Virtual Allyship Workshop - March 11 & 12 (2-day workshop)

What does it mean to be effective allies to people of color in our work for racial equity? Whitney Parnell, executive director and co-founder of Service Never Sleeps (SNS), will lead an intensive, fast-paced webinar series designed to explore how to use individual and collective areas of privilege to advance racial justice. Using SNS’ CLAIM framework (Care, Learn, Act, Influence, Maintain), this workshop will explore what it means to adopt an Allyship lifestyle.

If you seek to promote racial equity within your organization, this workshop will equip you with tools to be an active ally for racial justice through methods of naming white privilege, centering people of color, navigating intersectionality across identities, influencing others, and continuing your own self-work journey. You’ll leave this workshop committed to the Allyship lifestyle, and prepared to facilitate change in your own workspace.

Please note that this virtual workshop is only for individuals who live or work in Alexandria, Virginia. The original Allyship workshop is a day-long session, but will be divided into two virtual sessions on Zoom. Please only sign up if you are able to attend both dates (Thursday AND Friday from 9:30am - 12:30pm) and you are able to use the Zoom platform. The workshop will NOT be recorded, but resources will be shared after. This session is also a pre-requisite for the Allyship in Action, 6-month deeper dive series with Whitney.

Allyship workshops sell out very quickly, but we will be taking a waiting list. Please add your name and we will contact you if space becomes available.

DATES/TIMES

Thursday, March 11, 2021, Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm

Friday, March 12 , 2021, Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm

*Please select the first date when purchasing tickets, and you will be registered for both webinar sessions. The cost to participate is normally $100 per person, but thanks to generous donors, we are offering the workshop for $75 per person. If you need scholarship assistance, please email Brandi Yee at brandi.yee@actforalexandria.org. If you would like to contribute to a scholarship fund, please make your donation at checkout.

FACILITATOR

Whitney Parnell

Whitney Parnell is a Black millennial activist, singer, and the Founder and CEO of Service Never Sleeps (SNS), a nonprofit that empowers individuals and communities to catalyze social justice through service and Allyship. She grew up between Latin America and West Africa as a Foreign Service child. At Washington University in St. Louis, Whitney doubled majored in English and Spanish, and minored in Communications and Journalism, during which she also embraced her calling as an activist. Whitney’s passion for service and social justice brought her to Washington, DC to serve with City Year, and then work in homeless services. Whitney is excited to create a movement of service and allies by igniting quick social change through mass civic engagement. Whitney is also a musician, and is releasing a social justice album called "What Will You Do," with the goal of using empathy through song to ignite action. All album proceeds will go to Service Never Sleeps.