeat in the fall semester. 

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Session 1 - June 25, 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Difficult Dialogues: Tools for Holding the Necessary Conversations with Your Family and Friends- This workshop will introduce and provide an opportunity to practice dialogue skills to help navigate difficult dialogues around race and other identities with family and friends. Participants will leave with skills around calling out, calling in, and apologizing.

Intended audience: Open to all UMBC staff and faculty

Facilitators:

Carlos Turcios, Coordinator, Campus Life's Mosaic, Interfaith and Pride Center

Ciara Christian, Graduate Assistant, Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs

 

Session 2 - June 25, 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. 

Understanding Your Agency: What You Can Do From Where You Are - A conversation about personal action, agency, influence, and power. This session will explore how you can use your personal power to impact the world around you. In addition to exploring resources and action steps, this session will take a close look at ways to get involved at UMBC and in Baltimore and Baltimore County. 

Intended Audience: Open to all UMBC staff and faculty

Facilitators: 

David Hoffman, Director, Center for Democracy and Civic Life

Eric Ford, Director, Choice Program

Romy Hübler, Assistant Director, Center for Democracy and Civic Life 

 

Session 3 - June 26, 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Healing and Restoration: Shared Processing and Community Building- A restorative conversation to process not only race and racism, but also the impacts of the global pandemic, anti-Asian rhetoric, and resilience. Participants will explore ways to rebuild and restore community while remaining in a virtual world. 

Intended audience: Open to all UMBC staff and faculty

Facilitators: 

Davonya Hall, Associate Director, Student Conduct and Community Standards

Mikhel Kushner, Title IX Coordinator, Office of Equity and Inclusion

 

Session 4 - June 26, 3:30 p.m.  – 5 p.m.

Understanding Your Whiteness: Exploring Active Allyship and Solidarity - A conversation about whiteness and how privilege and allyship can be activated on a daily basis. In addition to understanding privilege, this session will include a conversation around challenging "white tears" and channeling guilt into action. 

Intended audience: UMBC staff and faculty who identify as white

Facilitators: 

Alayna Berkowitz, Assistant Director of Outreach and Mental Health Promotion, Counseling Center

B. Ever Hannah, Training Coordinator, Office of Equity and Inclusion

 

Session 5 - June 26, 3:30 p.m.  – 5 p.m.

Tools for Navigating the Anger and Pain in the Daily Life of Systemic Racism- From anti-Blackness to anti-Asian discrimination, a conversation focused on processing the anger, pain, fear, and frustration that comes with facing daily aspects of systemic racism and interpersonal discrimination. Participants will leave with tools and skills to help them navigate and mitigate impacts of racial trauma. 

Intended audience: UMBC staff and faculty who identify as folks of color

Facilitators:

Soonhee Lee, Assistant Director/Training Director, Counseling Center

Whitney Hobson, Staff Psychologist/Multicultural Coordinator, Counseling Center

 

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