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  • Home
  • Meet Kathy
  • Events
  • Work With Kathy
    • Design & Facilitate Powerful EDI Workshops
    • References
    • Workshops
      • Foundations of Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice
      • Creating Inclusive, Socially Just Campus Environments
      • Deepening Multicultural Competencies: Strategies for Professional Development
      • Training of Trainers Program to Design and Facilitate Workshops on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
      • Developing a Team of Inclusion Practitioners
      • Facilitating Difficult Dialogues: Navigating Triggering Events
      • White Ally Development Program
  • Resources
    • Free Courses/Webinars
    • Blog
    • Radio Show
    • Books
      • Leading White Accountability Groups
      • In It For The Long Haul
      • …But I’m Not Racist
      • Turn The Tide
        • Book Worksheets
    • Access to our Facilitation and Design Knowledge Base
  • Contact
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  • Diversity

    5 Conversation Starters to Help a Leader Buy-In to Diversity & Inclusion in the Workplace

    March 21, 2018 /

    Creating a more inclusive work environment Q: What can you do if you are asked by your boss to create a more inclusive environment in your workplace, and while your boss is supportive, they just don’t fully buy in and don’t model the behaviors consistent with the environment that you’re trying to create? A: This is an ongoing conversation for future webinars, virtual institutes, and my Master Class for Inclusion Practitioners. Click here to learn more about this program and watch my events page to see what’s coming up next. Diversity in the workplace is paramount Have you been asked by a superior to organize a diversity initiative only to…

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    February 27, 2018

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    February 5, 2020
  • Diversity

    Interrupt Racism, The White Way Is Not The Only Way

    March 14, 2018 /

    As we grew up, most of us didn’t realize we were being educated to believe white is right. I was socialized as a college administrator in predominantly white organizations that reinforced white cultural practices as the right way – the only way – to serve students. I couldn’t see the forest for the trees – I told myself I wasn’t racist! I didn’t realize I was perpetuating the very system I was fighting against. It never occurred to me that the dances I coordinated or the training I designed and facilitated did not address the needs and issues of students of color. I simply perpetuated ideas and approaches that privileged whites had…

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    How to Use White/Whiteness Accountability Spaces to Begin Healing Your Racial Biases

    February 19, 2020

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    Teach More Effectively by Infusing Equity and Inclusion

    September 13, 2018
  • Microaggressions | microaggressions in the workplace, interrupt microaggressions
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    Microaggressions: Sounds Small But Hurts Big

    February 20, 2018 /

    You read the word “micro” and you may immediately judge that it must be something small. It may sound like nothing, but its impact is SOMETHING. Microagressions is a term Harvard University professor Chester M. Pierce originated in 1970 to name the insults he witnessed that were doled out regularly upon African Americans by those who were not black – in particular, by whites. As the old saying goes: the more things change, the more they stay the same. Decades have passed since then, but we’re still faced with microagressions and may not even realize it. It’s those everyday messages that come in the form of verbal or nonverbal slights,…

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    Disconnect Between Your Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Goals

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    June 5, 2018

    Design & Facilitation 101: Exploring White Privilege

    October 30, 2019
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    When TMI Happens at a Training on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

    January 16, 2019

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Leading White Accountability Groups

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In It For the Long Haul

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…But I’m Not Racist!

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