Upcoming workshop
Challenging Resistance to EDIA Initiatives - A workshop for the UM community
UM staff, faculty, and students are invited to join Robin Attas, EDIA Specialist, Extended Education, to learn about forms of resistance and collectively grapple with strategies to ensure our EDIA initiatives reach those who need them most. Registration is required.
- In person: Wednesday, February 11 from 9:30 to 11:30 am -160 Extended Education
- OR
- Online: Thursday, February 19 from 1:30 to 3:30 pm - On Zoom
About the workshop
The last year has seen a dramatic uptick in public opposition to equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives. While this is challenging, we can take hope in the fact that resistance to EDIA has been around for some time, and there are well-developed strategies for confronting these challenges. In this session, you will gain insights into common forms of resistance in workplace EDIA initiatives and training, exploring strategies for addressing resistance both before and after it happens. Expect to be highly engaged through a combination of short lectures, multiple breakout discussions, and ample time for self-reflection. Participants will learn from experts and peers, reflect and share their own wisdom, as we collectively grapple with strategies to ensure our EDIA initiatives reach those who need them most.
With Robin Attas
Robin Attas, EDIA Specialist, Extended Education
Robin Attas (she, her) is a white settler based in Treaty 1 territory, with a lifelong passion for equity, justice, and social responsibility through education. Her current role is the latest step in a long academic career supporting others to integrate equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, decolonization, and Reconciliation into post-secondary education practices. Robin oversees and teaches the Micro-certificate in EDIA and EDIA 0100: EDIA Foundations for the UM community. Robin also facilitates workshops and discussions on a range of EDIA topics for both academic and non-academic audiences, including school and government officials and community groups.
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185 Extended Education Complex
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Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada