Public Speaking
Victoria offers a variety of keynotes related to race, racism, implicit bias, microaggressions, social identity, discrimination, student affairs, activism, and allyship.
Virtual Course
Recognize. Challenge. Change.
Recognize. Challenge. Change. is an honest conversation about our increasingly interconnected and diverse world. Participants will challenge myths regarding the historical and present-day distributions of power, investigate the role of racism and anti-racism in social, professional, and educational spaces, and feel empowered to analyze their own social identities and positions within systems of power.
Keynotes & Workshops:
A Little Black Book On Confronting Anti-Blackness
Many US institutions and organizations continue, on a system level, to perpetuate anti-Blackness, period. This program focuses on personal reflection and growth opportunities to combat internalized anti-Blackness and its manifestations on various levels of the college experience. Some manifestations of anti-Blackness include: white favoritism in socialization, risk-management practices, and Black representation in leadership.
Learning Outcomes
As a result of attending this program, participants will:
Increase their levels of awareness of deeply internalized anti-Black bias and its manifestations within education, the workplace, media, and community life
Be empowered to identify, challenge, and change implicit and explicit cultures of anti-Black bias within the selves, their organization, and their community
Be equipped with a toolkit of knowledge, background, vocabulary, and strategies to combat bias and support marginalized members and communities as active allies.
Implicit Bias: What We Don’t Think We Think
Many organizations, companies, and universities may be ill-equipped to support the growing diversity of college student populations, professional organizations, and the increasing demand to speak out against bias. It is more important than ever to support students, staff, institutions, and organizations with knowledge and resources to be active and intentional allies to marginalized communities and in the broader communities in which they move.
Learning Outcomes
As a result of attending this program, participants will:
Be empowered with the knowledge and strategies necessary to know when and how to recognize and intervene in against bias and marginalization
How to identify the differences between passive allyship, performative allyship, saviorship, and active allyship
How to operate out of a growth mindset and embrace the many ways to identify how to consistently practice self-introspection; to leverage one’s own power and privilege toward active allyship.
What do we mean, “Values Based Organizations”? Race, class, and gender in Fraternity and Sorority Life
Fraternities and sororities have a long and storied history. Some aspects are positive and worth accolades. Others are marked by exclusion, hate, and vitriol. We can’t tell the stories of our organizations, or fully understand our groups without a full picture of the history of race, class, gender, and sexuality in fraternity and sorority life. Let’s move past the information on the website and in the new member education pamphlet.
Learning Outcomes
As a result of attending this program, students will:
Gain a greater understanding of the historical relationships between privilege, identity, bias, discrimination, and fraternity/sorority life specifically as it relates to race, class, gender, and sexuality
Become more familiar with each National Council/Umbrella organization
Understand and honor the culturally based fraternal experience
Acknowledge the discriminatory history of many fraternal organizations
Recognize the impact of stereotype threat phenomenon
Locate ways privilege, bias, and discrimination continue to permeate the fraternity/sorority experience
Identify means to generate welcoming and affirmative spaces for all students who seek membership in fraternities and sororities