Training and Consulting

 

I provide training and consultation focused on transformative social justice education, anti-racism, and promoting relational empathy, solidarity, and equity across differences in privilege and oppression. I work primarily with academic, education, mental health, and other non-profit community organizations.

Faculty Development and Transformative Education:

Workshops and training packages to advance effective teaching and pedagogy of diversity courses, integrate diversity across the curriculum, create effective community and communication for advancing learning in social justice courses. For faculty and other educators.

Recent offerings:

  • Transformative Education Foundations: Emotional and Relational Processes for Effective Social Justice Teaching
  • Creating Community: Strategies for Promoting Transformative Education throughout the Semester
  • Promoting Productive Conflict and Conversations across Differences
  • Relational and Emotional Strategies for Addressing Resistance in Teaching Race and Oppression
  • Early Strategies for Promoting Authentic Community to Advance Transformative Education

Promoting Asian American Well-Being and Justice:

Trainings, workshops, and consultations to address anti-Asian bias and hate, organizational bias against Asian Americans, Asian American stereotypes. For university services (e.g. counseling, advising); community and professional organizations; students/student groups; community dialogues.

Recent offerings:

  • The nature and effects of anti-Asian racism: Not just COVID-19
  • Costs of “invisible” racism for Asian American students: Racialization as the forever alien model minority

Promoting and Developing Anti-Racist Community:

Trainings, workshops, and consultations to support the wellbeing and success of people of color and the development of allies and accomplices. For educators and academic units (e.g. advising, counseling); students; community organizations and community discussions. 
Provide support, coaching, and problem solving for faculty, students, and staff of color and allies/accomplices seeking to advance anti-racism and social justice. 

Recent offerings:

  • Responding to micro (and not so micro) aggressions
  • Strategic responses to racism in the academy
  • Becoming and fostering allies and accomplices
  • Developing foundations for authentic conversations across differences
  • Understanding racism 101
  • Understanding power, privilege, and oppresion

Promoting Organizational Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion:

Workshops and tailored consultation packages aimed at increasing diversity, inclusion, and social justice responsiveness in organizations, programs, and departments. Focuses on interpersonal and climate assessment, relational process, and action planning to shift practices, accountability, and relationships to advance JEDI goals and/or address identified conflicts and process issues.

Professor

Promoting and Developing Anti-Racist Community:

  •  Boston University
  • Cambridge School of Weston
  • Clark University
  • Kennesaw State University
  • Lexington Public Schools
  • Massachusetts Coalition Suicide Prevention
  • New York University
  • Northshore Community College
  • Tufts University
  • Union for Concerned Scientists
  • University of California Riverside
  • University of Vermont