Community Education Series 2024-2025
2024-2025 Community Education Series #1: We/Me: Bridge Building Across the Divide & Toward Collective Liberation
An interactive training led by Monique Marshall - Antiracist, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Trainer
Tuesday, October 15
6:30 p.m.: Reception with light refreshments hosted by Walden Equity (W.E.)
7:00 p.m.: Community Ed Talk
Are you wondering how to navigate challenging conversations in these divided times? Have you felt stuck explaining the complexity of today’s world to your children?
Before we can support our young people, we need to unpack our own baggage, name our biases, and explore the ways we so often get stuck in “information silos”. Our identities, experiences, and stories shape our belief systems and are at the heart of what each of us sees as true and real. We pass along these ways of thinking and believing to our children, whether we are conscious or unconscious of the lessons we are teaching.
In this interactive workshop with Monique Marshall (a familiar face at Walden), you will tell stories, listen deeply, reflect on your belief systems, and be introduced to some tools you can bring home to your family. Walden faculty, administrators, and staff kicked off the school year with a version of this workshop - so don’t miss your opportunity to support your children at home by mirroring for them some of the language they will continue to hear this year in their classrooms.
Come explore the “WE” of the Walden community and learn to bring deep curiosity back to challenging conversations. Your kids will thank you!
The evening will begin with mingling and refreshments hosted by Walden Equity (W.E.) at 6:30 p.m., followed by the Community Ed talk at 7:00 p.m. Child care is available for K-6 students for $15/child and includes a pizza dinner.
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.