Workshops + Trainings
Helping all students succeed
A non-exhaustive list of skill-building sessions and inclusive leadership modules that I have designed and facilitated for a variety of student, faculty, and administrative audiences.
Consider this a guide to help you think through what topics your audience might be most receptive to and in need of.
The fee for a single workshop is $2,000. For the pricing structure of a training series, contact me.
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Faculty
Engaging First-Generation, Low-Income, and Underrepresented Students in the Classroom
Over the last 15 years, successful college access efforts across the nation have changed the undergraduate student body. In this workshop, faculty participants learn ways to ensure that the classroom - a space where students of all backgrounds converge – remains a genuinely welcoming and inclusive environment.
Each participant will receive a copy of The Educators’ Toolkit, featuring ways to render visible the “hidden curriculum” of the classroom, and of college-going, more generally.
Creating Inclusive STEM Classrooms
While colleges and universities currently accept more first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented minority students than ever before, STEM curricula have yet to adapt to the changing demographics of today’s college classrooms.
Workshop participants learn pedagogical techniques that better engage students and decrease attrition in the STEM fields.
Mentorship, Teaching, and Identity/ies
While female and minority faculty members often take on the majority of mentorship in a given department, student evaluations disproportionately skew against them. This workshop cultivates a supportive community for female faculty of color interested in exploring how identity shapes the classroom experience for themselves and their students.
Faculty will leave with research-driven best practices to help them feel more empowered and valued as a teacher, mentor, and scholar.
Graduate Students
Navigating and Managing Advising Relationships
In graduate school, your relationship with your advisor is key to shaping your professional future. Workshop participants will learn how to set realistic expectations for the advising relationship, how to troubleshoot awkward moments, and most importantly how to assemble a broad academic and professional advising “team” to rely on throughout their graduate career.
Academic Conferences 101
Attending and presenting at academic conferences are an important part of your professionalization, but departments rarely discuss the many unknowns. Come learn more about the goals and purposes of conference-going, how to identify the most useful academic conferences in your field, and best practices when preparing for and participating in conferences.
Classism, Identities, and Allyship in Graduate School
This interactive workshop helps graduate participants develop a working toolkit to navigate relationships in diverse academic and professional environments, such as departments, graduate programs, and the scholarly community at large. It provides information about useful campus resources, recommendations for immediate solutions, and suggestions for becoming more effective allies.
Undergraduate Students
A Relationship-Centered Approach to Being a College Student
You’re in college to get good grades and nab a great job after graduation, right? Wrong! Going to college provides us with important but overlooked opportunities to get to know peers, faculty, and staff who will play a crucial role in our life.
In this workshop, participants will consider their needs as whole individuals, learn best practices for relationship-building, and start nurturing an extensive network of personal, professional, and academic mentors in the years to come.
Practicing Self-Advocacy
Black Lives Matter. #metoo. Title IX. Recent events on college campuses and throughout our country force us to reflect on the nature of power and hierarchy. What do you do when a system, an institution, or an individual robs you of your power? How can you, how should you, react in those situations, especially when the power imbalance is not tipped in your favor?
Workshop participants will learn how to navigate challenging situations as well as when, how, and why to use key University resources in the process.
Cultural Competence versus Cultural Humility
While for many years the attainment of “cultural competence” was seen as desirable, today’s world demands that we instead develop and practice “cultural humility.” Workshop participants will explore the concept of cultural humility and learn best practices for demonstrating cultural humility in their own lives.
High School Students
Building Self-Confidence, Practicing Self-Compassion
Although we once believed that building self-esteem was the only way to improve self-confidence, research now suggests that practicing self-compassion serves as a healthier means of increasing adolescent confidence. In this workshop, students learn strategies for developing self-compassion, consider how they can extend compassion to others in their daily lives, and generate a script for positive, nurturing self-talk.
Handling Stress, Anxiety, and Toxic Self-Criticism
In this workshop, students learn tools for dealing with setbacks, managing destructive feelings, and thwarting cultural messages about perfectionism that may lead to toxic self-criticism. By instead learning how to handle setbacks, students develop strategies for emotional resilience that strengthen their capacity for personal growth.
Speak Up! Deference, Obedience, and Authority in the Classroom
As early as high school, adolescent girls begin to academically outperform their male peers, yet many also experience difficulty reconciling gendered expectations about girls’ proper behavior in the classroom. To effectively respond to implicit gendered expectations, students learn best practices for communicating confidently, managing conflict, and setting boundaries.