How can your organization build relationships and develop reciprocal community engagement practices that are rooted in equity? This workshop explores community engagement challenges and tips to overcome them and offers a refresher on embedding intersectionality throughout your work.
This workshop will cover:
- Developing safe, reciprocal relationships with equity-deserving communities
- Pathways to properly assess community needs & concerns and to work collectively to drive solutions
- How to apply intersectionality to engagement practices
Workshop leads: Diana Kamau (she/her)
Diana Kamau was born in Kenya and grew up hopping around the African continent, but now finds herself living on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded land of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. This positionality is embedded in every part of the work she does as she aims to centre a Decolonial and Anti-Oppression lens while building reciprocal relationships in her role at Women Transforming Cities and beyond.
Women Transforming Cities (WTC) is a grassroots Vancouver-based non-profit that seeks to dismantle intersecting systems of oppression to transform where we live into places of social, economic and political equity. They do this with an intersectional feminist lens through civic literacy and education, research, advocacy and collaboration. Become a member of WTC.
Accessibility
The event will take place virtually on Zoom. It will be in English with live closed captioning. If you have any other requests that will support your participation, please let us know by emailing us at monique@womentransformingcities.org.
We acknowledge that the event will take place virtually on the stolen, unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation).
