In alignment with the “Link it Black” call to action for White advertising professionals to connect potential clients to Black professionals, I am so excited to share with you my Black colleagues and partners who do similar education and training work. Hire them, they are brilliant and wonderful!
Christopher has been leading diversity trainings since the early 2000’s, starting with Equal Employment Opportunity and ADA work at Howard University. He has worked with small businesses, start ups, venues, and educational centers to implement diversity and inclusion initiatives, conflict resolution, and professional development.
Training and workshop offering topics include: Implicit Bias, Allyship, Intersectionality, Somatic Anxiety and How to Manage Defensiveness, and Restorative Justice.
Nexus is an anti-racism coach based in the territories of the Pamunkey and Piscataway, (Washington, DC). He has over a decade and a half of working in the arts and advocacy, and serving in a variety of volunteer leadership positions, from which he brings his extensive experience regarding inclusion, diversity, equity, and access (IDEA) to his anti-racism work.
Nexus offers coaching, consulting, retreats, workshops, and events — all on the broad topic of dismantling white supremacy.
Omari Soulfinger is a comedic performing artist dedicated to creative advocacy. Since 2001, Omari has worked with under-served families and their communities in various capacities, including as a classroom teacher, social worker, and advocate. Omari is a member-organizer with Brooklyn Movement Center, a facilitator with Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, Ramapo For Children, Mankind Project, and All Kings.
Omari offers workshops designed to explore and fight against injustice using theater-based practices including clowning.
Phoenix AKA Mohawk “The Rebel Educationist” (they/them: formerly known as Mohawk the Educator) is a black, trans intersectional harm reduction educator & advocate for people who use drugs (PWUD) that provides in-person services and online education and resources. They are a community organizer that is skilled with technology, writing, and education and participate in drug policy and other reform advocacy, activism, and mutual aid. Through their work, they center those most marginalized and impacted by The Drug War™, namely queer and trans people who use drugs as they are underserved.
http://therebeleducationist.com/