Influencing Leaders in Service of Equity, Care and Protection

Surfacing strategies to more safely engage, disrupt, and influence different archetypal leaders & decision-makers as marginalized staff.

During this 90-minute follow-up online workshop, Yejin Lee (she/they) will identify different types of archetypal leaders, and how they might be influenced to make decisions in service of the protection and care of marginalized staff and community members. They will also support participants in accessing and developing the shape of their engagement, disruption, and influence through their unique set of skills, abilities, strengths, knowledge, and passions.

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 info for this session: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98713144328?pwd=RBDGnIeFyu3yQIEhdl6Ansq9XUVJsy.1
Meeting ID: 987 1314 4328
Passcode: 903597

Another session (“Influencing DEIA-Related Change as Marginalized Staff)” will be offered on Monday, May 12th. We encourage you to attend both workshops if you’re able. 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.