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=Project Name: On Positionality: Working From Awareness to Action: Identifying and working through barriers to doing anti-racist work=

This project aims to develop, test, and refine a positionality workshop program for NDSU faculty, administrators, and staff to help them understand and work through their positionality in order to better serve stakeholders who identify as traditionally marginalized persons in higher education. The final aim of the project is to develop a workshop program that would be available to all NDSU faculty, staff, and administrators.This workshop Programming will focus on the ways to identify one’s positionality (e.g., understanding layers of privilege and how privilege and marginalization impacts one’s position), strategies to respond and work through any resultant guilt and shame with a focus on self-compassion as a tool to develop empathy, and following lessons that focus in on different areas of life (e.g., work, daily life activities, social media) given what one knows about their positionality. These workshops will The intent of this program is not cover similar content to replace excellent existing programs and books written created by BIPOC who discuss the impact of racism and concrete ways that white people can be allies and work toward racial justice – instead, the workshop goal of this project is to create an intervention that seeks to help individuals be ready to do the work of being an engage with anti-racistprogramming, learning, and action.

*December 2022: Develop outline of Positionality Workshop. Complete literature review of best practices in working through positionality (including my own work and research).