VBSR Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) Training Series – Spring 2024
From Awareness to Action: JEDI Training Series with Experts Tabitha Moore and Rachel Siegel
Join VBSR, Tabitha Moore from Intentional Evolution Consulting, and Rachel Siegel from Toward Liberation, LLC, for a four-part training series addressing some of the core competencies of Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI).
Participants will deepen their understanding of Unconscious Bias, Microaggressions, Class & Classism, and Power Dynamics, building awareness, knowledge, and skills supporting change at both the individual and collective level; from personal evolution to organizational transformation.
Individual trainings are $45 for VBSR members and $65 for nonmembers. VBSR Members who register for all four trainings receive a discounted rate of $150 (savings of 20%/$30 per person).
Sessions will be held virtually in March and April 2024:
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- Unconscious Bias with Tabitha Moore
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
10:00 – 11:30 a.m. - Microaggressions with Tabitha Moore
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. - Classism with Rachel Siegel
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
3:00 – 4:15 p.m. - Power Dynamics with Rachel Siegel
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
3:00 – 4:15 – p.m.
- Unconscious Bias with Tabitha Moore
Click on the links above to learn more about each session and register.
Note: Participation is limited to 35 people per training and expected to sell out.
Meet Your Facilitators
Tabitha Moore, Ph.D. (she/they)
Owner & Principal Consultant, Intentional Evolution Consulting, LLC.
Tabitha Moore is a mother of three and the owner of Intentional Evolution, LLC. She has consulted on identity-based equity for 20+ years, working extensively within mental health, law enforcement, education, and child welfare. Tabitha earned her Bachelor of Arts degree, the Psychology of Latin America in the Context of Its Language and Culture, from Wells College where she graduated with distinction for her research on women’s identity development in the Dominican Republic.
She earned her master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Syracuse University and is a licensed Family Therapist. She is completing her doctoral degree in Transformative Social Change at Saybrook University.
Tabitha is the founding president of the Rutland Area Branch of the NAACP and serves as a Cultural Equity Editor for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Tabitha was awarded the Rights and Democracy Human Rights Award (2020), NAACP Rutland Lifetime Achievement Award (2021), and the Wells College Outstanding Young Alumnae Award (2021).
Rachel Siegel (she/her)
Toward Liberation, LLC
Rachel (she/her) is a white, queer, Ashkenazi Jewish mother, artist, activist, organizer, and educator on unceded Abenaki land in the Historic North End of Burlington, VT. She worked as the Executive Director of the Peace & Justice Center, served on the Burlington City Council, and ran programs at Vermont Works for Women before founding Toward Liberation.
She was a founder and board member for Vermont Access to Reproductive Freedom, co-founded and co-coordinated the Old North End Mutual Aid network, and has coached and continues to volunteer for Center City Little League.
Rachel believes in collective liberation and envisions a world free of chains. She is an anti-racist, anti-diet culture, intersectional feminist. She brings her work forward from a place of compassion and curiosity with hope for the world.
Thank you to our JEDI Programming Sponsors:
GMP is creating a thriving, cost-effective, clean energy future for Vermonters and doing groundbreaking work to transform the electric grid into a resilient and sustainable system for all communities. GMP powers homes and businesses with energy that’s 100% carbon free and 80% renewable on an annual basis, and will be 100% renewable by 2030.
GMP is the first utility in the world to become a B Corp and continues its commitment to use energy as a force for good, partnering with customers on innovative programs that cut costs and carbon emissions while boosting resiliency and equity.
Since 1970, King Arthur Baking Company has been sharing the joy of baking. A certified B Corp headquartered in Vermont, King Arthur is the ultimate baking resource, providing the highest quality ingredients for the most delicious baked goods, while inspiring connections through baking. As a 100% employee-owned company, we believe in the power of baking to make a difference for our employee-owners, the larger baking community, and the planet.
From cultivating a workplace that embraces differences and prioritizes trust to teaching children across the country how to bake bread from scratch to partnering with farmers and suppliers who share our vision for a greener planet, we strive to be a force for good in all that we do.
Since 1990, White + Burke has filled a specialized role within real estate development projects, bringing value-added strength to achieve our clients’ real estate project goals. By offering a comprehensive range of services in both development and brokerage, White + Burke is a client’s extended real estate department.
Our breadth of work includes taking clients from site selection and project planning through financing, permitting, and construction oversight, to turnkey. Across the northeast we serve a variety of sophisticated clients each with specific opportunities and a focus on success.
Thank you to our JEDI Programming sponsors – Green Mountain Power, King Arthur Baking Company, and White + Burke – for helping to make this programming accessible while ensuring fair compensation to our professional facilitators.
Interested in sponsoring this programming? Contact Jeremy Gerber at jeremyg@vbsr.org.
Questions? Please reach out to VBSR Education & Events Manager, Molly Rand, mollyr@vbsr.org.