Community Education Series 2025-2026
2025-2026 Community Education Series: Joyful Identity Conscious Parenting with Monique Marshall
An interactive training led by Monique Marshall - Antiracist, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Trainer
Tuesday, October 14
6:30 p.m.: Reception with light refreshments hosted by Walden Equity (W.E.)
7:00 p.m.: Community Ed Talk
Resource
Have you ever felt at a loss of words, worried about saying the wrong thing, or unsure of yourself, when talking about identity and differences of any kind with your children?
Monique shares, "I grew up in a 'colorblind,' predominantly white community. My identity as a biracial kid was some kind of secret part of my identity - or at least a piece of me that I had no language to describe and a part of myself that was glaringly different from the majority of my peers. I knew I was loved, and yet not fully seen. I was missing identity-conscious parenting and so were my white peers."
Identity-conscious conversations can be joyful and affirming for all. There is no parenting handbook that lays it all out for us, but we can work together in parenting communities to connect, reflect on the messages and values that we received as young people, as we navigate the path ahead to parenting strong, identity-conscious young adults.
In this year's session, we will lean into identity rich conversations with one another that will support us as we skill up to hold identity-conscious conversations with our children.
Childcare with a pizza dinner is available with registration for $15/child.
About Monique Marshall
Monique is the founder and principal of Monique Marshall Strategy and Consulting LLC. As an innovator and thought leader in anti-bias/anti-racist education, Monique has worked for over 30 years with faculty, students, parents and community members to develop and sustain equitable spaces of learning and belonging. Monique is especially passionate as an anti-racist educator about working with communities dedicated to the long-range goals of organizational change at the individual, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural levels.
Monique was previously an educator at Wildwood School in Los Angeles where she started the schools’ first K-5 student diversity group, led the parent diversity group, and was a founding member of the school’s Multicultural Leadership Team. Monique is also a founding board member of SoCal POCIS (Southern California, People of Color in Independent Schools). The organization is dedicated to supporting students, families, faculty, and staff of color in independent schools as well as offering a variety of annual programs for Los Angeles area independent school educators and families. Monique has presented workshops at numerous national conferences including the annual NAIS sponsored POCC (People of Color Conference), the bi-annual Across Colors conference, PEN (Progressive Educators Network), CES (Coalition of Essential Schools), The Young Child Expo & Conference, as well as at many independent and public school pre-K-college communities.