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Truth Hunter from the University of Connecticut and Shani Collins from Connecticut College walk us through their process of how they disrupt dominant ideas about dance while cultivating a space for dancers to find themselves and even help them find a voice they didn't know they had.

Here’s a fantastic example of how you can make advocating for yourself and for others work for you with vulnerability. This is a story of how to use self-advocacy and advocating for others for more dignity and respect with the one and only, cheerful, light-hearted, yet courageous Zahida Sherman, Director of Culture & Belonging at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

Delanie Fischer is joined by Zahida Sherman, a diversity and inclusion professional who shares how she stays organized while balancing a variety of responsibilities, the feelings she navigates doing this work, and how she cares for herself in seasons of heaviness and overwhelm. This guidance is great for people who work in education, caregiving, advocacy, and other service-oriented fields.

In this episode, Corinna Bellizzi sits down with Janae Peters, co-creator of the Antiracist Development Group for managers of color. Janae explains how leaders can find the right affinity spaces where they can experience personal growth and fully understand intersectionalities affecting their decision-making processes. She also discusses how to avoid burnout when advocating for work equity, which is now in jeopardy with the DEI conversation being caught in a political firestorm.