Cultural Humility, a framework introduced by Jan Murray-Garcia and Melanie Tervalon, came out of the healthcare profession as an anti-racist response to the conventional Cultural Competency model.  At Dominican University, we have been using the Cultural Humility principles to guide service-learners in recognizing, challenging, and analyzing racialized power dynamics and structural inequities in their daily lives and community engagement.  

We are grateful for the existing video contents and materials created by esteemed colleagues from other institutions--Vivian Chavez of San Francisco State University and Juliana Mosley on Cultural Humility principles and practices, Robin DiAngelo on White Fragility, Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality, to name a few.  Our objective is to create accessible and approachable curations of these materials as foundational training for our service-learners (and faculty, community partners, or anybody interested) in their community engagement work.

The Cultural Humility Training Modules are co-created and curated by Emily Wu and Stephany Vallejo, under the auspice of Dominican University's Center for Community Engagement and Social Justice Department, with the financial support of a Wabash Center grant for Social Justice Pedagogy.   

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Emily S. Wu is the Assistant Director of Service-Learning Program at Dominican University.  She works closely with local community partners on creating community engagement opportunities for Dominican students, including co-developing community-based projects with the community partners.  Besides teaching undergraduate level  Service-Learning designated Religion and Social Justice courses, she also trains and supports other Service-Learning faculty.  Dr. Wu is first in the nation to receive from Campus Compact, the leading national coalition of universities and colleges committed to community engagement, micro-credentials in both Community Engagement Fundamentals and Community Partnerships.  

Stephany Vallejo is a graduate of Dominican University's Teacher Credentialing masters program, and a Social Studies teacher at Griffin Academy in Vallejo, CA.  As a Teacher of Color (TOC) herself, Ms. Vallejo researched and authored her masters thesis on the racialized dynamics of Teachers of Color amongst their White colleagues (see Module 3).  Her voice also  interlaces throughout the introductory Cultural Humility Training modules to provide explanations for the various interconnected concepts related to Cultural Humility as an anti-racism framework.