Doing Racial Justice in LGBTQ+ Communities (June 2023)

This workshop is for anyone who is committed to doing racial justice within LGBTQ+ communities: community leaders, service providers, white LGBTQ+ folks who want to do better, and LGBTQ+ folks of color who want to build strategies and solidarity.

This training will provide a multi-racial space for people working within queer and trans communities to explore racism and white supremacist culture within these communities. Using self-reflection and dialogic skills, we will draw from anti-racist activism and scholarship to examine our own positionalities and how we can move our communities close...Read morer to racial justice.

This is an interactive workshop, including small-group discussion in breakout rooms. Depending on the group, we hope to provide opportunities for racial affinity space in breakout rooms for those who want that. Less...

Target Audience

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Live Interactive Webinar

04:30 PM EDT - 06:00 PM EDT

EARN 0 CE Credit Hours

About the speakers

Romina Pacheco-Orelus, PhD

Trainer

Romina Pacheco (she/ella) is the Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at the Windward School. She is an educator who facilitates learning on issues of equity and social justice with professionals, students, and community members of all ages. She brings decades of experience in educational leadership including serving as an internal and external DEIB expert in K-12, higher ed and nonprofit settings. In her consulting work, Romina brings her personal experiences as an Afro-Latina immigrant, a parent, and a community organizer to help diverse teams build trust, belonging, and equity. Romina has a Ph.D. from New Mexico State University in Curriculum & Instruction and Women’s Studies, and an M.Ed. in Social Justice Education from UMass-Amherst.

Malú Machuca Rose, MA

Trainer

Malú Machuca Rose (they/elle) is a transfeminist scholar, organizer and cultural worker from Lima, Perú. They bring activism and teaching together with caring facilitation and a fierce, intersectional feminist pedagogy. Malú is a PhD student in the Department of Performance Studies and a Mellon Fellow in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University. Their research focuses on queer of color critique, particularly around questions of trans and queer death and survival, desire, nightlife, sex and risk, decoloniality, feminism, critical theory, performance, visual culture and healing justice. Malú earned their BA in Sociology from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perútheir and their MA in Gender and Women’s Studies from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Hillary Montague-Asp, MEd

Trainer

Hillary Montague-Asp (she/her) is a social justice educator and DEI practitioner focusing on self-reflection and implicit bias, fat justice, LGBTQ+ justice, racial justice and disability justice. She is PhD candidate in Social Justice Education at UMass Amherst, where she has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses on social justice in the US education system, ableism & disability justice, and intergroup dialogue. Hillary has worked at the UMass Stonewall Center for the past 10 years, where she supports student-led programs and events, facilitates support groups, oversees the Gender & Sexuality training programs, and provides support and advocacy to individual queer and trans students. Hillary has earned her B.A. in Women and Gender Studies and Sociology from the University of Colorado and her M.Ed. from UMass Amherst.

CE Information

CE Process Info

CE credit is not available for this session. Stay tuned for info about our upcoming training opportunities that do carry CE credits.