Apr. 7, 2017
12:00 pm–3:00 pm
Nebraska Union Room: Colonial Room
Ellie will conduct a two-part presentation on inclusivity and personal perspective-building. This is a must-attend education and enrichment event for anyone who wants to “get it right” relative to living and working in a more inclusive environment.
Gray Area Thinking™: Noon to 1:45PM
Understanding how humans group and label those who are “different” from “us” and a toolset for thinking more inclusively. This presentation includes an audience-participatory exercise, “The Identity Game.”
Transgender 101: 1:45PM to 3:00PM
Hear firsthand from a transgender person on what it means to be “trans” and making one’s way through a society that largely doesn’t understand the concept of gender identity or the fact that transgender persons don’t “choose” to be who they are. Incorporating elements of her own personal story, Ellie offers tips on how to be welcoming as more and more transgender people are “coming out.”
The workshops will be streamed live courtesy of funding from the University of Nebraska Diversity, Access and Inclusion. The stream can be found at http://its.unl.edu/sets/unl-special-stream.
More information at https://events.unl.edu/diversity/2017/04/07/119263/.
Community Conversation about Transgender Concerns
Apr. 7, 2017
4:00 pm
Van Brunt Visitors Center
Join Ellie as she conducts a presentation on inclusivity and personal perspective-building.
This conversation, facilitated by Ellie will cover a range of topics:
• Common misunderstandings about transgender people
• School safety, bullying and bathrooms
• The political and social empowerment of anti-transgender activists in the current political climate
We’ve all heard the phrase, “diversity and inclusion,” but what does it actually mean to make a workplace or organization or even our personal lives more diverse and inclusive? How can we get beyond grouping and labeling of other humans according to the color of their skin, the religion they practice, or the country in which they were born? Can we really build a just and inclusive world, especially in this time of such legitimized division?
More information at https://events.unl.edu/diversity/2017/04/07/119264/.
More details at: https://events.unl.edu/diversity/2017/04/07/119264/.