The time is now. Justice requires all people, organizations and institutions to commit to the movement for Black lives.
Simply saying “Black Lives Matter” is not enough. Further, centering our analysis only on race is not enough. Our liberation efforts must be intersectional and call forward all of the ways people have been marginalized in this society by systems of oppression such as transphobia, homophobia, sexism, ableism and more.
As an equity consultant, Tashira Halyard supports organizations seeking to create or amplify their anti-racism efforts. She is a licensed attorney who has years of experience as both a racial equity leader and public policy expert. Learn more about her background here.
Tashira works closely with Liberation House to conduct the following trainings and engagements:
Racial Equity Foundations
Deep dive into the foundational concepts of racial equity, including the history of race, multiple levels of racism, white supremacy, white privilege and intersectionality. Participants will learn the basics of racial equity.
Time: 2 Hours Audience: Basic
Racial Equity: Structural Racism and Beyond
Focuses on analyzing systems that uphold white supremacy and structural racism in our society. Participants will explore inequities such as mass incarceration, pushout policies in schools and poor outcomes in public systems through a historical and data- driven lens.
Time: 2 Hours | Audience: Intermediate
Racial Implicit Bias
We all hold stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions and decisions in an unconscious manner. Using prominent research in the field, participants will learn how implicit biases affect the human brain and begin the work to identify and address their own racial biases.
Time: 2 Hours (plus pre-work) | Audience: Basic
Undoing Racism: Tools to Discover Your Cultural Values
Race and racism affect everyone in American society, first on an individual level. This training seeks to uncover participants’ personal relationship with race, power and privilege as a primer to an organization’s foundational racial equity efforts.
Time: 3 Hours | Audience: Basic
Identifying and Addressing White Dominant Norms in a Workplace
White dominant norms are the unspoken rules that guide workplaces. Beliefs such as fear of open conflict, superiority of the written word and comfort with predominantly white leadership will be explored as tools of marginalization.
This training supports workplaces in identifying and addressing the white dominant norms most evident in their organizational culture. Participants will develop a racial equity vision and mission for their work and new norms that uphold equity. The training includes ongoing support for a racial equity strategic plan.
Time: 3 Hours (plus post-work) | Audience: Advanced
Revolutionary Organizing for Our Times
What is the difference between reform and revolution? Participants will grapple with this question as it relates to their work by exploring the history of grassroots organizing in American society. They will emerge with tools to move beyond the nonprofit industrial complex to enact long- lasting change. The primary question participants address is “How can our work become more radical and truly transformative?”
Time: 3 Hours | Audience: Advanced
Intersectionality: Beyond Theory to Practice
Intersectionality is a theoretical concept that connects multiple forms of inequality based upon race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability and class. Participants will learn the history of intersectionality as envisioned by Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, develop an understanding of what it means to “go beyond, but include race” and apply intersectionality to their work.
Time: 2 Hours | Audience: Intermediate
Transforming Systems, Transforming Self: Tools to Develop Organized Demands
If organizing is the attempt to bring people together to take collective action to resolve a commonly identified problem, then transformative organizing situates individual campaigns within a conscious analysis of the underlying system of exploitation and oppression.
This training provides a deep dive into transformative organizing and its explicit intention to transform both the systems and the individuals engaged in those campaigns in an effort to win genuine liberation for all.
Time: 4 Hours | Audience: Advanced
Tashira and Liberation House have worked together for years to build our clients’ and partners’ capacity to improve their institutional practices and commitment to being an anti-racist organization. Their efforts have resulted in a set of core racial equity competencies that assist organizations in transforming their internal and external efforts.
The following is a list of clients and partners:
- Gwen’s Girls
- A Way Home America
- Funders Together to End Homelessness
- Community Solutions
- True Colors United
- The Alliance for Racial Equity in Child Welfare