The Elm

The Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion invites you to a free live webinar on "Social Class on Campus," led by Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington and Dr. Becky Martinez through PaperClip Communications. Through this offering, you will "gain crucial, actionable takeaways" to help you:

• Identify class barriers and challenges in your practice. 
• See the value of cultural wealth associated with diverse class backgrounds.
• Constructively engage in self-work. 
• Include class in your discussions and actions in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging efforts on your campus. 
• Understand the role that class has played in your life and professional experiences. 

This event will take place live on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. EDT. 

Register here.

For more information about the webinar, please click this link:

https://paper-clip.com/products/social-class-on-campus-january-18-2023?_pos=2&_sid=bf6e5c109&_ss=r 

Presenters:

Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington, pronouns he/him/his, is the president and founder of the Washington Consulting Group (WCG). WCG was named by the Economist as one of the Top 10 Global Diversity Consultants in the world. Washington has served as an educator, administrator, and consultant for over 38 years. He serves as an invited instructor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Lancaster Theological Seminary. He is the president and co-founder of the Social Justice Training Institute and a past president of the American College Personnel Association.

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Dr. Becky Martinez is a mixed-race, mixed-class Woman of Color and has learned to hold the dynamic of “the both/and” because of these identities. She is a proud aunt, friend, forever learner, person that likes to run, student of nature, fan of ice cream, and hopes to always be in process. As a consultant and trainer, Martinez strives to create space for critical reflection and learning to increase self-awareness and create sustainable change. Her work focuses on engaging individuals and groups to recognize systems of privilege and oppression for more inclusive and equitable policies, practices, norms, structures, and simply ways of being. She works with a range of groups within higher education and with nonprofit organizations. She is a member of the Social Justice Training Institute, a co-lead facilitator for LeaderShape, and a foundation board member with the American College Personnel Association. Raised in a working-class family and now identifying as a class straddler, Martinez deeply values digging deep into the complexity of social class and classism to create more equitable spaces with a class lens. While DEI-centered work is complex, complicated, and sometimes messy, it is also joyous, soulful, and liberating, and gets us closer to our humanity.

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