Strategizing for DEIA-Related Change in Dumpsterfire Times™

Note: Purchasing a ticket will give you access to BOTH sessions (session 1 is on 2/3 and session is on 2/9). Upon registration, the facilitator will send you a calendar invitation to both sessions in this series!

The people are living in and surviving incredibly tumultuous, uncertain and oppressive times - this is especially for multiply-marginalized people who are always-already targets of violence. It makes sense that so many of us are scrambling to figure out how to best offer each other care and protection while managing our own wounds, fatigue, and burnout.

In the spirit of finding creative ways of influencing change as marginalized people, anti-oppression facilitator Yejin Lee (she/they) will be offering a two part workshop series in February 2026 focused on building responsive strategies for equity-based change amid the specific nuances of these dumpsterfire times™. These sessions are designed specifically for comrades working within institutions whose leaders are responding to the reality of these times by divesting from equity-based work.

Session 1: Influencing DEIA-Related Change as Marginalized Staff
Tuesday, February 3rd from 2:30-5:00pm EST
Alternate Date: Thursday, February 5th from 2:30-5:00pm EST

During this first session, Yejin Lee will provide participants with a strategic framework to support marginalized staff in identifying entrypoints for meaningful advocacy and change while acknowledging, negotiating, and sometimes pushing the limits and edges of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility (DEIA) work at their organizations. Yejin will also support folks in surfacing the kind of tangible care required to sustain these efforts during such turbulent times.

Session 2: Influencing Leaders in Service of Equity, Care and Protection
Monday, February 9th from 2:30-5:00pm EST
Alternate Date: Wednesday, February 11th from 2:30-5:00pm EST

During the second session of this series, Yejin will identify different types of archetypal leaders, and how they might be influenced to make decisions in service of the protection and care of marginalized staff and community members. They will also support participants in accessing and developing the shape of their engagement, disruption, and influence through their unique set of skills, abilities, strengths, knowledge, and passions.

Participants will receive robust follow-up materials from Yejin following the workshop series, including a comprehensive and tailored workbook to help this community translate their learnings into concrete practices.

IMPORTANT NOTES

• Backup Dates: In case of emergency, illness, or technical difficulty, Yejin has scheduled backup dates for both sessions of this series. The backup date for session one is Thursday, February 5th from 2:30-5:00pm EST, and the backup date for session two is Wednesday. February 11th from 2:30-5:00pm EST. Please put a hold on your calendar just in case!
• Recording: These sessions will be recorded and made available to all registrants for 60 days following the event. Captions will be enabled, and the transcript will also be sent along with the recording. Since this is taking place via Zoom Meeting and will encourage interactivity, folks will have the option to request pausing the recording before they speak. The chat will also be shared, but Yejin will scrub everyone’s names from the document for added safety.
• Pricing: Yejin utilizes a justice approach to pricing, and trusts everyone to honestly locate what they are able to spend. 30 free community tickets are available to multiply-marginalized sweeties, and more seats will become available with every purchase of a “sponsor” type ticket.
• Follow-Up: All registrants will receive a comprehensive follow-up message, which includes the recording/transcript/chat/slide deck, additional resources (e.g. articles, podcast episodes), and a workbook to support internalization and application of the session.

Yejin Lee (she/they) is a queer, genderfluid, neurodivergent, 2nd gen Korean cutie comrade who works as an anti-oppression practitioner, coach and consultant. They facilitate equity-based transformation processes and catalyze generative introspection for folks interested in deepening their material commitment to liberatory praxis. Centering people of intersecting marginalized identities who experience oppressive harm, they support building practices and eco-systems of care in service of survival and liberation.

As a result of their recent return to queerness and their current explorations around their neurodivergence, Yejin seeks to make room for wholeness, softness, and lightness in and beyond their work. They are an uncertified silly goose, an anti-colonial sweetie, and love spending time dancing in anime cosplay on TikTok, playing drums, gardening, hiking, and building community around their special interests!