Women Faculty, Staff and Students of Color Invited to UMass ADVANCE’s Black Women United Virtual Workshop Feb. 16

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Black Women United will host “Black Women’s Mentoring Tool Kit,” the last of three online workshop-style sessions titled Sister:Resisters that focus on mentoring Black women, from noon-1:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 16, via Zoom.

This final event is intended to build upon the tools that mentors have acquired during the first two sessions. A primary goal is to strengthen confidence in reading, naming, opposing and replacing gendered racism that impacts Black women faculty and students and can derail their success. The session is facilitated by Janie Victoria Ward, Professor Emerita, Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Cultural Studies, Simmons College and Tracy L. Robinson-Wood, Professor of Applied Psychology, Northeastern University.

This initiative is part of UMass ADVANCE’s Mutual Mentoring Grant Award program and seeks to build and maintain a network of Black women peers, increase the advancement of faculty and drive institutional transformation to create environments where diversity is encouraged and supported.

For more information about Black Women United, contact Cheryl Swanier at cswanier@umass.edu.