We live in a diverse world.
Let's work together to make it more inclusive.
Zahida Sherman (she/her) is a compassionate and strategic educator, consultant, and writer. As a Seattle native with Afrocentric and social justice centered roots, she draws on her lived experience as one of the few Black people in predominantly white spaces to empower others to create safe and inclusive cultures.
Zahida holds a master’s in African history from Northwestern University, and a bachelor’s from Ithaca College, with majors in Africana Studies [self-designed] and anthropology.
She currently works as the inaugural director of diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Southern California Institute of Architecture. You can find her musings on adulthood, culture, race, and gender in Bustle, Globe & Mail, and the Onbeing podcast, among others.
SERVICES
DEI OFFICE HOURS
Attending a diversity and inclusion training is easy. Implementing the tools and lessons learned from the training is the challenging part. Invite members of your team to meet with me one- on-one to dive into lingering questions, challenges, concerns, or workshop material to better implement your diversity and inclusion needs. Sessions are typically 30-minutes long, but can be extended.
DEI Audits
Need support identifying DEI strengths and roadblocks to your organizational goals? Sign up for a comprehensive review of your organizational policies and culture to galvanize performance, innovation, and belonging.
workshops
Are you looking to move your organization to the next level of D&I? Our menu of workshops and trainings aim to increase your level of cultural awareness, confidence, competence, skills, and organizational culture around issues of identity, belonging, and inclusion.
Uncomfortable Conversations: How to Talk About Race in Your Space
How can you facilitate conversations with employees/students/colleagues about one of the most uncomfortable topics in US society—race? This session will provide you with tools and real life examples to engage with race and racism in your space.
Self-Advocacy for Marginalized Groups
Self-advocacy and imposter syndrome can be daunting, especially if you’re from a marginalized background. In this workshop, participants gain tools to effectively identify what they want and need to thrive in their company and authentic approaches to getting it.
Unconscious Bias
Equitable Antiracism
Creating an Antiracist Culture
Equitable Feedback
Promoting Black Equity & Belonging
As the Black Lives Matter movement gains global momentum and employees and students demand accountability from leadership, many companies are reevaluating their antiracist culture and strategy. How do you ensure that your actions and leadership is actively antiracist, sustainable, and accountable to Black members of your community? This workshop supports participants in reflecting how anti-Black racism “shows up” in their roles and learn strategies to challenge anti-Black racism.
So You Want to Be Antiracist: Now What?
If you are already familiar with phrases like”White Fragility,” “Optical Allyship,” or “Antiracism,” but are overwhelmed and unsure how to start your journey, this session is for you. In this workshop, participants will gain new frameworks to understand racism, learn best practices for being antiracist, and develop personal strategies to stay committed to antiracism.
Zahida Sherman is an incredible and experienced DEI leader and facilitator. She carried out DEI workshops for our management team to help us frame our DEI work and set our strategy going forward. She spent the time to learn the organization and to understand the team’s experience with DEI work and tailored her approach accordingly. I could not recommend her more highly!
Sara Nathan
President & CEO, Amigos de las Américas
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Becoming actively antiracist is practice. Just like meditation, mindfulness, and karate, it involves practice. And if you’re not practicing, you won’t change.
Myisha T. Hill; activist, speaker, entrepreneur
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