Save the Date: Tuesday, August 25th @ 4-6 pm (3rd of 3 trainings)
REACH Institutional Equity Trainings & Fundraiser
- First Training, June 30th, 4- 6 PM: “Creating Critical Equity Spaces during COVID-19, Belonging and Retention on the Virtual Campus”
- Second Training, July 28th, 4-6 PM: “Institutional Equity: Best Practices”
- Third Training, August 25th, 4-6PM: “Sustainability: Building a Culture of Equity on Campus”
Dear Partners,
Due to all of the transition that our organization has experienced this year coupled with a necessary response to COVID-19, Campus Compact of Oregon is pushing the date of our annual fundraiser back a month as well as shifting the focus and format. Generally, Campus Compact’s Annual Fundraiser takes place in the spring as an in-person luncheon for our campus members and partners. However, given our current context, in lieu of an in-person event, we will be hosting a virtual fundraiser in the form of institutional equity training!
The training will explore the following topics:
The 3-part training series will explore the following topics:
Support the work of our organization by donating to these trainings!
Cost Per Person of Participation, cumulative (suggested donation):
Suggested cost of attending 1 training - $60.00
Suggested cost of attending 2 trainings - $125.00
Suggested cost of attending 3 trainings - $150.00
For those who have already committed to sponsoring our organization, eight champions of racial equity can participate in our training without further cost. Sponsors can send 15-20 individuals from their campus, thank you for your continued support!
If you are not a sponsor and would like to send a larger group, discounted costs are as follows:
Group of 10-14 People = Discount of $10/person
Group of 15-20 People = Discount of $15/person
Please contact us if you would like to bring a larger group than 20 people.
**Donation details will be sent upon registration
These events have a cap of 250 people/session.
FACILITATOR BIOS:
Carmen Brewton Denison is the Co-Executive Director of Community Engagement at racial justice and educational equity-focused non-profit organization, Campus Compact of Oregon. In this role, she supports the development and implementation of racial justice programming in partnership with 2- and 4-year colleges and universities, K-12 schools, government, and nonprofit entities across the state of Oregon. She also coordinates Campus Compact’s Community Advisory Boards, community engagement and educational initiatives. Beginning her career as an artist, Denison’s work drew heavily upon histories of social intervention, anti-colonial and anti-racist pedagogy, and Black Feminist critique. Ultimately, Denison’s creative practice led to work in social and racial justice with the co-founding of the Creative Activism Lab in 2013 with an Innovation Award from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Since then, Denison has worked on collaborative projects with Portland’s houseless community, youth at the Donald E. Long Detention Center, the Portland Housing Commissioner Office, faculty at Portland State University, Portland Community College, youth and mentors at Friends of the Children: Portland, to name a few. In addition to this, Denison supported the development of interdisciplinary and socially engaged-programming in Marylhurst University’s art department, where she taught critical theory and interdisciplinary thesis writing. She currently works with students in Portland State University’s University Studies Program, Wayfinding Academy, and the Pacific Northwest College of Arts Critical Studies Program.
Kaycie López Jones currently serves as the Co-Executive Director of Internal Equity with Campus Compact of Oregon, an educational nonprofit focused on racial justice and educational equity. In this role, Kaycie is responsible for leading/administering our organizational Racial Equity Roadmap process, (including staff onboarding, internal office care and community accountability processes), internal office structures/processes/procedures, supporting our organizational policy review and recruitment/hiring processes. In her previous role with Campus Compact, as Educational Equity Program Manager, Kaycie developed and independently managed 2 state-wide critical mentorship programs that serve and center youth whose identities have been historically marginalized and minoritized, primarily focusing on Black & Brown youth, Indigenous youth, first-generation youth, and low-income youth. Kaycie holds a B.A. in Environmental Analysis: Human Behavior from Pomona College and an M.A. in International Development and Service with a focus in Intercultural Communication and Intercultural Education. Kaycie also facilitates racial justice//educational equity//intercultural competence trainings both as an independent contractor, and as a member of her newly created intercultural equity consulting group, Asan/López Jones. Additionally, Kaycie is a Qualified Administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), a tap dance teacher, and recently served as adjunct faculty at Marylhurst University. Prior to her employment with Campus Compact of Oregon, Kaycie worked for the City of Portland’s Bureau of Development Services where she helped launch the citywide Racial Equity Roadmap initiative, and as a youth educator for 12 years prior.
Keela Johnson is a current Adjunct Instructor at Portland State University. Her work also includes, but is not limited to, Systemic Oppression and Equity Consultant to multiple non-profit organizations, as well as the Board Chair for The Center for Trauma Support Services of Portland. Keela holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology and received her Master’s Degree in Conflict Resolution from Portland State University. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Social Work at Portland State University. Keela has been working in the social justice field for over 10 years and enjoys providing space for individuals to share their lived experiences about life in an oppressive social structure. She has worked with the Independent Police Review and Citizen’s Review Committee of Portland to assist in understanding how trauma experienced in the social structure can keep communities from utilizing the services provided by the agency. At Resolutions Northwest, Keela worked as a facilitation specialist and dialogue coordinator for their Understand Racism program. She also works with local law offices to bring a restorative justice approach to families of victims/survivors and offenders. Her work with law offices qualified her to be a presenter at the Oregon State Bar Labor and Employment Law Section Annual Conference where she was asked to develop and present a workshop around microaggressions and language. Her work has permitted her the opportunity to provide space for individuals to speak about their traumatic experiences with racism, sexism, classism, and violence, as well as many other oppressive experiences in an unjust society. By facilitating dialogues for the Portland Playhouse Fade to Black Dialogue Series, Keela has gained a great passion for creating space for community healing and connectivity, as well as educating and learning from one another. Assisting individuals and communities, gain empowerment through healing one another in traumatic times is an honor, and she is humbled to provide a much needed resource for community healing to occur and change to happen through purposeful action.
Please feel free to reach out to Carmen Brewton Denison or Kaycie Lopez Jones with any questions. We look forward to seeing you on June 30th for our first training!
Due to all of the transition that our organization has experienced this year coupled with a necessary response to COVID-19, Campus Compact of Oregon is pushing the date of our annual fundraiser back a month as well as shifting the focus and format. Generally, Campus Compact’s Annual Fundraiser takes place in the spring as an in-person luncheon for our campus members and partners. However, given our current context, in lieu of an in-person event, we will be hosting a virtual fundraiser in the form of institutional equity training!
The training will explore the following topics:
- First Training, June 30th, 4- 6 PM: “Creating Critical Equity Spaces during COVID-19, Belonging and Retention on the Virtual Campus”
- Second Training, July 28th, 4-6 PM: “Institutional Equity: Best Practices”
- Third Training, August (last 2 weeks), 4-6: “Sustainability: Building a Culture of Equity on Campus”
The 3-part training series will explore the following topics:
- Racial Equity and COVID-19 response
- Belonging and retention on-campus/ creating a culture of belonging and equity
- Peer to peer mentoring for student success
- Community engagement, accountability, and collaboration strategies
- Creating critical equity spaces
- Higher education best practices for racial justice and institutional change
- Systems thinking and analysis, microaggressions, mentoring, and assessment of student access needs
Support the work of our organization by donating to these trainings!
Cost Per Person of Participation, cumulative (suggested donation):
Suggested cost of attending 1 training - $60.00
Suggested cost of attending 2 trainings - $125.00
Suggested cost of attending 3 trainings - $150.00
For those who have already committed to sponsoring our organization, eight champions of racial equity can participate in our training without further cost. Sponsors can send 15-20 individuals from their campus, thank you for your continued support!
If you are not a sponsor and would like to send a larger group, discounted costs are as follows:
Group of 10-14 People = Discount of $10/person
Group of 15-20 People = Discount of $15/person
Please contact us if you would like to bring a larger group than 20 people.
**Donation details will be sent upon registration
These events have a cap of 250 people/session.
FACILITATOR BIOS:
Carmen Brewton Denison is the Co-Executive Director of Community Engagement at racial justice and educational equity-focused non-profit organization, Campus Compact of Oregon. In this role, she supports the development and implementation of racial justice programming in partnership with 2- and 4-year colleges and universities, K-12 schools, government, and nonprofit entities across the state of Oregon. She also coordinates Campus Compact’s Community Advisory Boards, community engagement and educational initiatives. Beginning her career as an artist, Denison’s work drew heavily upon histories of social intervention, anti-colonial and anti-racist pedagogy, and Black Feminist critique. Ultimately, Denison’s creative practice led to work in social and racial justice with the co-founding of the Creative Activism Lab in 2013 with an Innovation Award from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Since then, Denison has worked on collaborative projects with Portland’s houseless community, youth at the Donald E. Long Detention Center, the Portland Housing Commissioner Office, faculty at Portland State University, Portland Community College, youth and mentors at Friends of the Children: Portland, to name a few. In addition to this, Denison supported the development of interdisciplinary and socially engaged-programming in Marylhurst University’s art department, where she taught critical theory and interdisciplinary thesis writing. She currently works with students in Portland State University’s University Studies Program, Wayfinding Academy, and the Pacific Northwest College of Arts Critical Studies Program.
Kaycie López Jones currently serves as the Co-Executive Director of Internal Equity with Campus Compact of Oregon, an educational nonprofit focused on racial justice and educational equity. In this role, Kaycie is responsible for leading/administering our organizational Racial Equity Roadmap process, (including staff onboarding, internal office care and community accountability processes), internal office structures/processes/procedures, supporting our organizational policy review and recruitment/hiring processes. In her previous role with Campus Compact, as Educational Equity Program Manager, Kaycie developed and independently managed 2 state-wide critical mentorship programs that serve and center youth whose identities have been historically marginalized and minoritized, primarily focusing on Black & Brown youth, Indigenous youth, first-generation youth, and low-income youth. Kaycie holds a B.A. in Environmental Analysis: Human Behavior from Pomona College and an M.A. in International Development and Service with a focus in Intercultural Communication and Intercultural Education. Kaycie also facilitates racial justice//educational equity//intercultural competence trainings both as an independent contractor, and as a member of her newly created intercultural equity consulting group, Asan/López Jones. Additionally, Kaycie is a Qualified Administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), a tap dance teacher, and recently served as adjunct faculty at Marylhurst University. Prior to her employment with Campus Compact of Oregon, Kaycie worked for the City of Portland’s Bureau of Development Services where she helped launch the citywide Racial Equity Roadmap initiative, and as a youth educator for 12 years prior.
Keela Johnson is a current Adjunct Instructor at Portland State University. Her work also includes, but is not limited to, Systemic Oppression and Equity Consultant to multiple non-profit organizations, as well as the Board Chair for The Center for Trauma Support Services of Portland. Keela holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology and received her Master’s Degree in Conflict Resolution from Portland State University. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Social Work at Portland State University. Keela has been working in the social justice field for over 10 years and enjoys providing space for individuals to share their lived experiences about life in an oppressive social structure. She has worked with the Independent Police Review and Citizen’s Review Committee of Portland to assist in understanding how trauma experienced in the social structure can keep communities from utilizing the services provided by the agency. At Resolutions Northwest, Keela worked as a facilitation specialist and dialogue coordinator for their Understand Racism program. She also works with local law offices to bring a restorative justice approach to families of victims/survivors and offenders. Her work with law offices qualified her to be a presenter at the Oregon State Bar Labor and Employment Law Section Annual Conference where she was asked to develop and present a workshop around microaggressions and language. Her work has permitted her the opportunity to provide space for individuals to speak about their traumatic experiences with racism, sexism, classism, and violence, as well as many other oppressive experiences in an unjust society. By facilitating dialogues for the Portland Playhouse Fade to Black Dialogue Series, Keela has gained a great passion for creating space for community healing and connectivity, as well as educating and learning from one another. Assisting individuals and communities, gain empowerment through healing one another in traumatic times is an honor, and she is humbled to provide a much needed resource for community healing to occur and change to happen through purposeful action.
Please feel free to reach out to Carmen Brewton Denison or Kaycie Lopez Jones with any questions. We look forward to seeing you on June 30th for our first training!
Sponsor The Event!
By becoming a sponsor or hosting a "table" (8 people to send to the training), you will show your commitment to providing education that is accessible and empowering for all students. Sponsorship demonstrates your support for our shared goal to increase equity within higher education!
Douglas Fir Level: $4,000+
The tallest tree in Oregon (and the state tree!) is the Douglas Fir. Douglas Fir sponsors receive 1 free all-day training (6hrs) on racial equity, a newsletter feature, their logo onscreen at the event, premium table placement at the event, a full page program advertisement at the event, and a complimentary table (8 seats) at the event.
The tallest tree in Oregon (and the state tree!) is the Douglas Fir. Douglas Fir sponsors receive 1 free all-day training (6hrs) on racial equity, a newsletter feature, their logo onscreen at the event, premium table placement at the event, a full page program advertisement at the event, and a complimentary table (8 seats) at the event.
- Chemeketa Community College
Cypress Level: $2,000+
The widest tree in Oregon is a Lawson's Cypress. Cypress sponsors receive a newsletter feature, their logo onscreen at the event, advertisement at the event and on our website, and a complimentary table (8 tickets) at the event.
The widest tree in Oregon is a Lawson's Cypress. Cypress sponsors receive a newsletter feature, their logo onscreen at the event, advertisement at the event and on our website, and a complimentary table (8 tickets) at the event.
Sitka Level: $1,000+
The oldest tree in Oregon is a Sitka Spruce. Sitka sponsors receive a newsletter feature, their logo onscreen at the event, advertisement at the event and on our website, and 5 complimentary tickets to the event.
The oldest tree in Oregon is a Sitka Spruce. Sitka sponsors receive a newsletter feature, their logo onscreen at the event, advertisement at the event and on our website, and 5 complimentary tickets to the event.
Ponderosa Level: $500+
The most commonly occurring tree in Oregon is the Ponderosa Pine. Ponderosa sponsors receive a newsletter feature, their logo onscreen at the event, advertisement on our website, mention in the event program on the list of sponsors, and 2 complimentary tickets to the event.
The most commonly occurring tree in Oregon is the Ponderosa Pine. Ponderosa sponsors receive a newsletter feature, their logo onscreen at the event, advertisement on our website, mention in the event program on the list of sponsors, and 2 complimentary tickets to the event.