**This event will be recorded**

How we show up at work has much to do with how we employ our identities, strengths, and gifts at the workplace. As described by the Feminist Freedom Warriors Project out of Syracuse University, “All of us live complex lives that require a great deal of juggling for survival. What that means is that we are actually living at the intersections of overlapping systems of privilege and oppression.”

Join Executive Director, Meredith Curry, as she'll reveal the Acknowledge-Accept-Adapt model and engage in mindful breathing, an important coping mechanism to handle the stresses of career, school, and navigating your life journey. In this session you’ll learn how to:

• Acknowledge your intersectionalities
• Accept your challenges and strengths
• Adapt to opportunities which often includes letting go of what no longer serves you. By knowing who you are now, you position yourself to seek opportunities that align with your skills and strengths today.

Come to the workshop with an open mind and heart! Though work spaces often discourage and disregard exploration of our identities as a matter of policy and/or culture, that doesn’t mean YOU can’t take the necessary steps to bring your authentic self to work. With that in mind, exploring our intersectionalities can lead to both immediate, short-term changes for your own life, as well as sustained, long-term shifts for you, your team, and your org culture.

About Meredith:

Meredith “Mer” Curry (she/her) serves her community as a Black and Filipina Bay Area native, advocate, and nonprofit leader.

She is the Executive Director for the Northern California College Promise Coalition (NCCPC), Director of Education Partnerships for Moneythink, a 2020-21 National College Attainment Network (NCAN) Federal Advocacy Fellow, an established nonprofit consultant with clients across California through her firm AdvancED Consulting, LLC, and an avid volunteer. Mer serves as the Chairperson of the Santa Clara County Commission on the Status of Women and a board member of LEAD Filipino in California. Mer is also passionate about dance (especially hip hop!) and uses it to heal, build community, and tap into the loving energy that binds us all.

Mer’s mission is to use her strengths, gifts, network, and entrepreneurial mindset to develop and scale systems and best practices centered on equity while educating and empowering everyday leaders of all intersections.

Learn more about Mer at http://www.meredithcurry.com/.