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Track: Everyday social justice and accountability听听

Is it a "Grand Gesture" or a boundary violation? We鈥檝e all rooted for the "hopeless romantic" who can鈥檛 take "no" for an answer, or the "sensitive guy" who uses his feelings to manipulate. But why does pop culture work so hard to make toxic behavior look like true love?听

This interactive workshop puts the "Nice Guy" archetype under a microscope. From classic sitcoms to modern digital narratives, we鈥檒l move beyond the binge-watch to identify the "nudge"鈥攖he subtle camera angles, music, and tropes that trick us into excusing red flags.听

Don鈥檛 just be a consumer; become a critic. We鈥檒l arm you with a Media Literacy Toolkit to spot manipulation in narratives and understand how these tropes shape real-world expectations of dating and professional boundaries. Join us to unmask the tropes, discuss the "ick," and learn to protect your perspective in the digital age.听

About the Facilitator: Jennifer Henriquez, M.A., is a first-generation Chinese-Salvadoran American who serves as both a Career Readiness Coach and English Faculty at CSUDH. As a certified Gallup CliftonStrengths and MBTI Practitioner, she specializes in designing curriculum that intersects positive psychology, rhetoric, and popular culture studies. Her published research and upcoming 2025 book chapter in First Gen & Juice focus on empowering first-generation students through strengths-based philosophies and contemporary media narratives.听

Track: Everyday social justice and accountability听听

Justice stagnates when it is treated as a distant future rather than a present responsibility. This 75-minute workshop invites participants to become rooted in the realities of the places they live. Grounded in the conference theme, 'Weaving Our Power, Rooting Our Future', the session emphasizes that meaningful change happens when being observant, informed, and responsive to our environment meets expression of personal power. Through guided questions, group work, and collective sharing exercises, participants will learn how to identify where injustice shows up in their own communities and how to move from awareness to aligned action without waiting for permission, funding, or further credentials. This workshop centers routine social justice as a practice of integration of self and responsibility. It directs people who are serious about taking action to becoming the leaders they wish they had. Participants will leave with tangible tools on how to practice presence, tap into their personal power and have a clearer understanding of their role.听

About the Facilitator: Alexandra Peek is a community herbalist, death doula and environmental justice practioner. Her work stems from her upbringing in the Chihuahuan Desert, in the border-city of El Paso, Texas. Her work is at the intersection of health, climate and culture, and builds new structurers of the future.听

Track: Everyday social justice and accountability听听听

As women and women of color in these times of constant crisis, there is much to be angry about. But because of colonization, patriarchy, and the way many of us have been conditioned, we may not feel safe enough to fully express, channel, and release such anger. Drawing from her experiences as a Filipino woman, educator and mother, as well as scholarship about third world feminism, wellness, and embodiment, Dr. Stephanie Cariaga will share ways that we can feel through the fertility of anger, tend to the grief underneath our anger, and consider ways to channel our anger into needed transformation. We will practice journaling, dialoguing, and simple movements to get in touch with the powerful wisdom and stories that live in our bodies听

About the Facilitator: Stephanie Cariaga has served Los Angeles for two decades as an English teacher, a founding member of the People鈥檚 Education Movement and now an associate professor in teacher education at 好色先生 Dominguez Hills. Her teaching/scholarship seeks to reintegrate the mind, body, and spirit into classrooms and beyond to provide spaces of wellness and transformation for marginalized students and educators. She is the founder of Critical Embodied Wellness for Educators (CrEW), a space of restoration and resistance that supports educators to teach and lead from the wisdom of their whole selves.听

Track: Leadership, career development, and building power听

Even in feminist and justice-centered spaces, women, especially Black women and other marginalized people are often expected to manage emotions, smooth conflict, and hold communities together without shared accountability. This interactive workshop explores how emotional labor shows up in academic, professional, and activist spaces, and how 鈥渃ommunity care鈥� can quietly slide into self-erasure.听听听

Participants will examine real-life scenarios, reflect on where responsibility is unevenly distributed, and practice language for naming boundaries and accountability without guilt or shame. Grounded in lived experience rather than theory, this session offers practical tools for redistributing responsibility in ways that support sustainable leadership, healthier communities, and more honest collective work.听

About the Facilitator: Kim Nelson-Wright is a leadership strategist and organizational systems advisor whose work centers on power, accountability, and how people are conditioned to manage themselves within inequitable systems. Drawing on over 20 years of experience across consulting, entrepreneurship, and leadership, she helps individuals and organizations name burnout, emotional labor, and 鈥渞esilience鈥� as structural issues鈥攏ot personal failures. Her work supports women, particularly Black women, in building sustainable leadership, boundaries, and agency without self-erasure.听

Sonya Renee Taylor is a New York Times best-selling author, world-renowned activist and thought leader on racial justice, body liberation, and transformational change. In her book The Body Is Not an Apology, she explores the intersections of identity, healing, and social justice through the framework of radical self-love.听

Her work tackles topics important to the historical moment we find ourselves in and the world we have the ability to bring into being, including attacks on reproductive freedom, 鈥渃ancel culture,鈥� and abolition and accountability.听

Keynote followed by Q&A. Light refreshments provided.

The Women鈥檚 Market is where creativity shines! Discover handmade jewelry, natural skincare, succulent arrangements and more, crafted by our community of talented makers. Perfect for treating yourself (or a friend!) and supporting women-owned businesses.

Strike a pose in the photo booth, connect with community orgs, and stop Sustainability鈥檚 Pop-Up Thrift booth to browse free clothing and supplies!

Track: Global feminism and political education听

This interactive workshop explores how storytelling functions as a tool for power-building, political education, and global feminist solidarity. Drawing from her work in narrative change and movement-building, Arij Mikati invites participants to examine how dominant stories shape whose voices are valued and whose are marginalized. Through guided reflection, small-group dialogue, and creative exercises, students will analyze the stories they鈥檝e inherited about gender, race, faith, and leadership and begin rewriting them on their own terms. Rooted in the conference theme 鈥淲eaving Our Power, Rooting Our Future,鈥� this session centers personal experience as political knowledge and emphasizes collective imagination as a pathway to liberation. Participants will leave with practical tools to use storytelling in their communities, careers, and activism.听

About the Facilitator: Arij Mikati is the Head of Programs at Pillars Fund, where she designs and leads initiatives that challenge harmful narratives about Muslims in the United States and amplify Muslim voices in artistic and cultural spaces. With more than fifteen years of experience as a storyteller, nonprofit executive, educator, and creative consultant, Arij brings a multidisciplinary approach to narrative change and leadership. Prior to joining Pillars, she led the persistence team at OneGoal, advancing educational equity nationwide. A devoted anti-racism educator and skilled facilitator, her insights have been featured by Variety, Teen Vogue, NPR, Tiny Spark, and Al Jazeera.听

Track: Leadership, career development, and building power听

Step into your power and take control of your personal brand in this interactive workshop! This session guides participants through a journey of self-discovery, reflection, and hands-on activities to define their leadership identity and unique superpowers. This workshop equips attendees with tools to craft a memorable personal brand, articulate their strengths, and take actionable steps toward leadership and professional growth.听

About the Facilitator: Selena Young is the Co-Founder of BLOS Collective and Define Me Greek. She is a Marketing and Brand Strategist who champions the leadership and power of women and entrepreneurs. From building brands to cultivating experiences, Selena believes every experience is an opportunity to inspire, empower, and elevate others from potential to powerhouses.听

Track: Leadership, career development, and building power听听

Pursuing a career in a male-dominated field? Join us for an engaging and empowering conversation with a panel of women in creative industries as they share their lived experiences navigating spaces where they are often underrepresented. Panelists will discuss the challenges they鈥檝e faced, strategies they鈥檝e used to advocate for themselves, and the lessons they鈥檝e learned along the way. From building confidence and finding community, this discussion will offer practical advice, honest insights, and encouragement for anyone seeking to thrive in male-dominated environments.听听

Co-hosted by the CSUDH Digital Media Arts Club听

Track: Global feminism and political education听

This interactive workshop explores how ancestral storytelling can be practiced as a form of embodied leadership and sacred resistance, particularly when engaging histories shaped by erasure, surveillance, and deficit narratives. Through small-group dialogue and reflective prompts, participants will explore how inherited family narratives, survival strategies, and silences shape how they lead, communicate, and care today. Embodiment practices will explore gentle expansion of self, such as taking up space, through guided movement for those who are able, with modifications offered throughout. Participants will consider how ancestral storytelling can support practical applications such as personal branding, public speaking, narrative development for mission-driven organizations, and articulating values for scholarships or funding, alongside healing and deeper self-understanding. This session creates space for meaning to emerge through embodied awareness, narrative clarity, and relationship to lineage, offering tools participants can carry into academic, professional, and community spaces while engaging in social justice work sustainably without burnout.听

About the Facilitator: Amber Stephens is a SoCal-based Executive Wellness Coach for women with marginalized identities who reported on police brutality, immigrant rights, and social movements as a former journalist, including the Anaheim uprisings for OC Weekly and KPFK Pacifica Radio with an appearance on Al Jazeera English's documentary series, Fault Lines. Her lineage is shaped by Azorean-Portuguese and Chilean immigrant roots on her mother's side and Scottish Appalachian heritage on her father's, who grew up in Compton during the Watts uprising and attended Dominguez High School. Her work integrates ancestral storytelling and embodied leadership to support grounded inquiry, sustainability, and narrative reclamation.听

Track: Leadership, career development, and building power听

This is an interactive workshop that invites participants to explore leadership, self-advocacy, and power beyond perfection and performance. Grounded in intersectional feminist values and lived experience, the session challenges dominant narratives that equate leadership with composure, productivity, and flawlessness.听

Through guided reflection and a hands-on creative activity using preserved rose petals and a shadow box, participants examine how pressure, expectations, and identity shape their experience in academic and professional spaces. Participants are invited to represent themselves as they are鈥攚hole, complex, and evolving鈥攔ather than as they are expected to appear.听

This workshop centers sustainability, internal stability, and identity-anchored leadership as essential tools for building power without abandoning one鈥檚 values or community. Participants leave with a tangible reminder that leadership does not require perfection to be impactful.听

About the Facilitator: Jessica Hunter is the founder of Journee鈥檚 Roses, a Black-owned luxury floral business specializing in preserved roses. Her work is rooted in the belief that feelings, emotions, and lived experiences deserve to be preserved. Through creative facilitation, she creates reflective spaces centered on identity, resilience, and care.听

Track: Everyday social justice and accountability听听

Everyone deserves care that sees them, hears them, and honors their lived experience. This interactive workshop explores how culturally relevant doula support addresses health disparities rooted in racism, sexism, and economic inequity, particularly for Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized communities. Participants will learn how doulas improve the full spectrum of pregnancy outcomes, including birth, postpartum, and abortion, through advocacy, emotional support, and community-based care, while also fostering collective joy, resilience, and connection. The session will highlight birthwork as both a justice practice and a viable career pathway, including emerging opportunities through Medicaid and insurance coverage expansion that are reshaping access to doula care nationwide. Grounded in reproductive justice and women鈥檚 studies frameworks, this workshop invites students to imagine what equitable, community-centered care can look like and how they can be part of building it.听

About the Facilitators: Raina Beigler (she/her) is a Queer Black collage artist, herbalist, postpartum and abortion doula and member of the Birthworkers of Color Collective since 2021. Raina was raised in the Bay area and now calls Long Beach her home. Having dealt with her own reproductive and mental health issues, she is determined to help others get the support and adequate care they deserve. Like a true aquarius, Raina is always creating and envisioning a better world for all.听

Andrea Howard (she/her) is a full-spectrum birthworker, parent, placenta encapsulator, and budding herbalist. She was raised and still currently resides in so-called Long Beach. She grew up in this area and built a life surrounded by the people she holds dear. She identifies as a queer Black woman. Having navigated her challenges with the medical system and understanding the importance of advocacy, Andrea trained with Birth Workers of Color in 2020, focusing on birth work as activism and providing trauma-informed care.听

Track: Leadership, career development, and building power听

Apps of Empowerment is a creative workshop where participants reflect on how technology can feel empowering or disempowering in everyday life. Participants imagine what empowerment would look like if it existed as an app and design an original app symbol based on values- for example, care, rest, connection, or sustainability.听

Each participant creates a unique symbol, and together these designs form a large-scale collective artwork. Through this process, participants are encouraged to practice digital mindfulness by becoming more aware of how and why they engage with the technologies that shape their daily lives.听

About the Facilitator: Jasimen Phillips is a Los Angeles鈥揵ased contemporary artist whose work explores the intersection of technology, environmental sustainability, and collective empowerment. Through large-scale participatory installations, she transforms familiar digital systems into spaces for public dialogue, care, and civic imagination. Her practice centers community collaboration while reimagining how public art can reflect shared futures in an increasingly mediated world.听

Track: Everyday social justice and accountability听

This interactive workshop will focus on social justice values in our everyday lives, especially when situations arise where we have to choose between calling "out", calling "in", calling "on" or even calling ourselves when we unintentionally do harm. Warming up with a personal value-alignment exercise, we'll move through a small group activity where we practice scenarios such as tackling power in the workplace and insensitive comments/microaggressions. 好色先生, we'll do a guided reflection and address any issues or personal experiences that come up. Everyone is welcome, no specific experience or prior knowledge is required. The main goals are to practice communication skills and build confidence when navigating conflict or asking for accountability.听

About the Facilitator: Nour Hassanen is a current international graduate student at CSUDH pursuing an MPA. She has led multiple upskilling and development-based initiatives dedicated to youth empowerment and global citizenship. She is building a portfolio in inclusive policymaking and strengthening underserved communities in California as well as her community in Cairo, Egypt.听

Workshop for Faculty & Staff | Track: Everyday social justice and accountability 听

Harness your influence to foster webs of support and activism!听

Join us as we have a cross divisional conversation about how we can harness our influence and create community to support one another and our students. The current reality often feels overwhelming and impossible to change. Through webs of cari帽o, courage, and our collective voices and activism, we can leverage our influence and advocate for our students and each other. In this session we will be sharing with one another how we do this, the barriers we experience along the way and strategies to navigate these barriers.听听听

About the Facilitator: Yesenia Fernandez is an Associate Professor and recently served as the Interim Faculty Director of OFSYE. She studies how systemic racism in K-16 perpetuates inequities and how this impacts first generation college students, multilingual students and parent-school partnerships. She has helped develop programs for critical teacher professional development for bilingual teachers centering culturally affirming and sustaining practices in schools to resist linguistic hegemony and forced assimilation in our schools. Previously, she served as K-12 district leader where she led several departments of Secondary Education and Multilingual Education, and State & Federal funding. She has been a student and family advocate for over twenty-five years and is a member and board president of the EYCEJ Board of Directors and is involved with other grassroots organizations focused on protecting and healing our communities.听

Spend some time making friends and meeting other like-minded folks at DH! Our happy hour networking event is a space to build community in a fun and easy-going environment.

Non-alcoholic beverages and apps will be provided!