OPENING DAY 2021 PROGRAM - TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH HEALING, EQUITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE AUGUST 26TH, 2021 - ELAC
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OPENING DAY 2021
PROGRAM
TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH HEALING, EQUITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
AUGUST 26TH, 2021
OPENING DAY 2021 TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH HEALING, EQUITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
AGENDA
Registration 8:00am - 8:45am
Register on the Vision Resource Center Here
Welcome and Introduction 9:00am - 9:30am
Join Here
Nancy Ramirez, Ph.D., Professional Francisco C. Rodriguez, Ph.D., LACCD Chancellor
Development Coordinator Alberto J. Román, DPA, President
Steven Veres, President of Rosa Mendoza, ASU President
LACCD Board of Trustees
Keynote Speaker 9:30am - 10:30am
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Panel Discussion 10:30am - 11:15am
Panel Discussion: Transforming Lives Through Healing, Equity, and Social Justice
Session A 11:25am - 12:35pm
Concurrent Sessions
Lunch 12:35pm - 1:05pm
Lunch Activities: Virtual Tables, Resources Folder
Session B 1:05pm - 2:15pm
Concurrent Sessions
Session C 2:20pm - 3:15pm
Department and Unit Meetings
Concurrent Sessions
Pre-Recorded Webinars
Closing Session/College Updates 3:15pm - 3:30pm
Join Here
Alberto J. Román, DPA, President Nancy Ramirez, Ph.D., Professional
Jeffrey Hernandez, Academic Senate President Development Coordinator
Michele Benjamin, Ph.D., AFT Chapter President
Social Hour 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Join us for raffle prizes and community building!
Hosted by The Alumni Association.
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OPENING DAY 2021 TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH HEALING, EQUITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
IN CONVERSATION WITH DR. IBRAM X. KENDI
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award Winner and #1 New York
Times Bestselling Author. Dr. Francisco Rodriguez, LACCD Chancellor, will interview Dr. Kendi to
uncover how all nine campuses can continue their commitment to build an anti-racist institution
and addresses the district’s Framework for Racial Equity and Social Justice.
ABOUT DR. IBRAM X. KENDI
IBRAM X. KENDI is one of America’s foremost historians and leading antiracist scholars. He is
a National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of eight books. Dr.
Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and the Founding Director of the
Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. He is also the 2020-2021 Frances B. Cashin Fellow
at the Radcliffe Institute for the Advanced Study at Harvard University. Dr. Kendi is a contributor
writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News Racial Justice Contributor. He is the host Be Antiracist with
Ibram X. Kendi, a new podcast he’s launching on June 9th with Pushkin Industries and iHeartMedia.
In 2020, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
For more information about Ibram X. Kendi’s work, please visit this website.
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OPENING DAY 2021 TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH HEALING, EQUITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
WELCOME
We welcome you to our virtual Opening Day as we embark upon our “call to action”
agenda for the 2021-2022 academic year. The recent commemoration of ELAC’s 75th
anniversary offers us an unparalleled opportunity to embrace the many milestones
accomplished as well as to reflect on the issues of equal rights, current injustices, and
the underlying impact of Covid-19. The focus of Opening Day is building a campus
ethos and an equity-minded community by assessing and promoting system
reform, policies and practices that foster healing through social justice initiatives.
By addressing the inequitable experiences of trauma and oppression within our
historically underserved and underrepresented students and employees of color,
we can then begin the journey and implement action steps to bring all students and
employees to succeed and thrive. With that in mind, today’s workshops emphasize
culturally responsive teaching and practices to make learning encounters more
relevant and effective for our students. Overall, this professional learning day will
inform faculty and staff how to create system-level change on our campus through
innovation, networks, reflection, and mindfulness.
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OPENING DAY 2021 TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH HEALING, EQUITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
Workshop Title Presenter Names Workshop Summary & RSVP Session
Bearing Witness Dr. Mays Imad In this session we will briefly consider the A
as an Act of neuroscience of toxic stress and its impact on
Love, Resistance, our ability to engage, connect, and learn. How will
and Healing we welcome our students and colleagues to our
institutions and classrooms this fall? What can we,
educators, possibly do to help attend to their mental
health and ameliorate their exhaustion and distress,
while at the same time, intentionally engaging
in self-care? We will examine the principles and
practical examples of trauma-informed approaches
and reflect on the connections between trauma-
informed education, healing, and restorative justice.
Register Here
Perspective Dr. Norma Vega CGEE will explore global education and perspective A
Taking and Dr. Lynn Vogel- taking. Participants will watch a video on this
Global Education Zuiderweg important topic. They will then interact in an
activity that highlights this global skill.
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Recruiting and Michele Benjamin This workshop focuses on defining implicit and A
Hiring Diverse Ken Chaiprasert explicit biases in the workplace, current ineffective
Faculty Stuart Souki hiring strategies, and active strategies to recruit,
support, and retain a more diverse faculty.
Register Here
Equity Audit Julienne Bernard A dialogue fostering a critical space for faculty A
Dialogue Allen Coson and staff to deepen our understanding of and
“Opposing the Raeanna Gleason commitment to anti-racist and equity-minded
Erasure of Asian educational frameworks. This dialogue is part
Eileen Ie
Americans, of a year-long series of dialogues as part of the
Pacific Islanders, Rongwen Liu California Community College Equity Leadership
and Native Davinder Sangha Alliance intended to build a campus culture that
Americans” David Song emphasizes education as a space rooted in
Kelly Velasquez empathy, allyship, solidarity, and empowerment.
Register Here
Session A 11:25am - 12:35am Session B 1:05pm - 2:15pm Session C 2:20pm - 3:15pm
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OPENING DAY 2021 TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH HEALING, EQUITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Workshop Title Presenter Names Workshop Summary & RSVP Session
Assessment of David Hale This workshop reviews how program review A
Healing, Equity, Laura Cruz-Atrian connects to healing, equity, and social justice.
and Social PRVC Co-Chairs will highlight/explore connections
Justice Through detailed in State, LACCD, and ELAC policy/processes.
Program Review Recommended for Department Chairs and Unit Leads.
Register Here
Introduction to Mandy Concoff Break free from traditional costly classes in this A
OER: Join the Kronbeck workshop about open educational resources.
Movement! Krishana Intended for those new to OER, participants B
Hodgson-DeSilva will be exposed to important concepts and
myths surrounding this growing movement.
Register Here
Transforming Nora Zepeda This workshop introduces participants to A
Students' Lives Jessica Hansen our Guided Pathways-funded training, the
Through a Arpi Fekstejian Cultural Curriculum Audit, to be offered in
Syllabus & Course Fall 2021. We encourage participants to bring
Dray Banks
Redesign a syllabus to participate in an activity.
Frank Aguirre
Register Here
Financial Jasmine Murillo This workshop will address how to achieve A
Literacy During Shawna Leiba your financial goals through budgeting. We
Covid Times will walk through goal setting, budgeting B
basics and the importance of saving for
unexpected events as well as retirement. C
Register Here
Behavioral Michelle Have you encountered students in mental distress A
Intervention Hernandez or facing social service needs? How can we
Team - Ming-huei Lam assist at-risk or struggling students and promote B
Responding to Yvette Letelier their wellbeing and success? BIT can help!
Students in Crisis Sonia Lopez
& Supporting Register Here
Jessica Peak
Student Success
Patricia Salgueiro
Lisa Vartanian
Session A 11:25am - 12:35am Session B 1:05pm - 2:15pm Session C 2:20pm - 3:15pm
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OPENING DAY 2021 TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH HEALING, EQUITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Workshop Title Presenter Names Workshop Summary & RSVP Session
Understanding Sandy Chavez Participants will engage in conversations focused on A
the Power of Paola Gutierrez the importance of peer-to-peer support and applying
Peer-to-Peer Rowena Smith- social justice frameworks to our programming.
Empowerment: Kersaint Participants will learn how Community Cultural Wealth
Applying is utilized to prepare students as campus leaders.
Community
Cultural Wealth Register Here
in our Leadership
Practice
Essential Kenneth This session addresses the importance of B
Interpersonal Chaiprasert practicing interpersonal skills, such as having
Skills to Advance Rogelio Garcia self-awareness and engaging in difficult
Equity, Social Randall Gust conversations, to advance equity, social justice,
Justice, Anti- anti-racism, diversity, inclusion, and collegiality.
Racism, Diversity,
Inclusion, and Register Here
Collegiality
Umoja Natalina Monteiro Introduce the campus to the Umoja Community B
Community Golden Sheard Program and recruit thought partners. The
Program LaQuita Jones UMOJA Community Program is a critical resource C
dedicated to enhancing the educational
experiences of African Americans/Black Students.
Register Here
Equity Matters Lauren Figueroa The Equity Matters Book Club (Anti-Racist Reading B
Book Club Raeanna Gleason Group) has been meeting since Winter 2021 to
collectively discuss timely texts in order to both
Eileen Ie
strengthen bonds among members of our ELAC
Renato Jimenez
community and to work together to envision a more
Kelly Velasquez just and equitable campus. Join us on Opening Day
for discussion of two of Audre Lorde's groundbreaking
essays: "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle
the Master's House" and "The Transformation of
Silence into Language and Action." Participants
should read the two essays ahead of time in order
to engage more deeply during our discussion.
Register Here
Session A 11:25am - 12:35am Session B 1:05pm - 2:15pm Session C 2:20pm - 3:15pm
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OPENING DAY 2021 TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH HEALING, EQUITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Workshop Title Presenter Names Workshop Summary & RSVP Session
Making the Brown Stuart Souki With this workshop, we kick off our Diversity, B
Act Work for Us: Jeffrey Equity and Inclusion series by critically
Examining Our Hernandez examining issues surrounding the Brown Act and
Senate Through David Hale discussing how to make this law work for us.
A DEI Lens
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Culturally Rosalba Participants will learn how the Community B
Inclusive Wrap Villalobos Cultural Wealth model is used to support students
Around Support: Heriberto in the College Promise Program at East Los
Embedding Gutierrez Angeles College. Participants will hear directly
CCW into ELAC’s from current and former ELAC students.
College Promise
Program Register Here
Maintaining Vernon K. This EAP presentation examines isolation, mental B
Mental and Williams health during quarantine, and grief and loss
Physical during Covid-19. We will discuss how to stay
Health During positive through positive psychology, planning and
Quarantine pursuing goals, the importance of self-care, and
and Isolation strategies for staying mentally and physically fit.
Register Here
Session A 11:25am - 12:35am Session B 1:05pm - 2:15pm Session C 2:20pm - 3:15pm
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OPENING DAY 2021 TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH HEALING, EQUITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
LUNCH ACTIVITIES (12:35 – 1:05 PM)
During your lunch break, please visit our Professional Development website
and select one of the following activities:
· Browse through the Opening Day Resource Folder and select program and resource flyers.
· Attend a Virtual Table.
BREAKOUT SESSION C (2:20 -3:15 PM)
Session C is dedicated to department/unit/office meetings. However, if a meeting is not scheduled,
please either select a workshop OR view one of the prerecorded webinars listed below.
Workshop Title Presenter Names Workshop Summary & RSVP
Umoja Natalina Introduce the campus to the Umoja Community Program and
Community Monteiro, recruit thought partners. The UMOJA Community Program is
Program Golden Sheard, a critical resource dedicated to enhancing the educational
LaQuita Jones experiences of African Americans/Black Students.
Register Here
Financial Jasmine Murillo, This workshop will address how to achieve your financial
Literacy During Shawna Leiba goals through budgeting. We will walk through goal
Covid Times setting, budgeting basics and the importance of saving
for unexpected events as well as retirement.
Register Here
Advancing Dr. Luke Wood Classified professionals and other educators who work with
Equity to Achieve students outside of the classroom play a critical role in the success
Student Success: of community college students, particularly those who have been
Recognizing historically underrepresented and underserved in education. The
the Critical Role current research on underserved students confirms traditional
of Classified approaches to out-of-class support must be reconsidered to
Professionals ensure success among these students. Instead, proactive and
culturally affirming practices are essential to close equity gaps
and advance student success for underserved students.
Watch Pre-recorded Webinar
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OPENING DAY 2021 TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH HEALING, EQUITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Workshop Title Presenter Names Workshop Summary & RSVP
Stress Dr. Barbara Sweet We are facing an unprecedented combination of changes and
Management challenges both at work and at home. Resilience is a crucial skill
Strategies that we need in order to rebound productively in challenging
for Building situations and thrive in uncertain times. In this webinar, you
Resilience in will learn proven stress management strategies to effectively
Uncertain Times respond to the stressors in your life and remain composed
and resilient in challenging situations. Identify the sources and
symptoms of stress, recognize how you respond to stress and
discover strategies for maintaining composed and poised during
uncertainty and changes, learn proven techniques to reframe
work/life challenges to transition to a more proactive, productive,
and refreshed mindset, develop a personal action plan for coping,
managing, and responding effectively to work/life stressors.
Watch Pre-recorded Webinar
Making Your Cathy Jin Are you thinking about changing jobs within LACCD? Navigating
Move: Strategies the process can seem overwhelming! This session will walk
to Navigate the you from deciding where you want to go with your career, to
LACCD Personnel applying, testing, interviewing, and networking in our District.
Commission
Watch Pre-recorded Webinar
Retirement Tom Aduwo Is pension from CalPERS (etc.) sufficient in retirement? Is
Planning for the wait for Social Security benefits too long? Small steps
Classified taken right now, compounded over time, results in better
Employees retirement income. Come learn some necessary steps
necessary to prepare yourself for a better retirement.
Watch Pre-recorded Webinar
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CONCLUDE OPENING DAY WITH US AT
VIRTUAL SOCIAL HOUR 3:30-4:30 PM
SPONSORED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
LOOK FORWARD TO:
COMMUNITY BUILDING
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
TRANSFORMING STUDENT LIVES
During the Social Hour, raffle winners will be announced. Partake in fun
activities, games, and music while sipping on your favorite libation!
$25 eGift cards and other gifts will be awarded.
You may be a Raffle Prize Winner!
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HAVE YOU TRANSFORMED A LIFE TODAY?
Did you know that for less than a dollar a day you can help transform the lives of our students?
www.elacfoundation.com/annual-giving-campaign
“One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced while being a student at ELAC is being
homeless. As a full-time student, it can sometimes interfere with your schoolwork.
Being a full-time student, at times, I have to try and fi nd where exactly am I
going to sleep at night while also trying to maintain my schoolwork.”
-Bela, Student
(For more information on payroll deduction and employee giving, please contact our
Director of ELAC Foundation, Dr. Armond Aghakhanian at (323) 780-6783 or aghakha@elac.edu)
The ELAC Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. Tax ID #33-0034221
OFFICE OF
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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programming, events and services are being
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More information http://bit.ly/ElacProDev
12SPECIAL THANKS
The Office of Professional Development would like
to thank the individuals and offices around the
campus who supported this 2021 Opening Day.
Their effort and support truly made all the difference.
THIS EVENT WAS CO-SPONSORED BY
The President’s Office
Guided Pathways
Title V – Gateway to Success
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Steven F. Veres, President
Gabriel Buelna, Ph.D., 1st Vice President
David Vela, 2nd Vice President
Mike Fong
Nichelle Henderson
Andra Hoffman
Ernest H. Moreno
Coraima Martinez, Student Trustee
DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION
Francisco C. Rodriguez, Ph.D., Chancellor
Melinda A. Nish, Ed.D., Deputy Chancellor
Ryan M. Cornner, Ed.D., Vice Chancellor of Educational
Programs and Institutional Effectiveness
Mercedes Gutiérrez, Ed.D., Interim Vice Chancellor
of Human Resources
Carmen V. Lidz, MS, Vice Chancellor/
Chief Information Officer
Jeanette L. Gordon, Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer
Jeffrey M. Prieto, J.D., General Counsel
Rueben C. Smith, D.C.Sc., Vice Chancellor/
Chief Facilities Executive
ELAC encourages persons with disabilities to
participate in its programs and activities. For
disability accommodation requests for this
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