Podcast

Podcast Ep. 115: Equitable Dinners at Work: Race Equity in the Workplace

Dec 15, 2023

Equitable Dinners at Work are custom programs supporting your workplace commitment to advancing equity and belonging through meaningful opportunities for empathy, understanding, and a safe space to practice talking about race and other difficult topics. Based on Out of Hand Theater’s model of Art + Information + Conversation = Culture Shift ©, Equitable Dinners at Work is our solution to a common problem of embedding diversity, equity and inclusion principles in daily organizational practice and gives you skills to enact it in your context. You will leave this session with:

  • Increased understanding of how the arts activate empathy for people of diverse identities making the lived experiences of others visible.
  • Increased awareness of how using the Art + Information + Conversation = Culture Shift © model supports ease in discussing diversity and inclusion.
  • Increased understanding of how the arts activate empathy for people of diverse identities making the lived experiences of others visible.
Listen Here

 

Adria Kitchens and the Out of Hand Theater Crew

Adria Kitchens has supported people in transforming their lives for over a decade. She specializes in working with executives, experienced coaches, therapists, entrepreneurs, local and global leaders. Adria is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, a Certified Cultural Competency Facilitator, a Certified Feminine Power Coach and Facilitator and Certified Mentor Facilitator specializing in Transformational Leadership based in foundational principles of Appreciative Inquiry. Adria is the Director of Equity & Activism for Out of Hand Theater. She is co-designer of the Institute for Equity Activism, and leads a coalition of impassioned leaders connecting our communities, bringing awareness to inequities, and activating Anti-Racism action through art and courageous conversation.

Adria has many years’ experience supporting the growth and development of new and emerging organizations. Ms. Kitchens began her career in Neuroscience at Yerkes Primate Center at Emory University. She holds a Faculty Appointment with the Feminine Power Global Leadership Program, an international leadership program serving thousands globally in transformational virtual training and workshops. She has master’s degrees in accounting & financial management and business administration and a bachelor’s in Natural Sciences. Her passion is supporting people and organizations in catalyzing change from the inside out.

The Forum on Workplace Inclusion®
2211 Riverside Ave, CB 54
Minneapolis, MN 55454
workplaceforum@augsburg.edu
(612) 373-5994

[/db_pb_menu]
Photos by Sarah Morreim Photography
Privacy Policy