Consulting
Stefani has years of experience consulting on human resource policy, curriculum development, strategic planning, and inclusive student policy and procedure design within higher education. She is available for one or multi-day in-person sessions and can tailor the experience to meet a variety of needs.
Training Sessions
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion 101: Creating Equitable Classrooms & Campus Culture
This session is custom designed for the organization and particular field of the attendees. Additionally, it can be tracked in 4 ways in order to best serve each population: students, staff, faculty, and executives. This training is designed to provide a knowledge base, or knowledge refresher, that includes important considerations related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). We will focus on DEI fundamentals, establishing shared language, and opening the door to ongoing learning. This session is focused on practical tools you can deploy in your work and across campus.
Duration: 120 - 180+ minutes
Our House is Your Home: DEI for Housing & Residence Life Staff
Designed specifically for staff and paraprofessionals working in Housing and Residence Life (HRL). This training provides a knowledge base, or knowledge refresher, that includes important considerations related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and will allow staff to role play through scenarios that can be challenging. HRL staff are imperative to an institution’s mission and make unparalleled impact on the student body. During this session we will delve into strategies for building relationships with residents, responding to incidents pertaining to marginalized identities, and conducting educational, cultural and social programs that promote the values of diversity, equity, inclusion.
Duration: 120 minutes
Trust Me, I’m A (SA)Pro: Student Development Theory & Liberation Work for Student Affairs Professionals
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work is work that must occur in every office on campus, not just the diversity office. As of 2015, both ACPA and NASPA include social justice and inclusion as a core competency. We are called to bring “knowledge of social justice, inclusion, oppression, privilege and power into one’s practice” and advocate “on issues of social justice, oppression, privilege, and power that impact people based on local, national, and global interconnections” (ACPA & NASPA, 2015, p. 30). This session is designed for student affairs professionals across campus and provides SA pros with real world tools to combine existing knowledge of student development with a deeper understanding of considerations related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Duration: 90 minutes
Beyond Pronouns: Inclusive Language in Higher Education
When we discuss “inclusive language” most resources only consider gendered language and pronoun usage, however there is far more to speaking and writing with an eye for inclusion. The more we understand about language, descriptors, and their meanings, the more intentional we can be about the impact of our words. This session is designed to give you a deeper understanding and vocabulary surrounding inclusive language for use in institutional communications, policy, curriculum, student service, and more.
Duration: 60 minutes
From Ally to Accomplice: LGBTQ+ 101
LGBTQ+ students, co-workers, colleagues, and community members are more than their sexualities and gender identities. This training is designed to provide participants with foundational knowledge, awareness, and skills regarding LGBTIQ+ identities while acknowledging complex and overlapping identities and intersectional forces of marginalization. Unlike many trainings that are designed without LGBTQ+ participants in mind, this training works to engage all participants, regardless of identity, in conversation and self-reflection along with increasing knowledge on terminology, identifying challenges specific to the LGBTQ+ population, and building a campus that allows LGBTQ+ students, faculty, and staff to thrive.
Duration: 90 minutes
We or Me?: Understanding Intersectionality & Identity Theory
“Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power.”
- Kimberle Crenshaw
We all hold multiple social identities simultaneously, such as age, race, gender, class, and sexuality. These social identities are born from overlapping and interdependent systems of oppression and, as a critical theory, intersectionality conceptualizes identity as situated, contextual, relational, and reflective of systems of power and describes how our overlapping social identities relate to social structures of racism and oppression. This session dives into the “we” and the “me”, giving participants tools to address systems of oppression while also acknowledging personal identities and identity development.
Duration: 60 minutes
This session is custom designed for the organization and particular field of the attendees. Additionally, it can be tracked in 4 ways in order to best serve each population: students, staff, faculty, and executives. This training is designed to provide a knowledge base, or knowledge refresher, that includes important considerations related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). We will focus on DEI fundamentals, establishing shared language, and opening the door to ongoing learning. This session is focused on practical tools you can deploy in your work and across campus.
Duration: 120 - 180+ minutes
Our House is Your Home: DEI for Housing & Residence Life Staff
Designed specifically for staff and paraprofessionals working in Housing and Residence Life (HRL). This training provides a knowledge base, or knowledge refresher, that includes important considerations related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and will allow staff to role play through scenarios that can be challenging. HRL staff are imperative to an institution’s mission and make unparalleled impact on the student body. During this session we will delve into strategies for building relationships with residents, responding to incidents pertaining to marginalized identities, and conducting educational, cultural and social programs that promote the values of diversity, equity, inclusion.
Duration: 120 minutes
Trust Me, I’m A (SA)Pro: Student Development Theory & Liberation Work for Student Affairs Professionals
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work is work that must occur in every office on campus, not just the diversity office. As of 2015, both ACPA and NASPA include social justice and inclusion as a core competency. We are called to bring “knowledge of social justice, inclusion, oppression, privilege and power into one’s practice” and advocate “on issues of social justice, oppression, privilege, and power that impact people based on local, national, and global interconnections” (ACPA & NASPA, 2015, p. 30). This session is designed for student affairs professionals across campus and provides SA pros with real world tools to combine existing knowledge of student development with a deeper understanding of considerations related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Duration: 90 minutes
Beyond Pronouns: Inclusive Language in Higher Education
When we discuss “inclusive language” most resources only consider gendered language and pronoun usage, however there is far more to speaking and writing with an eye for inclusion. The more we understand about language, descriptors, and their meanings, the more intentional we can be about the impact of our words. This session is designed to give you a deeper understanding and vocabulary surrounding inclusive language for use in institutional communications, policy, curriculum, student service, and more.
Duration: 60 minutes
From Ally to Accomplice: LGBTQ+ 101
LGBTQ+ students, co-workers, colleagues, and community members are more than their sexualities and gender identities. This training is designed to provide participants with foundational knowledge, awareness, and skills regarding LGBTIQ+ identities while acknowledging complex and overlapping identities and intersectional forces of marginalization. Unlike many trainings that are designed without LGBTQ+ participants in mind, this training works to engage all participants, regardless of identity, in conversation and self-reflection along with increasing knowledge on terminology, identifying challenges specific to the LGBTQ+ population, and building a campus that allows LGBTQ+ students, faculty, and staff to thrive.
Duration: 90 minutes
We or Me?: Understanding Intersectionality & Identity Theory
“Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power.”
- Kimberle Crenshaw
We all hold multiple social identities simultaneously, such as age, race, gender, class, and sexuality. These social identities are born from overlapping and interdependent systems of oppression and, as a critical theory, intersectionality conceptualizes identity as situated, contextual, relational, and reflective of systems of power and describes how our overlapping social identities relate to social structures of racism and oppression. This session dives into the “we” and the “me”, giving participants tools to address systems of oppression while also acknowledging personal identities and identity development.
Duration: 60 minutes