Webinars

For more information about webinars email the Membership Engagement Collective at [email protected]

Upcoming Webinars 

Allyship at Work: Supporting and Supervising Your Trans Colleagues

In an era marked by political backlash and institutional stagnation, the work of supervising and supporting transgender staff is deeply emotional, and too often, invisible. In this interactive session, we will continue to explore the theme of the past Virtual Drive-In, how love, anger, and grief show up in the supervision of trans colleagues and staff. Particularly in higher education environments shaped by white supremacy, cisnormativity, and administrative violence. Drawing on lived experience and collective wisdom, the session invites participants to reflect on their own emotional journeys, identify institutional practices that harm or uplift trans employees, and engage in strategies for moving from performative allyship to accountable accompliceship. Participants will leave with tangible tools to advocate for structural change, navigate moments of discomfort, and foster cultures of care grounded in love and justice.

This session will be led by Camden Doolittle (they/them). Cam is a student affairs professional, researcher, and lifelong scholar-advocate. They are passionate about supporting students as the experts in their experiences, using trauma informed and identity based approaches. They graduated as valedictorian from the University of San Diego, earning bachelors degrees in history and sociology. Following a term as a research scholar in gender studies at Oxford University, they earned a master’s degree in college student personnel at Bowling Green State University. Cam is currently completing a doctorate in educational leadership at the University of California at Davis. Their background in residence life, basic needs, learning communities, Title IX, case management, and gender equity work positions them as a professional committed to dismantling systemic barriers to create inclusive and compassionate programs and policies. They currently work as the Assistant Director for Housing Affordability and Equity Programs at UC Davis, charged with leading campus-wide housing affordability initiatives. As a transgender, non-binary professional they are constantly examining and identifying ways to make their workplace, and the field of education, a more equitable place to work, learn, and grow. 

Registration is free for Consortium members and $10 for non-members.

Register here by Wednesday, September 24th!

Walking on Eggshells: The Realities of LGBTQIA+ Centers in the Current Climate

In today’s landscape, LGBTQIA+ centers and in turn, their staff, are sites of political turmoil as they continue to navigate the complexity of institutional pressures, transphobia, systemic violence, and uncertainty about their future. This years’ Center Awareness Day Walking on Eggshells: The Realities of LGBTQIA+ Centers in the Current Climate highlights and honors the dissonance between the realities current staff and students face throughout this time. This panel discussion, framed through trauma-informed and queer theoretical lenses, explores the emotional and political labor of queer and trans resource professionals, the supervision and support (or lackthereof), and the uneven institutional responses that leave many walking on eggshells. Join us as we name the challenges, honor community resistance, and co-imagine centers, and futures, that love us back. LGBTQIA+ Centers are life-saving resources on campus, and we hope you can join us for this conversation!

Register here by Wednesday, October 15th!

Previous Webinars 

Envisioning Our Collective Future: Centering Blackness In LGBTQ Resource Work (October 2020)

(Video Link) 

Decentering Whiteness Webinar Series (Summer 2018)

Based on conversations and feedback from our queer and trans colleagues of color and the 2017 Creating Change Consortium institute, a subcommittee of Consortium board members has been working collaboratively to develop a monthly webinar series on how we as white practitioners can truly ground our work in racial justice and decenter whiteness on our campuses, in our field, and in our lives. Our goals for these upcoming webinars are to:

• Engage membership in discussions on decentering whiteness as part of our commitment to racial justice as a profession
• Provide spaces for members to learn from and engage with one another through building a community of practice
• Spark ongoing work and additional opportunities to continue engaging membership in the the work of racial justice

Each webinar will be facilitated by a pair and will be on topics related to decentering whiteness and interrupting white supremacy in our lives and work.  Queer and trans people of color are welcome to join and engage in or observe the space. However, we do want to provide a content warning that in these spaces we hope white folks will process our thoughts and behaviors in a learning environment so we can address them and discuss and tactics of decentering whiteness. Additionally, we will provide reference documents (articles, videos, etc.) selected in advance of each call that will be shared with membership so there is a common ground to work. For example, “White Supremacy Culture,” from Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun.