An Introduction to Advancing Racial Justice in Organizations (Online) April 2025
Thu Apr 10, 2025 2:00 PM - Thu Apr 24, 2025 4:00 PM EDT
Online, Zoom
Description
Thank you for registering for Advancing Racial Justice in Organizations. If you need more information about the content and outcomes before registering, check out the workshop description here.
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Session Dates:
- Session 1: Thursday, April 10, 2pm-4pm EST
- Session 2: Thursday, April 17, 2pm - 4pm EST
- Session 3: Thursday, April 24, 2pm - 4pm EST
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Facilitators
Erika Strong
Erika Strong (they/she) is passionately committed to helping groups and organizations imagine and design internal systems and strategies that achieve measurable impact while building sustainable, supportive, and equitable work environments for their teams. Using a systems-based approach rooted in 15 years of experience working in community-based research and program planning, she envisions and implements blueprints and strategies for equitable and effective organizational design and management grounded in the realities of community inequities including white supremacy and patriarchy.
As a national anti-racist trainer, facilitator, and organizer, Erika’s past experiences have included work in civic technology managing organizational growth, team cohesion, and systems-based strategy as well as development work in campaign-led non-profits and program management in hunger action and restorative justice.
Erika is also a culinary artist, musician, and an enrolled member of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska. She holds a M.P.H. in community-oriented public health practice from the University of Washington School of Public Health and a B.A. in anthropology and a B.S. in public health from the University of Washington, Seattle.
Simone John
Simone John (she/her) is a seasoned equity consultant with deep roots in Boston, MA. Prior to joining IISC, Simone was TSNE’s Senior Director of Organizational Development. Simone spent five years at Trinity Boston Connects as the Associate Director of Organizational Equity Practice (OEP), a program that provides consulting, coaching, and facilitation for nonprofits striving to become racially equitable institutions. Simone has developed and trained curricula on topics including creating trauma inclusive organizational cultures, group facilitation with a racial equity lens, caucusing 101, and dismantling white supremacy culture in organizations, all scaffolded by three design principles: systems-thinking, relationship building, and trust. Outside work, Simone is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. Through documentary poetry, installations, images, and archival audio projects, her work surfaces and distills narratives that nourish and sustain Black folks. Learn more about Simone at simonejohn.com.
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Choosing your ticket type
- If you are individual who works in a grassroots organization or are otherwise affiliated with a racial justice group and you are paying for the workshop yourself, please select Grassroots*
- If you are an individual whose social or public sector organization will pay for your registration, please select Nonprofit.
- If you are an individual whose grantmaking or philanthropic organization will pay for your registration, select Foundation.
- If you are an individual whose social venture organization will pay for your registration, please select For-Profit/Social Venture.
*The number of these tickets is limited, so we invite those who are BIPOC, systematically marginalized or excluded, and have the highest level of financial need to register with this ticket type. If this is the only ticket type that works for you and it’s sold out, please sign-up for the waitlist and we’ll contact you if a spot becomes available.
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