How to Adjust Strategies to Address Stakeholders’ Lived Experiences.

People are feeling emotionally, physically, mentally and economically stretched right now. During times of crisis, our historically marginalized community members will often be negatively impacted the most.

This course will focus on how to understand what you and your stakeholders may be experiencing from a racial & economic lens, how to design strategies to best support your stakeholders, and how to maintain your commitments to equity and inclusion even during times of crisis.

Course Topics

• Social Identities

• Intersectionality

• Racial Equity

• Socioeconomic Status

• Belongingness

Learning Outcomes

• Initiate a personal and professional framework for consistent, ongoing racial equity work

• Understand the biology of bias and how white supremacy operates in organizations + institutions

• Recognize identities & intersectionality and how this impacts stakeholder experiences

• Personally connect with the concept of belongingness for ourselves and other stakeholders

• Identify research (and research gaps) about belongingness in schools, businesses, and organizations

• Identify opportunities to increase belonging for a continuum of stakeholders