ASU Event - Speakers added to the Trailblazing Equality series! - Multiple dates
TRAILBLAZING EQUALITY SPEAKER SERIES
The trailblazing equality workshop series creates emboldened, empowered individuals who are ready to put talk into action. Attendees will learn from each other and special guest speakers a set of tools and strategies that can be used to advance excellence. Have some fun on the trail! Each time you attend a workshop, you will be awarded a badge. Badges can be combined to earn a super-badge! Some workshops will also include certification. Attendance is required to earn the badges and certifications. If you're a faculty member, staff, university administrator, or are a member of the human race, this is the workshop for you!
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UPCOMING SPEAKERS
JANUARY 14, 2021 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. MST
Ecosystem Building and Interdisciplinary Collaboration with Cyndi Coon
Weave together human ecosystems from the many complex systems that emcompass all aspects of human communities integrating multiple factors such as economics, socio-political, technical, cultural, historical, psychological, and physical factors.
Cyndi Coon is a producer, writer, storyteller and rule-bender for good. She serves as the Chief of Staff at the Threatcasting Lab, a producer at ASURE (Applied Research Lab), Producing Director at the Weaponized Narrative Initiative and a special projects contractor for the office of the president at Arizona State University. She is a board member of the People Centered Internet, Volunteer Ecosystem Producer for the PCI Global Help Desk. She is the Founder and CEO of Laboratory5 Inc. Cyndi's role is to look at big wicked problems and insert opportunities for humans to collaborate.
FEBRUARY 18, 2021 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. MST
Reading and Writing Diversity Statements with Pardis Mahdavi
Search committees at colleges and universities nationwide increasingly require candidates applying for faculty or leadership positions to submit a diversity statement. And while we have begun to make this a requirement, frequently, search committees do not know how to evaluate this component of the application, and applicants do not know how to approach writing a diversity statement. In this workshop, we offer advice for search committees as they evaluate diversity statements and advice for candidates writing diversity statements. We lay out some of the “red flags” and “key frameworks” to look for when evaluating this significant part of applicants’ statements while offering roadmaps for those writing these important statements.
Pardis Mahdavi, PhD is currently Dean of Social Sciences and Director of the School for Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Before coming to Arizona, she was Acting Dean of the Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver (2017-2019), after spending eleven years at Pomona College from 2006-2017 where she most recently served as professor and chair of anthropology and director of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College as well as Dean of Women.