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Mark your calendars, the Center for Culture, Equity, and Empowerment and the Leadership Education and Development Office (with the support of many amazing UL partners) are teaming together to bring our community, the first ever Diversity Leadership Summit on Saturday, March 4th from 10:00am-4:00pm in Merten Hall.The Diversity Leadership Summit positions the campus community to come together in various ways to learn, collaborate, and teach about social justice issues that impact our campus, our local communities and beyond. This summit will help to build capacity to have critical dialogue, expand consciousness of self and others, and create liberating and equitable practices, all of which increases student leadership development. The Diversity Leadership Summit will be a place where we will engage in narrative change work by uplifting and centering various sites of knowledge, voices, and experiences, including the ways knowledge is embodied. We empower our students, faculty, and staff to leverage not only their research but also their lived experiences, ideas, and insights to tell more inclusive and complex stories of the past, present, and future of our campus and communities.
This year’s Diversity Leadership Summit will take place on Saturday, March 4th from 10:00am-4:00pm on the Fairfax Campus in the Merten Hall.The Diversity Leadership Summit positions the campus community to come together in various ways to learn, collaborate, and teach about social justice issues that impact our campus, our local communities and beyond. This summit will help to build capacity to have critical dialogue, expand consciousness of self and others, and create liberating and equitable practices, all of which increases student leadership development. The Diversity Leadership Summit will be a place where we will engage in narrative change work by uplifting and centering various sites of knowledge, voices, and experiences, including the ways knowledge is embodied. We empower our students, faculty, and staff to leverage not only their research but also their lived experiences, ideas, and insights to tell more inclusive and complex stories of the past, present, and future of our campus and communities.
As a result of participating in the 2023 Mason Leadership Summit, attendees will:
- Explore their identities and culture and deconstruct its impact on how they make meaning and behave.
- Identify the ways our collective socialization processes inform our identities and recognize that within all of our dominant, marginalized and subordinated excellence, we share a rich, diverse history of our thoughts, voices, contributions, and lived experiences that strengthen our community and the world
- Build emotional intelligence and capacity to engage in cross-cultural with empathy and vulnerability, around various social justice issues that impact our campus, local communities, and beyond
- Describe at least one specific action they can take to promote positive social change at the individual, relationship, community or societal level
- Challenge the boundaries of your comfortability when interacting within and across communities and generate steps to develop meaningful and authentic relationships
To register for this year's Diversity Leadership Summit visit: https://cglink.me/2d7/r1980413. The deadline to register is has been extended to February 28, 2023.
Call for Programs
If you are interested in facilitating a breakout session for students at this year's Diversity Leadership Summit please submit a proposal online, visit: https://forms.office.com/r/QWEYjiXy8m. Anyone is able to submit a proposal, you don’t have to be a researcher you can share about your lived experiences. The deadline to submit summit proposals is: February 17, 2023.
The Diversity Leadership Summit positions the campus community to come together in various ways to learn, collaborate, and teach about social justice issues that impact our campus, our local communities and beyond. This summit will help to build capacity to have critical dialogue, expand consciousness of self and others, and create liberating and equitable practices, all of which increases student leadership development. The Diversity Leadership Summit will be a place where we will engage in narrative change work by uplifting and centering various sites of knowledge, voices, and experiences, including the ways knowledge is embodied. We empower our students, faculty, and staff to leverage not only their research but also their lived experiences, ideas, and insights to tell more inclusive and complex stories of the past, present, and future of our campus and communities.
As a result of participating in the Summit, attendees will:
- Explore their identities and culture and deconstruct its impact on how they make meaning and behave.
- Identify the ways our collective socialization processes inform our identities and recognize that within all of our dominant, marginalized and subordinated excellence, we share a rich, diverse history of our thoughts, voices, contributions, and lived experiences that strengthen our community and the world
- Build emotional intelligence and capacity to engage in cross-cultural with empathy and vulnerability, around various social justice issues that impact our campus, local communities, and beyond
- Describe at least one specific action they can take to promote positive social change at the individual, relationship, community or societal level
- Challenge the boundaries of your comfortability when interacting within and across communities and generate steps to develop meaningful and authentic relationships
The deadline to submit summit proposals is February 17, 2023. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact a member from our Call for Programs Team:
- Tamara Washington, Director, Center for Culture, Equity, and Empowerment (twashi3@gmu.edu)
- Caroline Simpson, Coordinator for Contemporary Students, Contemporary Student Services (csimpso@gmu.edu)
Proposals should be submitted below through this form by 11:59 PM EST on Friday, February 17th 2023. Proposals will be will be reviewed by a team, representing various identities and educational backgrounds. All individuals who submit a proposal will receive a confirmation of their submission and follow up from the Diversity Leadership Summit Planning Committee after the deadline and review. You will receive a response from the our Call for Programs Team regarding your proposal submission o later than February 22, 2023.
Registration
Registration for the 2023 Diversity Leadership Summit will be conducted via Mason 360.
To register for this year's Diversity Leadership Summit visit: https://cglink.me/2d7/r1980413. The deadline to register is has been extended to February 28, 2023.
Schedule
The 2023 Diversity Leadership Summit will take place on Saturday, March 4th from 10:00am-4:00pm
To access the Diversity Leadership Summit schedule, visit: https://lead.gmu.edu/summitschedule/.
Speaker
Partners
2023 Diversity Leadership Summit Planning Team
- Elena Chiru, University Career Services
- Deborah Fasholé-Luke, The LEAD Office
- Lana Harris, Student Success Coaching
- Caroline Jacques, Center for Culture, Equity, and Empowerment
- Melanie (MJ) Jalim, Student Success Coaching
- Nick Lennon, The LEAD Office
- Dunni Oni, Center for Culture, Equity, and Empowerment
- TJ Pegg, Student Success Coaching and Patriot Experience
- Phil Rippa, The LEAD Office
- Joisanne Rodgers, Contemporary Student Services
- Michael Rybak, Student Success Coaching
- Galilea Sejas-Machado, Center for Culture, Equity, and Empowerment
- Caroline Simpson, Contemporary Student Services
- Lisa Snyder, The LEAD Office
- Tamara Washington, Center for Culture, Equity, and Empowerment
- Nakia Waters, First-Gen+ Center
- Marcara Wright, Center for Culture, Equity, and Empowerment