Event Details
As the DEIBA landscape continues to evolve, many human service organizations are facing new questions, increased scrutiny, and external pressures that can make sustained efforts feel challenging.
Join us for Holding Your Ground: Sustaining DEIBA Commitment in Challenging Times, a dynamic one-hour session designed to help leaders and professionals strengthen their commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and accessibility while navigating today's realities.
Who Should Attend?
Executive leaders, managers, HR professionals, DEIBA champions, board members, and anyone committed to creating inclusive, mission-driven human service organizations.
Participants will gain practical tools and strategies for keeping DEIBA initiatives aligned with organizational values, communicating effectively with stakeholders, and building lasting operational practices that can withstand changing environments.
During the session, we'll explore:
- Why the current climate matters for human service organizations
- The evolving DEIBA landscape and organizational implications
- Strategies for staying grounded in your mission and values
- Effective stakeholder communication approaches
- Building durable, sustainable DEIBA practices
- Interactive discussion, Q&A, and actionable next steps
Details:
Duration: 1 hour
Presenters: Dr. Crystallee Crain
This is a virtual training, which will be recorded.
Please ensure you have working laptop, camera, and headphones to access the Zoom meeting.
Dr. Crystallee Crain (she/her/hers) is an interdisciplinary public health scholar, human rights advocate, artist, and author. With over 15 years of national consulting experience and more than two decades in the nonprofit sector, she bridges the worlds of research, healing justice, and community capacity-building to create sustainable, people-centered change.
Dr. Crain facilitates trainings with an emphasis on addressing trauma, prevention science, and participatory capacity-building. She specializes in revealing layers of institutional inequality while supporting communities to shift ways of being and practice — improving life chances through transformative means, liberatory practices, and healing as a strategy for change.
She holds a Ph.D. in Transformative Studies from the California Institute of Integral Studies, an M.A. in Social Sciences from Eastern Michigan University, and a B.S. in Political Science from Northern Michigan University. In 2013, she received executive training in Health and Human Rights from Harvard University's School of Public Health.
In October 2024, Dr. Crain was awarded the International Impact Book Award in the Multicultural Category for her Cultural Humility in Practice Workbook.
