Guided in-person Workshops and Offerings

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As one of a select few R1 Hispanic-Serving Institutions in the U.S., diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to our mission.

Learning is coordinated with partners across University campuses to provide training and skill development opportunities aimed at helping create a community where each of us defines all of us. A variety of presentations and workshops on diversity, equity and inclusion are available to faculty and staff for all schools, colleges and units with most free of charge.

We recognize that many departments may have specific and unique needs that are best addressed not through a fixed set of trainings, but through collaborative, customized sessions built around the needs of your department or team.

Whether you're hoping to address a specific topic like inclusive leadership, bias, accessibility, or equity, or simply want to begin a conversation, our staff will work with you to shape a session that makes sense for your context and goals.


Requesting a Customized Workshop or Training

  1. Complete the workshop request form
    Start by filling out the DEI Workshop Request Form, which asks about your group’s needs, audience, and preferred timeline. Then, email the completed form to us at diverse@unm.edu.

  2. We’ll follow up
    Once we receive your completed form at diverse@unm.edu, one of our staff members will connect with you to talk through the details and begin planning your workshop.

  3. We build it together
    Based on your department's needs, we’ll create a workshop — or a series of sessions — that aligns with your goals. Most workshops are available to UNM departments at no cost.

 

PREMADE GUIDED WORKSHOPS AND OFFERINGS


Safe Zone

The Safe Zone training is a capstone program of the UNM LGBTQ Resource Center. The four-hour training covers topics such as:

Intersections of Identity, Microaggressions, the Coming Out process, creating equitable spaces for Transgender individuals, and more. Specialized trainings in the medical community and mental health providers are forthcoming.

The LGBTQ Resource Center will be hosting open Safe Zone workshops for students, staff, and faculty. These workshops will be held via Zoom, preregistration is required. All attendees must complete the entire workshop to receive their certificate of completion.

Scheduled Safe Zone workshops can be found on the LGBTQ Resource Center's website.

Smaller, more specific Safe Zone workshops can be provided upon request. For questions or more information, please email: safezone@unm.edu 

Interrupting Intersectional Microaggressions (IMAs) on Campus:

An Upstander Workshop

Research has shown that racial and intersectional microaggressions (RIMAs), “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color” (Sue, et al., 2007) are a threat to inclusive climates in higher education.

Though RIMAs can be subtle and are often dismissed by perpetrators, their effects can cause anger and often drain the psychic energy of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC, including Latinx, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI), and multiracial individuals) emotionally and physically (Pierce 1969, 1970, 1974; Solorzano 1998; Sue, et al 2003; Sue 2010).

Unfortunately, RIMAs create inequities in education, employment, health care, and housing. Implicit bias can lead to racial microaggressions (NEA Center for Social Justice).

In this interactive workshop, we introduce the concept of intersectional microaggressions (IMAs), define IMAs on the basis of results from campus surveys, and we provide participants with the opportunity to practice interrupting microaggressions

Note: We either can cover several types of IMAs, or focus this workshop on specifically on disability, age discrimination, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression (SOGIE), immigration status, etc, all with an intersectional lense.


The Power of Social Justice Work on Campus:

UNM’s Action Plan for Building and Sustaining an Inclusive Climate and Culture

In this presentation, we review UNM’s progress on the 2040 Strategic Vision, Goal 3, Inclusive Excellence. We summarize the objectives within goal 3, and discuss its alignment with our membership in the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities (HSRU), and lead small group discussions to invite participants to reflect on what makes UNM distinctive as a Hispanic Serving Research University and an Minority Serving Institution, and ways in which the various constituency groups can support the teaching, scholarly, and engagement missions of UNM.


The Strategic Advantage of Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Inclusion

In this workshop, we Introduce UNM’s Division for Equity and Inclusion goals and tools. We then discuss organizational theory and research examining the strengths of diversity, and how to build an inclusive work an volunteer environment. We conclude with your thoughts and discussion concerning next steps to enhance equity and inclusion.


Workshops offered as a series or separate experiences

Justice, Equity, Accessibility, & Diversity: leading for a culture of inclusiveness

This is a workshop (part one of a series of four) that is designed for nonprofit entities that asks: Why is it important to bring a justice, equity, accessibility, diversity, and inclusion (JEADI) lens to the work of your workplace, company, or group? We discuss Diversity and inclusion synergies, and we delve into Useful case studies to develop promising practices, and finally consider A theory of intentional institutional social change. This workshop is grounded in small group work and discussion. And we end with recommendations of ways to get involved in community work to grow critical consciousness. 

 

Experiences advocating for equity in New Mexico: an interactive workshop to explore promising practices for non-profit organizations

This workshop is part two of a series that is designed for nonprofit entities. The learning objectives follow. Discuss organizational theory and research examining the strengths of diversity, and impact of racial & intersectional microaggressions (RIMAs) and implicit bias and how to build an inclusive work environment in non-profit philanthropic organizations. Share examples of experiences with RIMAs and implicit bias from published studies. Critical to achieving the mission of your nonprofit, we explore ways to interrupt IMAs and implicit bias. And finally, we discuss next steps to enhance justice, equity, accessibility, diversity and inclusion (JEADI).

 

The Struggle for Inclusivity in Non-Profit Organizations, Part 1: Preparation

This workshop is part of a series that is designed for nonprofit entities. We begin with building an understanding the struggle for inclusivity in non-profit organizations from an intersectional perspective. And then we work with participants to do the following:

  1. examining the history of your nonprofit organization in the context of your region, state, and local community, and
  2. charting push and pull factors promoting and challenging inclusivity in meeting the goals of your nonprofit organization.

EXAMPLES OF PAST WORKSHOPS & TRAININGS OFFERED

  • Interpreter Language Services: Best Practices
  • Becoming an Advocate for Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility
  • DiversityEdu: Skills for Academic Searches and Hiring (v2a)
  • Bystander Discussion | Comentarios Constructivos (English & Spanish version)
  • Using Data to Create Your Unit's Strategic Plan for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
  • UNMH Culture & Diversity Annual Competency
  • Protecting the Pack: Preventing Trolling, Doxing and Zoom Bombing Doxing, and Zoom Bombing
  • Equity & Diverse Pedagogies
  • Best Practices in Faculty Search
  • Unlearning Racism
  • Intersectionality: Encompassing All Identities
  • Identity Matters (LGBTQ Diversity for Frontline Ed)
  • Creating and Inclusive Environment (DDI)