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Resistance through Resilience

Mindfulness in anti-racism work

In collaboration with the Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity, the Resistance through Resilience program is a new training and speaker series that focuses on the application of mindfulness and compassion-based practices to interrupt racism and its intersections. Our speakers and dialogue participants come from a broad range of disciplines and backgrounds at the UW and beyond, from lawyers, to social workers, to development consultants and meditation teachers.

Join us as we explore the mindfulness practice movement through anti-racism and equity!

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Resistance through Resilience:
CCDE 7
th Annual Conference 

May 18-19, 2022


Consisting of a two-part listening session and a panel discussion, our CCDE/UWRL Resistance through Resilience conference showcased dialogues from program participants alongside elements of the Resistance through Resilience curriculum. Continue reading for session descriptions and recordings.

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Morning Listening Session
Wednesday, May 18, 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.

Our morning listening session centers three sets of dialogues on the themes of resistance through resilience and introduces the practice of radical listening. A somatic grounding practice and a self-compassion break are introduced by UW community members.

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Afternoon Listening Session 
Wednesday, May 18, 1-2:30 p.m.

Our second session centers a dialogue on the themes of resistance through resilience and introduces the process of serial testimony. Breathing, gratitude, and peace and kindness practices are led by UW community members.

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Spotlight Panel – Resistance through Resilience Speaker Series 
Thursday, May 19, 5-6 p.m.

A panel of four community leaders as they reflect on, expand upon and even complicate notions of resistance through resilience.

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Featured Speakers

Aggie Briscoe

Aggie Briscoe – Retiree, Information Systems 
Briscoe (she/her) grew up in rural East Texas during the Jim Crow era. She received a B.S. in Mathematics from Texas Southern University intending to become a teacher.  Instead, her first job was as a computer programmer in the aerospace industry in Southern California. She met her husband Edward in Los Angeles and began a life of adventures that would lead them to reside in Hawaii, the Cayman Islands, and the US Virgin Islands before returning to California. After years in the information systems industry, Aggie retired to become a full-time grandmother to her three grandchildren who have kept her involved and growing. When her daughter’s family decided to relocate to Seattle in 2021, Aggie came along. In addition to exploring the Seattle area, she continues to enjoy practicing yoga, reading, playing Wordle and Trivia, and doing family research.     

 

India Ornelas

India Ornelas – Interim Chair, Department of Health Systems and Population Health, School of Public Health 
Dr. India Ornelas (she/her) is Interim Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington. She serves as the Director of the MPH Core curriculum in the School of Public Health. She currently teaches and mentors graduate students in the areas of social determinants of health, health promotion and community engagement.  Her research focuses on understanding how social and cultural factors influence the health of Latinos and American Indians.  She collaborates with communities to develop, implement and evaluate health promotion interventions in the areas of mental health, substance use and cancer prevention. She received a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, a MPH from the University of Washington and a PhD in Health Behavior from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   
  

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Jaye Sablan – Assistant Director of Core Programs, UW Graduate School 
Jaye Sablan, MA (CHamoru, first gen, she/her) is Assistant Director of Graduate Student Affairs in The Graduate School, University of Washington. She centers equity in her work to develop holistic graduate student support on themes related to wellness, community building, and professional development. Jaye is co-editor with Jane Van Galen, of Amplified Voices, Intersecting Identities: First-Gen PhDs Navigating Institutional Power (Brill Sense, 2021). With Bill Mahoney and Ziyan Bai, she has co-authored pieces on equitable access to graduate student services—focusing on first-gen, international, and minoritized graduate student populations. These writings appear in Inside Higher Ed and A Practitioner’s Guide to Supporting Graduate and Professional Students, edited by Valerie A. Shepard and April Perry (Routledge, 2022). 
 

 Marsha Rule

Marsha Rule – Retired Editor, UW Medicine Online News 
Marsha Rule (she/her) is a former journalist and corporate communications professional. Born in Mississippi and raised in St. Louis, Marsha has lived in Seattle for the past 45 years. She has a passionate commitment to intergenerational learning, particularly around issues of race and gender equity. As a participant in the UW Center for Communication, Difference and Equity’s Interrupting Privilege seminars, Marsha has experienced the transformative power of shared stories to engender personal and collective strength, resilience and understanding of the myriad of intersections in which we all live. She enjoys running, reading, and playing make-believe with her delightfully imaginative five-year-old grandson. 
 

 

 


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