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Kyana Wheeler is a Black woman with extensive experience in anti-racist curriculum development, training, facilitation and racial caucusing. She is an accomplished race relations facilitator and has actively engaged in moving the City of Seattle’s Race and Social Justice Initiative forward over the last 10 years. With an M.Ed in Educational Leadership and an MPA in Policy Development, Kyana is skilled in implementing systemic change within a large, complex government structure and embedding institutional practices that create space for conversations about race and racism. Kyana is a proven consensus builder and is adept in developing partnership between leadership and staff. She has coached, trained and motivated staff to build skill and create capacity in increasing effectiveness in challenging racial inequity.
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Fran Partridge is a white woman with 20 years of racial equity experience, specifically in instructional leadership, educational practices and educational policy change. Most of Fran’s work has been within the educational system, as a teacher, school age child care director, instructional coach and mentor, as well as an equity and race relations specialist. She has facilitated over 250 professional development sessions focused on historical and systemic racism, implicit bias, racial identity, micro-aggressions and culturally responsive instruction. Fran is co-founder of Racial Equity Consultants LLC and has experience co-developing strategic planning for racial equity work; analyzing data, assessment tools, providing guidance, as well as designing and facilitating high quality culturally responsive professional development based on adult learning principles. She holds a Master’s Degree in Educational Policy and Administration (M.Ed.).
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Racial Identity Caucusing with Racial Equity Consultants
Toward the end of an excellent and intensive day of learning and self-examination, we will have to opportunity to work through our feelings and perspectives with passionate anti-racism advocates. Kyana Wheeler and Fran Partridge will guide us through a process called caucusing, while creating safe spaces for both POC-identified and white folks to process the things we have noticed and felt during our journey. Some background: "Racial identity in the United States is not shaped in a neutral environment. The identities of People of Color form in response to racial oppression, and the identities of Whites form in response to racial superiority. These two identity dynamics manifest in a complex range of attitudes and behaviors that support and perpetuate the racist paradigm in this country. In order to work together to dismantle individual, institutional, and cultural racism, People of Color and Whites must understand how these identity dynamics operate in specific settings, and devise strategies to overcome the barriers and oppression that are created by them. People of Color work as a racially mixed group struggling together to understand and confront the effects of internalized racist oppression and to experience themselves as an anti-racist People of Color collective working together to dismantle racism. The White team members also meet in caucus to deal with issues of internalized superiority and to build an anti-racist White collective working together and with POC to dismantle racism. When the two caucus groups come back together as a team they are better able to understand, confront, and dismantle racism within the team itself and within the institutional setting that it is working. Caucusing creates a foundation upon which to build concrete organizing strategies for People of Color and Whites to work together as anti-racist allies." Crossroads ministry
Toward the end of an excellent and intensive day of learning and self-examination, we will have to opportunity to work through our feelings and perspectives with passionate anti-racism advocates. Kyana Wheeler and Fran Partridge will guide us through a process called caucusing, while creating safe spaces for both POC-identified and white folks to process the things we have noticed and felt during our journey. Some background: "Racial identity in the United States is not shaped in a neutral environment. The identities of People of Color form in response to racial oppression, and the identities of Whites form in response to racial superiority. These two identity dynamics manifest in a complex range of attitudes and behaviors that support and perpetuate the racist paradigm in this country. In order to work together to dismantle individual, institutional, and cultural racism, People of Color and Whites must understand how these identity dynamics operate in specific settings, and devise strategies to overcome the barriers and oppression that are created by them. People of Color work as a racially mixed group struggling together to understand and confront the effects of internalized racist oppression and to experience themselves as an anti-racist People of Color collective working together to dismantle racism. The White team members also meet in caucus to deal with issues of internalized superiority and to build an anti-racist White collective working together and with POC to dismantle racism. When the two caucus groups come back together as a team they are better able to understand, confront, and dismantle racism within the team itself and within the institutional setting that it is working. Caucusing creates a foundation upon which to build concrete organizing strategies for People of Color and Whites to work together as anti-racist allies." Crossroads ministry
Scholarship Opportunities
Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors we are usually able to offer 1-2 scholarships to attend this event.
The scholarship is open to all applicants who also work with expectant or new families.
We encourage you to apply if you would not otherwise be able to attend the conference.
All scholarship applications are due by September 1 and applicants will be notified by September 15th.
The scholarship is open to all applicants who also work with expectant or new families.
We encourage you to apply if you would not otherwise be able to attend the conference.
All scholarship applications are due by September 1 and applicants will be notified by September 15th.
Contact Us
Hosted in joint collaboration by PALS Doulas and NAPS Doulas
This is a conference for birth doulas, postpartum doulas, and other birth professionals to learn and strengthen our skills. Join us for a day of connecting with each other and learning to better serve our clients and our peers
If you are interested in donating towards the scholarship fund,
please click here or contact us at nwdoulaconference@gmail.com
This is a conference for birth doulas, postpartum doulas, and other birth professionals to learn and strengthen our skills. Join us for a day of connecting with each other and learning to better serve our clients and our peers
If you are interested in donating towards the scholarship fund,
please click here or contact us at nwdoulaconference@gmail.com
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nwdoulaconference@gmail.com
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206.725.2765
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2524 16th Ave S, # 207B
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