BDN Workshop Series: Transforming from a Victim to a Flourisher: Addressing Microaggressions with the Identity Capital

Description of the Workshop:

The workshop’s purpose is twofold:

To equip participants with the resilience-building tools to practice self-affirmation by recognizing their identity attributes such as race, nationality, language, and culture as the capital, providing sources of well-being and strength instead of a burden.

To address the dynamics of racial microaggressions by identifying non-defensive communication and self-empowerment strategies that are research and context-based.

The facilitator will demonstrate how self-empowerment strategies can enable participants to flourish as professionals. Participants will customize the self-affirmation worksheets for resilience-building and goal-setting.

Intended Audience:

Graduate students, Professional students, Faculty and Industry Professionals

Intended Experience Level:

Beginner

Presenter Bios:

Emrakeb is an Ethiopian seventh-year Ph.D. candidate in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Oregon, USA where she is a part-time Graduate Employee (Teaching Assistant/Research Assistant/Admin for Graduate Studies with families. She earned all her higher learning education abroad, with two Master's degrees in Media Studies from Rhodes University, South Africa, and Politics & International Relations from Pondicherry University, India. She was a media lecturer at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia for seven years before coming to Eugene in September 2017. Emrakeb was a journalist/editor in the Ethiopian media and the African continent. She was the editor-in-chief of The Sub-Saharan Informer, a regional daily newspaper, and designated editor of the Highway Africa News Agency (HANA) in South Africa. She is also a media activist who has worked for press freedom and women and girls' rights in Africa. She co-founded and was president of the Ethiopian Media Women's Association (EMWA) and the Secretary-General of the African Editors Forum (TAEF). Emrakeb's research interests include health communication campaigns, development communication, political communication, global and international communication, and identity formation of marginalized groups such as women, unemployed youth, audience survey of legacy, and new media. Her dissertation project evaluates the the-15-year of "No Woman Should Die Giving Life '' Behavioral Change Communication (BCC) Campaign: A Case Study of Ethiopia's Reaching MDG4 and its probable application to Global South communities in Global North. Emrakeb is married and a mother of two boys aged 16 and 14.

Follow Up:

A Zoom link will be provided via email, after you sign up, to everyone who registers for this event .

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NOTE: This workshop series will be audio and video recorded.