4:00-5:30pm Awareness Seminar Presented by Mynesha Spencer
Our “Beyond Sight” Awareness Seminar is predicated on the fact that public service institutions will never be better than the individuals responsible for managing them- and public school systems are no exception. Public schools across the nation will never be more inclusive, more equitable or more culturally competent than the educators who lead in these learning spaces. Thus, this 80 minute long awareness seminar will offer educators the unfiltered opportunity to look deep within in order to detect and eradicate biases, prejudices and or stereotypes they may have with regards to certain groups of students and their families, respectively. The facilitator will prescribe ways in which educators can help combat prejudice and racial hostility by fostering a sense of belonging for all students and their families, instilling respect for all people in all spaces of the public school system.
Ms. Spencer earned an Administration of Justice degree from the Thomas F. Freeman Honors College of Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas May of 2015. She continued her collegiate studies at the University of Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain as required by the Foreign Language Department where she earned a second bachelor’s in Spanish. Thereafter, she completed professional studies at Washburn and received a Legal Studies degree with certificates in both Civil Rights and Criminal Law. Mynesha currently serves as the Chief Inclusion Strategist at All of Us, Together Co., a diversity consulting firm established to improve human relations via applied training and workshop facilitation. The firm works to equip large and small workforces, educational entities, for-profit and non-profit organizations, and municipal, state and federal governments with the knowledge and resources that enables space for all people. Mynesha has spent the last 5 years of her professional experience working to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion and knows from her experience in the public sector that, “Public service institutions will never be better than the individuals who manage them” and is therefore driven to help entities thrive in human relation management.