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Understanding your role and identity is foundational to effective community work. This training is designed to help you explore yourself, power, and privilege in community engagement settings. Participants will develop a framework for critical self-reflection to build more equitable, respectful, and impactful relationships with community partners. Through guided activities, you will learn to articulate your own positionality, recognize how systems of power operate, and aim to create mutually beneficial relationships.
This workshop will be facilitated by Sarath Suong. In 2000 while at Brown University, Sarath co-founded Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM) with Kohei Ishihara. PrYSM mobilizes queer Southeast Asian youth, families, and allies to build grassroots power and organize collectively for social justice. In addition, Sarath is the founding Board Co-Chair of the Alliance of Rhode Island Southeast Asians for Education (ARISE), and National Coordinator of the Southeast Asian Freedom Network (SEAFN).