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Check out these upcoming events and programs with TCDIP! Please share this email within your organization.
Tomorrow is the last day to register for the Minnesota Racial Equity Challenge! Program starts March 12
Registration for our Minnesota Racial Equity Challenge closes tomorrow, March 3! By engaging in the Equity Challenge, participants will gain a better understanding of:
- how systems of oppression negatively affect the lives of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in this state, especially in regard to housing, employment, education, health care, and public safety
- concrete actions we can take to be allies to each other in order to mitigate the negative effects of racism in this state
- Readings and materials include Anton Treuer, Justice Sonya Sotomayor, Derecka Purnell, Layla Saad, Mariame Kaba, and more.
Over the course of six months, participants will explore readings, podcasts, and other materials. Participants will meet twice a month for a guided discussion to process the readings and materials. After completing the course, participants will be recognized publicly by TCDIP with our Minnesota Racial Equity Challenge Certification. This program is open to all Minnesota based legal professionals at TCDIP Member Organizations.
Ready to join? Visit our website to learn more about the program and register! Registration is due by March 3.
March 5, 12:00 PM: WILD Conversations: Addressing Community Safety with Sheila Nezhad from MPD 150
Sheila is a community organizer and proud nerd living in the Central neighborhood. She came into community organizing as a young queer fighting for LGBTQ liberation, and in the decade since she has been active in organizing for racial, social, and economic justice.
MPD150 is a community-based initiative challenging the narrative that police exist to protect and serve. MPD150 is a participatory, horizontally-organized effort by local organizers, researchers, artists, and activists to shift the discussion around police and policing in Minneapolis from one of procedural reforms to one of meaningful structural change. Our WILD Conversations are open to all. Register for our WILD Conversation on March 5!
Check out previous conversations with Erin Maye Quade, Nekima Levy Armstrong and our previous guests on our YouTube channel.
March 10, 4:00 PM: Sixth Annual Women of Color in the Law Forum: Lifting as we Climb
Join us on March 10 for the sixth annual Women of Color in the Law Forum: Lifting as We Climb (fully virtual this year, but no less lively). Join women lawyers of color, indigenous women lawyers and allies for an evening of camaraderie, community and real conversations about careers and professional life.
Featuring: a fireside chat with Shelley Carthen Watson, Senior Associate General Counsel at the University of Minnesota and recipient of the 2020 Woman of Power Award, and, as in years past, Discussion Circles. Thanks to Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. for serving as the lead sponsor and Minnesota Women Lawyers for partnering with us as a co-sponsor! This program is open to all. Register today!
March 23, 9:00 AM: Authentic Diversity: How to Build an Inclusive Workplace with Michelle Silverthorn
Our world has changed. The moment is here for real progress on diversity and inclusion, to take the transformed workplace and the transformed globe and create a new paradigm for equity and justice. The calls are loud. Are you ready to answer them?
Join Michelle Silverthorn in an engaging, interactive virtual program that will shift your understanding on the challenges for inclusion in the workplace, and take up her call to action for every individual to build spaces of authentic diversity for all.
During the program, you’ll develop a deeper understanding of:
- The central role unconscious bias and its attendant challenges, microaggressions, and stereotypes, play in interrupting our journey to inclusion.
- 10 rules to make inclusion a reality for everyone in an organization.
- How to design spaces of authenticity and belonging, where everyone is welcome to rise, thrive, and succeed.
This program is open to legal professionals at TCDIP Member Organizations. TCDIP will apply for CLE credit in Minnesota. Register today!
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