Rebecca Slaby

As executive director, Rebecca Slaby leads AmazeWorks in working with schools, communities, and organizations to create equity and belonging for children and adults. She has provided dozens of workshops and trainings on anti-bias education with a focus on cultural responsiveness, bias, identity and stereotype threat, microaggressions, and other DEI topics and she has co-authored two AMAZEworks curriculums.

With a Master of Education from DePaul University, she has 15 years of experience teaching middle school humanities/social studies and has worked with schools and organizations on issues of equity, inclusion, and justice on institutional, state, and regional levels. She has been a racial justice facilitator for the YWCA Minneapolis and is a trained cultural competency facilitator for the Professional Educators Licensing and Standards Board for the state of Minnesota. She has presented at the Overcoming Racism Conference, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, The Forum on Workplace Inclusion, and local, regional, and national education conferences.

Rebecca holds a certificate in executive leadership from the University of St. Thomas and teaches courses on equity-based pedagogy at the University of Minnesota. She also sits on the boards of Upstream Arts and the First Universalist Church of Minneapolis.