Skills and tools to envision, adapt, and lead change

• Session 1: Thursday, April 10, 2PM - 4PM ET
• Session 2: Thursday, April 17, 2PM - 4PM ET
• Session 3: Thursday, April 24, 2PM - 4PM ET

(11 AM - 1 PM PT | 12 PM - 2 PM MT | 1 PM - 3 PM CT)

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Why This Matters Now

Now more than ever, change agents in organizations large and small need new tools and a fresh perspective to catalyze and sustain the work of racial justice. Whether you are already leading or want to lead racial justice work within your organization, ARJ will introduce essential skills and tools to move forward collaboratively with your colleagues.

Who Should Attend?

If …

• you are formally or informally leading racial justice work in your organization or network;
• you know that guiding your organization or network to move from commitment to action isn’t a solo act;
• you want to exchange ideas with other leaders who are advancing racial justice in and through their work;
• you want more tools for making your organization or network more collaborative, powerful, and even joyful;

… then this workshop is for you!

What You Will Learn

An Introduction to Advancing Racial Justice will equip you with frameworks and tools to design a collaborative process to guide your racial justice work. You’ll explore how to:

Session 1: Envision the Future
Articulate a vision for what racial justice and liberation could look like in your organization or network and begin to identify how the “who, what, why, and how” of your racial justice work can provide leverage for organizational change
Session 2: Frame your Collaborative Change Effort and Assess your Situation
Understand collaborative planning principles, a simple framework for developing a racial justice action plan, and guidelines to explore your context and current reality.
Session 3: Make the Case for Change
Practice communicating to stakeholders about the importance of your racial justice change process (a.k.a. sharing your “Case for Change”).

And, you’ll leave with a workbook full of useful tools and tips to support your ongoing collaboration for racial justice.

How You Will Learn

Each interactive session will feature:

• Brief presentations with practical examples
• Full group dialogue
• Paired and small group discussions
• After-session reflection questions and worksheets

Pricing

• $150/person (Grassroots)
• $300/person (Nonprofit)
• $380/person (Foundation)
• $450/person (For-Profit/Social Venture)

What Happens After the Workshop Series?

Post-series opportunities include:

• Workbook with additional resources and tools to explore on your own
• Free Quarterly Community of Practice gatherings (see more below!)

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

1. 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*
2. If you are an individual whose social or public sector organization will pay for your registration, please select Nonprofit.
3. If you are an individual whose grantmaking or philanthropic organization will pay for your registration, select Foundation.
4. 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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