Intended Audience: This session is open to all SPH Faculty & Staff members and helps fulfill the required 8 DEI CPE hours. This session will be particularly useful for SPH community members who have attended Session #1: From Root to Reality: Understanding the Foundation of Racial Inequity and its Connection to Contemporary Conditions, or who are familiar with core concepts related to racism and anti-racism and are looking to learn more about racism’s relationship to other forms of inequity. Workshop Description: How can we be healthy if we cannot be whole? As humans we have multiple social identities seen and unseen that contribute to who we are and influence the power we hold to create change. In exploring our own identities and learning through relationships with others, we shift closer to the transformation we all deserve. As we make connections and build bridges, we learn that race is not a separate dimension but throughlines all aspects of society as historically rooted power imbalance. Any challenge to structural racism, also challenges relations of power within other forms of oppression that uphold this imbalance. This session will help participants: 1) understand the connections between race and other aspects of identity such as gender, class, sexuality, ability, etc., 2) explore race and racism’s connections to other aspects of identity and other systems of inequity, thereby building on Session #1 by further encouraging participants to explore their own identities to understand the power they have and 3) learn how cultural humility and relationship building across identities can be a key strategy for anti-racist practice and transformation.
SPH Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Leadership TeamIdentities, Intersectionality, and Interpersonal Exchange: Exploring Individual and Collective Power for Transformation, (Faculty/Staff Session)
Facilitated by Jannah Bierens
October 18, 2023
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online in Zoom
Sponsored by: SPH Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Leadership Team
Contact Information: SPH DEI Team, publichealthdeiworkshops@umich.edu
Counts towards DEI continuing professional education
Intended Audience: This session is open to all SPH Faculty & Staff members and helps fulfill the required 8 DEI CPE hours. This session will be particularly useful for SPH community members who have attended Session #1: From Root to Reality: Understanding the Foundation of Racial Inequity and its Connection to Contemporary Conditions, or who are familiar with core concepts related to racism and anti-racism and are looking to learn more about racism’s relationship to other forms of inequity. Workshop Description: How can we be healthy if we cannot be whole? As humans we have multiple social identities seen and unseen that contribute to who we are and influence the power we hold to create change. In exploring our own identities and learning through relationships with others, we shift closer to the transformation we all deserve. As we make connections and build bridges, we learn that race is not a separate dimension but throughlines all aspects of society as historically rooted power imbalance. Any challenge to structural racism, also challenges relations of power within other forms of oppression that uphold this imbalance. This session will help participants: 1) understand the connections between race and other aspects of identity such as gender, class, sexuality, ability, etc., 2) explore race and racism’s connections to other aspects of identity and other systems of inequity, thereby building on Session #1 by further encouraging participants to explore their own identities to understand the power they have and 3) learn how cultural humility and relationship building across identities can be a key strategy for anti-racist practice and transformation.
