Allyship should be easy. And it is, once you make a conscious decision to become an ally and understand the tools needed to be effective.
About this event
Ask An Ally: How Everyone Can Overcome Obstacles and Become Better Allies
Our panel will discuss allyship from a variety of angles, and talk about the moment they moved from unconscious allyship (shouting into the void, picking fights at Thanksgiving or standing up to every bully) to conscious allyship? We will also discuss specific tools to become better allies.
Our panel includes:
Lisa Hickey CEO Good Men Media Inc. Publisher of the Good Men Project
Dale Thomas Vaughn Panel Moderator. Co-Founder of the Better Man Conference. Leader of Strategy and Communications; 6-time best selling Author; Thought Leader in Inclusion & Healthy Masculinity
Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld Author of The What, the So What, and the Now What of Social Justice Education (Peter Lang Publishers), Warren’s Words: Smart Commentary on Social Justice (Purple Press); editor of Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price (Beacon Press), and co-editor of Readings for Diversity and Social Justice (Routledge) and Investigating Christian Privilege and Religious Oppression in the United States (Sense), and co-author of Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life (Beacon Press).
Thaddeus Howze Award-winning writer, editor, podcaster and activist creating scientific, political and cultural commentary. Thaddeus is a writer/call leader for The Good Men Project, a platform challenging modern social norms for men. He also writes for media station/online magazine Krypton Radio. He has appeared Black Enterprise, Gizmodo, Huffington Post, Polygon, Panel and Frame, and the BBC. Previously, Thaddeus was Chief Information Officer and VP of Information Services for John F. Kennedy University, and adjunct instructor of Computer Science and technology manager of Computer Science department at Laney College.
Holly Dunsworth, Ph.D. (Penn State) is a biological anthropologist at the University of Rhode Island where she teaches with new and original approaches aimed at overturning evolutionary misconceptions and outdated evolutionary dogma that students bring to college.
Join the conversation about how allyship and leadership are inextricably linked in the 21st century and what it takes to get to a tipping point with inclusion. Lisa has led multiple social movements, most recently as the CEO and visionary behind the Good Men Project – a conversation about masculinity that reaches 3 million readers per month.
This panel is part of an ongoing series of Diversity & Inclusion programs to help corporations and individuals navigate a world that is changing faster than most people can keep up with that change.
“Inclusion is not just nice, it’s necessary.”
Today more than ever, there is a growing need for organizations of all kinds to build a diverse and inclusive culture. It’s both an institutional and individual issue. And most importantly, it is a leadership skill. You cannot be a leader unless you understand the roots of systemic oppression and why it will benefit everyone to dismantle the current systems. Creating cultural change is a long game. Diversity and inclusion is not a “box-checking” exercise. It requires focus, intentionality, and engagement across a complex set of issues. The issues run through every aspect of our educational institutions and our individual lives. We are looking to create individual change in the short term and organizational change over time.
Organizations that lead in diversity and inclusion have substantially higher profitability, productivity, and customer satisfaction and lower employee turn-over.
The Good Men Project offers workshops on D&I, including “Men as More than Allies: A Toolkit for Modern Leadership.” For more information, visit https://goodmenproject.com/the-good-men-project-diversity-and-inclusion-programs/, or come join this event.