Influencing DEIA-Related Change as Marginalized Staff

Identifying, negotiating, and (sometimes) pushing the limits and edges of DEIA-work led by marginalized staff without decision-making power.

During this 90-minute online workshop, anti-oppression facilitator Yejin Lee (she/they) will provide participants with a strategic framework to support marginalized staff in identifying entry points for meaningful advocacy and change while acknowledging, negotiating, and sometimes pushing the limits and edges of DEIA work at the organization. Yejin will also support folks in surfacing the kind of tangible care required to sustain these efforts during such turbulent times.

Yejin brings extensive experience as a liberation-oriented organizer and uses their equity and racial justice experience to center and focus on multiply-marginalized workers. This is as much a time for growing our coalitions as it is for determining and narrowing what we can do while being protective of our energies. Though all are welcome to participate, these events will center library workers with marginalized identities, especially those without decision-making power, and de-center authority and whiteness.

If you have accessibility needs you’d like us to be aware of, please email the Library Diversity Council <ldc-lib@umich.edu>.

We encourage you to register for this session so you can receive pre-workshop material and a calendar invitation beforehand, as well as a Session Reminder email two days ahead of the workshop. But registration is not required. Zoom info is provided below, and the pre-workshop material will also be shared via chat during the workshop.

Zoom link for this session: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96962843297?pwd=gYeq0oa5pH4DpuVr5aQaCxkEeUnumg.1
Meeting ID: 969 6284 3297
Passcode: 766901

Another workshop (“Influencing Leaders in Service of Equity, Care and Protection)” will be offered on Thursday, June 5th. We encourage you to attend both workshops if you’re able. But if you are unable to attend the May 12th workshop, we recommend watching the recording before attending the June 5th follow-up. A link to the recording will be shared in the May 16th Library Newsletter.