CONFERENCE PRE-SESSION BLOCK

• Part I: Foundations for Operationalizing Equity
  
• Part II: Foundations for Operationalizing Equity
  
• Operationalizing Equity through Analysis
  
• Communities of Practice Session

Presented by: 

Shanyanika McElroy, Organizational Efficacy Strategist, M&H Solutions

Bio: Shanyanika helps clients shift from transactional interactions with their stakeholders to lasting connections that are mutually transformative.  Shanyanika has enjoyed a 20+ year career in public service with a focus on removing barriers that prevent marginalized communities’ access to programs and services. She leverages this experience to create stratified and cross-functional teams, develop initiatives, and create interventions that optimize the expertise and performance within her partner organizations.

B.Hill, Social Justice Strategist, M&H Solutions

Bio: B is a social justice strategist and advocate with the visionary leadership experience that drives organizational and cultural change that moves agencies from theory to action. Their passion to drive change for social good stems over the past 20 years with lived experience at the intersection of race, non-binary gender, and identity. This provides them with a broad and unique skill set that has been purposed towards dismantling institutional injustice and leading through the lens of intersectionality to manifest equitable and inclusive experiences, services, programs, and opportunities. B has served in key strategic and highly visible leadership positions that build diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) initiatives from the ground up. Additionally, their skillset includes experience with executive coaching and thought leadership, building internal and external partnerships, championing and operationalizing sustainable systems equity and inclusion initiatives as well as leading contracting equity successes in women and minority-owned businesses (WMBE).

Part I: Foundations for Operationalizing Equity

Description: 

Many organizations would like to strengthen their commitment to equity but are not sure where to start. In the Foundations for Operationalizing Equity workshop, we will explore foundational concepts that support equity, inclusion, and belonging in their everyday work. As a result, you will have the basics to begin to see, challenge, and change the narratives that create barriers to equity in their organization’s operations, policies, and services. 

Learning Objective

• Understand the foundational concepts of what it means to operationalize equity.

Part II: Foundations for Operationalizing Equity 

Description: 

Many organizations would like to strengthen their commitment to equity but are not sure where to start. In the Foundations for Operationalizing Equity workshop, we will explore foundational concepts that support equity, inclusion, and belonging in their everyday work. As a result, you will have the basics to begin to see, challenge, and change the narratives that create barriers to equity in their organization’s operations, policies, and services. 

Learning Objective

• Understand the foundational concepts of what it means to operationalize equity.

Operationalizing Equity through Analysis

Description: 

The Equity Analysis training is designed for professionals looking to put their equity, inclusion, and belonging knowledge into action. We will engage with theories that drive an equity analysis and explore tools that guide the examination of an organization’s policies, procedures, and programs. You will get an in-depth look at three equity analysis tools that you can apply to their everyday work. We will explore some examples of when to apply each tool. As a result, you will have equity analysis tools in hand and the context needed to start using them. 

Learning Objectives

• Understand core elements of equity analysis and take away practical examples.

Communities of Practice Session

Description: 

Join the facilitators and your peers for a guided Application Session.  The advancement of EIB requires intentional focus and the application of equity analysis in daily practice.  One part in undoing systems of injustice and ensuring that parks and recreation investments, services, and workplace culture center those most in need and those most affected by historical injustice, requires utilization of tools that dismantle and reimagine systems and culture. 

Learning Objectives

• Have a deeper understanding of how to apply and utilize equity tools for equitable decision-making.

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