VOICES RISE: Black Women in Leadership

Join Alliance for Girls for a critical workshop series, Voices Rise: Black Women in Leadership, in partnership with Alliance member BlackFemaleProject and led by their founder, Precious Stroud.

How can we use lessons learned from intersectional lived experiences and center the voices of those who navigate complex social structures to teach us how to lead with love, and empathize with those who represent difference in our lives? How can we use our voices to counter pervasive racism and sexism in schools, outside of school, in the workplace, and beyond?

Through affinity groups, panel discussions, small group conversations, and equity-centered operational and culture design, attendees will talk through, listen, reflect, and respond to gain insight, create empathy, and center blackness in an effort to celebrate and begin to understand how Black women and girls can and do thrive. By elevating positive models and affirming gender identity (in multiple forms), together we will challenge race and gender biases by learning new ways of thinking about others.

This critical workshop series returns after the successful pilot series last year received overwhelmingly positive feedback. 

Attendees will:

• Develop a baseline understanding of intersectionality and equity, grounded in anti-racist philosophy

• Hear inspiring personal stories from Black women who lead organizations that serve girls

• Gain an understanding of how structural -isms show up for Black women and girls in the workplace and other settings, and insight into their own experiences as Black or non-Black women

• Learn effective tactics for supporting Black women who are in positions of authority and/or who hold positional power, as well as tactics to support the leadership of Black girls

• Access technical assistance to support navigation and implementation of tools and practices

This workshop series is $50 for non-members. For members, the first ticket is free with a promo code and additional tickets are $35 each (30% discount). We welcome additional donations for this series, for which the proceeds will go directly to BlackFemaleProject. Email Kailin at kailin@alliance4girls.org for the members-only promo code. Not a member? Join us!

This series will be hosted on Zoom. If you have any accommodation needs, please let us know at least 48 hours prior to the workshop. We'll make every effort to provide them.

*“Girls” refers to gender expansive youth (cis girls, trans girls, non-binary youth, gender non-conforming youth, gender queer youth and any girl-identified youth).

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Precious J. Stroud
Founder of BlackFemaleProject
Principal of PJS Consultants

Precious J. Stroud is an American Express Leadership Academy, Campaign for Black Male Achievement fellow alumna and former Black Public Media Artist-in-Residence. Precious, and her team at PJS Consultants, helps organizations increase their market position by telling the right stories at the right time. Leading creative teams toward storytelling with a positive narrative lens, Precious eliminates harmful stereotypes from social enterprise marketing. In 2014, Precious founded the BlackFemaleProject to counter the effects of systemic race and gender bias in the workplace. A research-based effort, BlackFemaleProject collects lessons learned and words of wisdom from African American women and women of African descent. The multi-layered media project reveals how Black women have survived and thrived in a post-affirmative action era, reducing the impact of structural racism and empowering a generation.