Mitigating Gender and Racial Bias: Intersectionality and Allyship

This Training will provide a comprehensive course on Mitigating Gender and Racial Bias: Intersectionality and Allyship. The training explores the impacts of gender and racial bias on youth, families, organizations and communities. It will consider the dominant narratives that further disparities in safety, education, physical and mental health, and opportunity for those who live at the intersections of discriminated identities such as gender, race, age, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Through an exploration of implicit bias, participants will recognize how internal and often hidden assumptions around gender and race will harm relationships and add further trauma and disconnection for youth and adults with intersectional identities.