Offerings

All can be modified to the group’s specific needs and event parameters (size, length).

This eleven-module self-paced course explores the challenges and opportunities of building authentic collaborations and relationships across race, culture, ethnicity, and class. Participants engage with learning resources and guided reflection to apply ten actionable “plays” that foster the 3Ls: Learning, Leadership, and Liberation.

The course is designed for individual reflection, providing a safe and structured space to uncover blind spots, challenge unhelpful cultural narratives, and address barriers that impede navigating difference. By examining privilege, harmful histories, and the influence of cultural norms and pseudo-science, participants will gain tools to dismantle bias, re-center marginalized perspectives, and contribute to systemic change.

Playbook tactics and lessons:

· Tactic One: Understand Privilege and Position—But Don’t Freeze

· Tactic Two: Reject Monoculture—Unlearn Minimizing and Ignoring

· Tactic Three: Eliminate Tone Policing and Stereotyping

· Tactic Four: Challenge Exoticism, Fascination, and Fetishization

· Tactic Five: Interrogate Power—Expand It

· Tactic Six: Retire the White Savior Approach

· Tactic Seven: Reject Tokenism

· Tactic Eight: Move Beyond Performativism, “Nice-ism,” and Virtue-Signaling

· Tactic Nine: Reclaim History, Culture, Geography, and Context

· Tactic Ten: Avoid the Trap of Over-Intellectualizing

This course explores the myths and realities of race and class in the U.S., beginning with the distinctions between race and class and the history of both Black and white wealth and poverty. We examine the economic barriers that have shaped inequality and trace a historical timeline of race/class conflation, capitalism, and social stratification, including the role of the Black church, political narratives, and cultural stereotypes. Internal debates within the Black community are highlighted, from the New Negro movement and HBCUs to contemporary clashes around respectability politics and cultural representation. The course also addresses binaries such as DuBois v. Washington, debates over art and authenticity, and tensions within Black leadership and community life. Finally, we analyze the limits of advancement through case studies of tokenism, colorism, affirmative action, and systemic exclusion, ending with questions of resistance, opting out, and reimagining equity.

Allyship cannot be self-claimed; it is conferred by those with whom you seek solidarity. This workshop encourages reflection on privilege, motivations, and building authentic collaborations across difference. Participants will explore how to move from values to accountable action during a period of backlash against diversity and inclusion.

This session examines over 22 types of privilege—ranging from race, gender, and sexuality to access to voting, autonomy, and safety—and their impact on relationships and community-building. Using the “staircase” framework, participants learn how privilege is multi-dimensional and influences the way we show up as collaborators, allies, and leaders.

Participants will identify subtle forms of microaggression, learn strategies to avoid defensiveness and deflection, and practice more constructive ways of fostering trust and mutuality. The session incorporates readings from Our Brave Foremothers and explores language, blind spots, and implicit bias, offering tools to strengthen relationships and inclusivity.

This interactive workshop introduces five tenets of belonging—being seen, connected, supported, proud, and mattering. Leaders and teams will explore practical strategies to minimize conflict, strengthen emotional intelligence, and clarify each member’s unique contributions, building more resilient and equitable organizations.

This workshop examines common phrases and cultural expressions that unintentionally exclude or perpetuate stereotypes. Participants will analyze the impact of such language, share personal examples, and explore new approaches to building unity and coalitions.

In this condensed session, participants will explore privilege, bias, and positional power through a guided “roll call of isms.” The workshop promotes reflection, personal growth, and actionable steps to move beyond performative allyship toward sustainable equity advocacy.

Drawing from Our Brave Foremothers, this presentation shares the inspiring stories of overlooked BIPOC women who embodied courage and resilience. Through these profiles, participants will reflect on untold histories and consider how to apply lessons of persistence and strength in their own lives and leadership.

Sample: Meet Ada Blackjack, unwittingly dubbed “the Female Robinson Crusoe” for her ability to survive a stranded winter above the Arctic Circle —alone— on an early 20th-century polar expedition gone horribly awry; learn about Martha Louise Morrow Foxx, the Mississippi-era educator who instilled excellence in her young Black American students, blindness—hers and theirs—notwithstanding; and hear the story of Florence Ebersole-Finch: few knew the quiet elderly neighbor had once stared down extreme danger as a WWII Filipina insurgent and spy. Our book reading event will also provide an opportunity to reflect upon and share about unheralded she-roes in your life, and the many ways you can emulate their bravery. (Women Profiled can be modified to suit your group's interests.)