2nd Annual Addressing Racism & Bias for Providers 6/1/23 - 6/2/23

2nd Annual Implicit Bias & Racial Bias Conference. 2-Day in-person conference 6/1/23 - 6/2/23, hosted on Duwamish Territory (Seattle, WA) at the Duwamish Longhouse. This conference is a unique space for the embodied understanding of how implicit bias and racism affect relations within our communities and our professions.  We will be providing a safe space for participants to understand and unpack systemic racism & bias in a professional setting and develop tools for safe, inclusive, affirming communication, deepening of action that promotes cultural humility, decolonization of relationships, shifting power & accountability, and the overall healing for our community.

Lunch and light breakfast & refreshments are included in your registration. Boxed lunches will be ordered upon registration from Conscious Eatery Seattle.

Keynote: Dr. Ben Danielson (University of WA)

'No More Disparities Talk'. Shifting the language assertively and unapologetically to justice, brilliance, and the duality of pain and joy.

Keynote: Dr. Sharon Knight (DSK Culturally Responsive Educational Services, LLC)

Free Your Body-Mind-Spirit by developing your capacity to constructively cope with Racism, Heal from Internalized Racial Inferiority/White Superiority, & Manage Race-Based Trauma (RBT)

Guest Facilitators: JanMarie Ward & Cindy Gamble (American Indian Health Commission)

Cultural Humility & its Relevance to Racism & Cultural Bias among Indigenous Communities 

Guest Facilitator: Jaqxun Darlin (Everybody Midwifery)

Gender-Affirming Reproductive Health: Evidence-Informed Care for Trans and Non-Binary People

Guest Facilitator: Marinah Farrell (Indigenous Birth) & Stevi Kamphaus (Transformative Somatics)

Using Somatics to Embody Accountability and Shift Power Dynamics

Guest Facilitator: Davinah Simmons (Rooted Birth Doula Services)

Taking Up Space: Our Responsibility to Our Nervous Systems

Guest Facilitator: Carrie Horwitch (Virgina Mason)

Improve communication through medical improv

**See our facilitator's full bio's HERE