Antiracism for Activists

Even as we strive to make our communities and our country a better place for all people, we have to contend with racism - explicit and hidden - that our culture and therefore WE have been steeped in from day one. Learn to spot unconscious bias, center lived experiences, and apply this work to our activism on a daily basis. It is vital that we combat racism within and without to make this movement truly for ALL people!

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About the trainer: Denise Devonish has been working in the Gainesville area since 1996. She completed her Bachelor's Degree in Behavioral Analysis and her Master's Degree in Special Education at the University of Florida. She has worked at Tacachale, a developmentally disabled institution in Gainesville as an administrator and a staff trainer. She has also worked as a Protective Services Counselor with the Department of Children and Families as well as a Health Facility Evaluator at the Agency for Health Care Administration. She has owned DMD Health and Safety Training Services since 2014 and co-owned Gainesville Sports Camp since 2017.

Denise moved to the USA from Barbados in 1991 to attend school. She went to Miami Dade Community College and then to the University of Florida. As a young multiracial, foreign woman in Florida, she was exposed to many different cultures and differences within her immediate environment. She witnessed firsthand the complexities of being a non-national multiracial woman in the USA. In her professional experiences, she worked in circumstances that warranted very delicate steps to move through issues with race, socioeconomic inequities and differences with acceptance of persons with disabilities as equals. She acquired skills that helped her understand viewpoints from many different perspectives that then transitioned into helping organizations work through conflicts that occurred as a result of many of these differences.

Pay what you can to help us pay Denise ($0-30), but no one will be turned away. Any extra funds will be used for planned trainings coming in the near future.

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