OPTIONAL – Cultivating Courageous Connections Series: Allyship Amplified

Cultivating Courageous Connections: A Journey Through Humility, Resilience, and Allyship In this dynamic 3-part series, we explore essential pillars of fostering inclusion, equity, and belonging across our collective spheres of influence. Through a cultural humility framework, participants will examine their positionality, exploring the crossroads of who they are, how others perceive them, and how power shapes their place within social systems. Cultivating Resilient Communities equips participants to navigate generative conflict with a focus on strengthening relationships and centering healing. Finally, Allyship Amplified moves us toward action by disrupting harm and amplifying the voices of marginalized communities. Join us to engage in meaningful dialogue, practical strategies, and community-building for long-term social change.

• Session #3: Allyship Amplified: Moving from Bystander to Upstander In today’s rapidly changing social landscape, being an ally is a good first step, but it often falls short of the meaningful advocacy we need for creating positive change, disrupting harm, and addressing systemic inequities. Join this conversation to explore practical strategies for transitioning your allyship into action, enabling us to have a greater impact within our circles of influence.

 

Presenter Bio:

Amanda Florence Garcia Goodenough (she/her/hers) is a dedicated educator operating from a cultural humility framework to center and elevate historically marginalized voices, promote belongingness and mattering, disrupt structural inequities, and advance intersectional social and racial justice. Leaning on 20 years of professional experience in justice, equity, decolonization, and interconnectedness (JEDI) efforts, Amanda engages in systems-change work and strives to speak truth to power as an act of love and liberation.