Identity, Power, and Privilege Workshop

Description:

What does it mean to have privilege? How do your social identities (e.g., race, gender, class, religion, sexuality, etc) grant or deny you privilege? How do you know when you have it and when you don't? How can we use power and privilege to break the cycle of oppression? This workshop will explore these questions, offering participants an opportunity to delve deeply into their social identities by creating a Multiple Social Identity Profile - a process that reveals how we all have and lack privilege simultaneously. Participants will begin to uncover sources of bias that have been reinforced by an unrelenting cycle of socialization, develop skills for effective allyship, and learn how implementing even the smallest of steps toward equity, inclusion, and justice can transform an individual into an agent of change in their communities and profession.  This workshop is free and open to all CFAES faculty and staff (including postdocs). Light refreshments will be provided. Cap: 25 participants. 

Facilitator: Dr. Leo Taylor, Program Director for Equity and Inclusion, College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences