To build training capacity across the Wexner Medical Center health professions workforce, Quinn Capers, IV, MD, will be providing opportunities for faculty and staff to participate in the Implicit Bias Mitigation Train the Trainer course that will convene for eight hours on the following four Saturdays: June 1, July 13, July 27, and August 3. Classes will be limited to no less than six and no more than 20 participants.

Prior to participating in the train the trainer course faculty/staff must have already completed one of Dr. Capers' in-person implicit bias mitigation workshops, which convene the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of every month.  

Please see attached syllabus under "More Information" for details on the train the trainer course. The training will be at no cost for faculty and staff.

The exact time of the course was not available for this posting. Please inquire about correct start and end times.

Interested faculty and staff should submit their RSVP to Valerie.Blackwell-Truitt@osumc.edu as soon as possible.

To build training capacity across the Wexner Medical Center health professions workforce, Quinn Capers, IV, MD, will be providing opportunities for faculty and staff to participate in the Implicit Bias Mitigation Train the Trainer course that will convene for eight hours on the following four Saturdays: June 1, July 13, July 27, and August 3. Classes will be limited to no less than six and no more than 20 participants.

Prior to participating in the train the trainer course faculty/staff must have already completed one of Dr. Capers' in-person implicit bias mitigation workshops, which convene the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of every month.  

Please see attached syllabus under "More Information" for details on the train the trainer course. The training will be at no cost for faculty and staff.

The exact time of the course was not available for this posting. Please inquire about correct start and end times.

Interested faculty and staff should submit their RSVP to Valerie.Blackwell-Truitt@osumc.edu as soon as possible.

Join the Kirwan Institute as Dr. Meshelemiah presents on "Sex Trafficking: The Intersection of Race, Molestation, Drugs and 'Dope Boys.'"

Dr. Jacquelyn C.A. Meshelemiah is a licensed social worker (LSW) and three-time alum of The Ohio State University. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Social Work (BSSW), Master of Social Work (MSW), and Doctorate (PhD) from the College of Social Work. As an assistant professor and later as an associate professor in social work, she has taught courses across the curricula at the BSSW, MSW, and PhD levels. She currently teaches courses on Assessments and Diagnoses in Clinical Social Work as well as Human Trafficking.

This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.

For accommodations on the basis of disability, please contact Ashley Wilson at wilson.1871@osu.edu.

Dr. Elizabeth Castle, a Mansfield native, is bringing the award-winning documentary she co-directed and produced, Warrior Women, back to her home town with the stars of the film.

The film follows the journey of Madonna Thunder Hawk and her fifty-plus years of social activism within the American Indian Movement and beyond. Her daughter, Marcy Gilbert, who also stars in the film, has followed in her mother's footsteps. Both women continue fighting for the rights of all Indigenous people.

The event will be hosted by GOLD, Girl's Owning Lives of Dissent, which is a local organization out of the Shelby City Schools that is focused on creating the next generation of engaged community leaders.

The evening will consist of the screening of the film, a Q&A session with Dr. Castle, Madonna Thunder Hawk, and Marcy Gilbert.

While the event is free, tickets are required. Donations are strongly encouraged and provide funding to support the ongoing activism and grassroots organizing of the film team.

“Warrior Women” is the story of mothers and daughters fighting for indigenous rights in the American Indian Movement of the 1970s. The film unveils not only a female perspective of history, but also examines the impact political struggles have on the children who bear witness.

Pizza and drinks will be served while they last. To RSVP, email Donna Hight.

The 15th Annual Ballam Women’s Symposium theme is “Women Leading Women” with a focus on the role we as professional women have in being workplace allies for each other. Symposium speakers will address the challenges and solutions women experience as they seek to educate, energize and empower other women.

Sponsored by the Association of Staff and Faculty Women of Ohio State University (ASFW), the Symposium will provide an opportunity for you to ask questions, build confidence, and create a road map to further your own vision and empower other women.

Our keynote speaker is Dr. Wendy Smooth, Ohio State’s associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion, College of Arts and Sciences. In her role as dean, Dr. Smooth oversees the coordination, promotion and advising on diversity and inclusion across the College of Arts and Sciences. The keynote topic is Defining & Maximizing Your Sphere of Influence: Building More Inclusive Work Spaces.

The forum will feature the following guests who will discuss the gender and racial wealth gap and community solutions to move towards economic empowerment for women, girls, and families: Kelley Griesmer, President & CEO of The Women's Fund will be joined by Christie Angel (President and CEO of YWCA Columbus), Dr. Suparna Bhaskaran, (Senior Researcher at The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society), and Dr. Darrick Hamilton (Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity).

The gender wealth gap, exacerbated by a deeper racial wealth gap, goes far beyond wage inequality and is a much more comprehensive framework for understanding a women’s financial security over her lifetime. This is the first time a report has looked at the gender and racial wealth gap at a local level in Ohio. 

While building wealth can be a lifelong process, women, especially women of color, generally have fewer opportunities than men to accumulate wealth. Often the gender earnings gap is focused on – with women earning just 80 cents on the dollar compared with men – yet the wealth gap is even larger: single women own only 40 cents for every dollar that single men own. For Black and Hispanic women, the wealth gap is especially stark: single Black women own two cents on the dollar compared with all single men, and single Latina women own only eight cents.

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion’s ACCESS Collaborative Program will host this 3-day, nationally-acclaimed symposium, which brings together professionals from across the U.S. and Canada. The symposium will address best practices, challenges, program models, and collaboration to provide student parents valuable resources and information on how to navigate between family, school, and work.

Conference Areas of Emphasis:

• College Program Models for Student Parents
• Issues Affecting the Academic Success of Student Parents
• Realistic Needs for Student Parent Academic Success
• Helping Student Parents Balance Family/School/Work
• Housing Needs for Student Parents
• Developing Community Support
• Collaboration with Community Resources
• Means to solicit funds or resources from national, state or private foundations

Who Attends

Higher Education/Academic Leaders

• Directors of Housing
• Coordinators/Directors of Student-Parent Organizations and Programs
• Student Affairs Officers
• Multicultural Affairs Officers
• Support Services Directors
• Academic Researchers
• Education Association Representatives
• High School Educators
• Other Higher Education Representatives

Government Leaders

• Representatives of Federal, State, and Local Government Agencies

Community Leaders

• Advocates for Women’s Rights
• Program Representatives for Low Income Families

Social Science Leaders

• Social Workers
• Nurses
• Counselors

Join us for talks on practices of survival and care that catalyze political reimagining and action. This event seeks to raise awareness about sexual violence and to connect work against sexual and interpersonal violence to other political struggles.

AMITA SWADHIN (featured guest speaker) is a nationally recognized activist, storyteller, and educator dedicated to fighting interpersonal and institutional violence against young people, ending child sexual abuse, and helping survivors heal through their oral history project, Mirror Memoirs.

Roundtable Speakers:

GUISELA LATORRE (Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies) on Latinx/Chicanx public art and social justice

DKÉAMA ALEXIS (Black Queer & Intersectional Collective) on black trans resilience and survivorship

DANIEL RIVERS (American Indian Studies) on Native American queer relations

Moderator: JIAN NEO CHEN (English & Sexuality Studies)

This event has been organized by the Sexuality Studies Program at Ohio State and is free and open to the public. (Light refreshments and dessert will be provided.)

If you wish to request accommodations (ASL interpretation, CART captioning, etc.) or have questions about accessibility or other issues, please email chen.982@osu.edu. Denney Hall is wheelchair accessible.

Co-sponsors: Sexuality Studies Program, Department of English Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Department of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Native American Studies Program, Humanities Institute at OSU, The Women's Place

Culture is created one conversation at a time.

We invite you to join us as we explore how we can thrive together by learning and practicing methodologies for hosting and harvesting meaningful conversations.

April 3 – 5, 2019
Wednesday – Friday
Grange Insurance Audubon Center
505 W Whittier St
Columbus OH 43215

Times: each day, 9am - 4pm
Meals: Lunch and snacks are included

The Art of Hosting Conversations That Matter is a suite of powerful conversational processes that brings equity of voice, respect and acknowledgement of group wisdom to planning and decision-making processes. It invites people to step in and take charge of the challenges facing them in an inherently more democratic way than most conversations.

Each Art of Hosting is a reflection of new understanding and learning about how to make change in ourselves and the systems we care about.

If this intrigues you, please join us to learn and explore the following methodologies to engage yourself and others in making change in our organizations and communities:

• World Café
• Open Space
• Circle
• Storytelling
• Appreciative inquiry and reflective listening
• And more

Come ready to challenge your assumptions, be in deep conversation, and find new solutions for creating the change you seek in yourself, your organizations, and your communities — from wherever you are.

In addition, connect with experienced Ohio State practitioners to learn how they are using Art of Hosting in classrooms, in planning meetings, and many other areas on campus.

Cost: $150

Space is limited to 45 participants.

Register by 5pm, March 22