Select Trainings and Colloquia

Inclusive Culture Strategy: Creating More Inclusive Organizations (2023-present)

We know that diverse and inclusive organizations attract and retain talent, drive innovation, enhance overall performance, and contribute to the wellbeing of a society. Yet, each organization has their unique culture, which creates challenges and opportunities to successfully implement sustainable culture-change strategies. The Inclusive Culture Strategy Certificate and Inclusive Culture Strategy Certified Diversity Program (InCDP) was created to train others to use a culture-centric approach to foster equity, inclusion, and change. The programs equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and with toolkits to support or lead in designing, building, and sustaining inclusive organizational cultures. The programs draw on a wide-range of perspectives in business cultures, intercultural communication, systemic inequities, qualitative and quantitative research methods and change management. HRCI and SHRM Certified Program for Professional Development.

Recognizing and Remaking Everyday Interactions for Gender Inclusivity (2020-2021)

This five-part workshop series, which is grounded in theories of linguistic anthropology that advance diversity, inclusion, and social justice, provides tips and tools for recognizing and remaking everyday interactions with the goal of achieving greater gender-inclusivity. To do so, the workshops are structured to meet the following three goals: raise individuals’ awareness of (and ability to critically assess) their own language practices; connect these practices with the larger patterns as well as the structures of power and marginalization that they bring in to being; and provide individuals with the tools necessary to recognize and change these practices. Each individual workshop focuses on a specific aspect of everyday language-use and interaction that offer an opportunity to improve interpersonal interactions while also shifting larger systems of power and marginalization with the goal of creating greater gender-inclusivity. (Designed for Academic Audience)

Allyship Training Series (2020-2021)

As businesses take stances in support of social movements, like Black Lives Matter, they effectively position themselves as allies. Allies make the commitment and effort to recognize their privilege and work in solidarity with oppressed groups to enact change in the struggle for justice. This workshop series focuses on general and specific dimensions of allyship, a term that identifies the sets of practices that are undertaken in order to be an ally. Thoughtful and committed allyship can positively impact organizations in a number of ways, not only creating an environment that invites greater diversity and inclusion and employee engagement but also fostering positive images that can increase brand loyalty and achieve broader corporate social responsibility goals. Given the multitude of ways in which potential marginalization persists, and the varied contexts in which exclusion can take place, we can all practice allyship, and consider the role that improved allyship might play within our organizations as well as in wider society. (Designed for Business/Non-Profit Audience)

President’s Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) Women’s Research Colloquium (2021)

Created infrastructure for and organized first day-long virtual Women’s Research Colloquium at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). PCSW’s mission is to ensure that the University responds to the needs of women by removing inequities and providing a supportive educational, working and social environment for all members of the campus community. In line with this mission, the Women’s Research Colloquium is held annually to provide a forum in which CSULB scholars—faculty, staff, and students—can share research done by women and/or related to women’s issues and concerns.

Select Presentations

American Anthropological Association (AAA), Organization-Wide Webinar

Session Organizer & Speaker, March 2025. Session entitled “DEIB in the Balance.” Plenary speaker on the state of DEIB work in the United States and strategies for how to do DEIB centered work in a hostile political environment.

University of California Extension, San Diego DEIB Council Quarterly Meeting

Workshop Leader, September 2024. Workshop leader on political polarization as a DEIB issue and how to have better conversations across political and other forms of difference.

American Association of Medical Colleges Professional Development Conference

Plenary Speaker, July 2024. Plenary speaker on the importance of inclusion and belonging in advancing medical training, diversifying the medical profession, and advancing the delivery of care.

Annual National Diversity & Leadership Conference

Presenter, April  2024. Organizer and presenter of skills-based workshops and trainings for DEIB professionals on topics such as Allyship, DEIB strategy, and Inclusive Communication.

American Anthropological Association (AAA), Annual Meeting

Presenter and Session Organizer November 2023. Presenter in Session titled: “Framing Transitions Along Gender and Sexual Borders.” Paper titled: “A Right to Misgender? The Framing of Free Speech and Gender in Popular and Legal Discourses.” Organizer and Presenter in Workshop titled: “Connecting Ethnographic Methods, Culture, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Work in Organizations.”   

Southwestern Anthropological Association (SWAA), Annual Meeting

Presenter April 2023. Session title:“Political Activism.” Paper entitled: “Corporate Political Activism in the United States: Considering Responses to Anti-Abortion and Anti-LBGTQ+ Legislation”