Reimagining and Building Resilience - Transformative Leadership in a Time of Rapid Change

Professor Shawna Wakefield will facilitate Reimagining and Building Resilience. In this experiential workshop, students will consider individual and collective sources of resiliency, and engage in a core resilience practice that can resource their leadership.

Workshop Overview:
Light lunch served: 12:30pm-1pm
Session begins: 1pm-2pm

Presenter Bio:
Shawna is a professor, facilitator, consultant and advocate who has worked on gender, racial and economic justice for over 20 years. She accompanies social justice leaders and their organizations to develop capacities for feminist leadership and organizational cultures of care, justice, equity and inclusion. She was Oxfam International’s Senior Gender Justice Lead, collectively leading organizational strategy, learning, advocacy /campaigns, humanitarian, organizational culture and accountability initiatives on women’s rights. She was Oxfam’s Regional Gender Advisor in East Asia, Gender Researcher with the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit in Kabul and Program Specialist with UN Development Fund for Women and organized with immigrants and refugees in the US.

Presenter's Bio link:
https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/communities-connections/faculty/shawna-wakefield

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Co-hosted with: SIPA Office of Student Affairs, SIPA DEICE Committee

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