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- Friday, March 13: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Saturday, March 14: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
- Sunday, March 15: 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM
GWI is excited to offer this opportunity to support you in becoming engaged as an ally and empowered as a partner in creating social equity!
About this Event
Over the course of the weekend, you will be invited to grapple with power, privilege and difference, develop a social equity practice you can integrate into your Good Work, and emerge with a clear framework to facilitate individual and organizational awareness of changes needed, ways to work toward change, and next steps to take. The workshop draws on a framework that has been offered to two cohorts of GWI Fellows and thousands of others over the past 20 years and honed by a dedicated team of facilitators, including the two who will guide the weekend. The experiences each of us brings to this workshop will be honored as we are invited to share our wisdom and gain from the wisdom of others — wherever we are on our lifelong learning journey towards achieving social equity.
Through readings before the workshop, and presentations, story sharing, discussions, exercises, and videos during the workshop, you will:
- Develop a deeper understanding of social equity through a personal identity lens
- Integrate a framework and common language for addressing issues of power, privilege, and difference
- Examine how institutional and individual practices maintain inequities among people and prevent us from achieving our full potential
- Build a community of learners committed to identifying and implementing practical strategies for creating collective change
Eduardo González, Jr. is a Cornell Certified Diversity Professional/Advanced Practitioner with over 25 years of experience working with a wide variety of not-for-profit and educational institutions to implement and sustain multicultural organizational development initiatives. A key area of his focus is assisting staff, managers, administrators and their respective organizations in developing the awareness and skills needed to support and/or provide leadership in organizational change efforts on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. He is the Cornell Cooperative Extension system-wide specialist for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and holds a Bachelor’s in Human Services and a Master’s in Public Administration from Pace University.
Maryellen Whittington-Couse directs a regional Migrant Education Program at SUNY New Paltz that serves the children of migrant farmworkers. She has been part of the Opening Doors anti-oppression facilitation team since 2001 that provides training nationally and internationally. She provides consultation and training to educational, medical, human services and community organizations on issues related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. She has a Master’s of International Administration from the School for International Training and is a Cornell Certified Diversity Professional.
Your registration fee includes the workshop, materials, and continental breakfasts, lunches, and snacks.
- Amount requested: $525 The requested registration fee reflects discounts made possible by the generous support of our donors. The full cost of the workshop is $800.
- Sliding scale: $275 – $800 If your current access to financial resources is limited, please consider paying less than the requested fee. If your current access to financial resources is ample, please consider paying more toward the full cost of the workshop and helping underwrite costs for fellow participants.
- Scholarships: If the low end of the sliding scale is still out of reach, we have a limited number of scholarships available. Apply here or email if you would like to speak to someone first.
- Donations: We welcome donations to help provide discounts and scholarships for Good Work Institute programs. Email if you would like more information before considering a donation.
