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Can allyship be fun? Or do you envision every inclusion or diversity training as a slog? It doesn't have to be so heavy-handed!Today, Jeannie Gainsburg shares why, as a cisgender woman, she became a strong ally. We tackle how to get over the heaviness and blame of allyship and focus on having conversations with an open heart. We discuss pronouns and why sharing your pronouns (even if they seem obvious) is a great ally action. She also offers the best ways to gather pronouns from others without making it awkward. We talked about what being out and authentic at work looks like. Finally, Jeannie shares a few concrete tips and policies for creating a more LGBTQ+ inclusive workplace.Her encouraging, passionate, and warm-hearted approach will surely jumpstart even the most tentative ally.To access the episode transcript, please click on the episode title at www.TheEmpathyEdge.com Key Takeaways:There are many causes to fight for - just pick one and start going. Fighting for rights for one, is fighting for rights for all.People want to learn, so encouragement, not judgment, is critical.We all use pronouns all day, every day. It doesn't only affect those who are transgender. "Being an ally is an ongoing journey of messing up. We need to get comfortable with and understand that. Don't let the fear of messing up or not knowing the right word stop you from having conversations, and know how to apologize. Just have the conversations with an open heart." — Jeannie Gainsburg Episode References: Daniel Jahn, The Empathy Edge Podcast: Racial Solidarity and the Psychology of RacismLeo Caldwell, The Empathy Edge Podcast: Why Anti-Trans Laws and Homophobia are Anti-BusinessWe Can Do Hard Things podcast with Glennon DoyleBrand Story Breakthrough course to help you craft a clear, compelling brand story - includes weekly office hours with Maria!About Jeannie Gainsburg, Founder, Savvy Ally ActionJeannie Gainsburg is an educational trainer and consultant in the field of LGBTQ+ inclusion and effective allyship. She is the founder of Savvy Ally Action, a small business that offers fun, accessible, and encouraging workshops and videos on how to be an ally to the LGBTQ+ community. Before forming the company, she spent 15 years working for the Out Alliance, the LGBTQ+ center in Rochester, NY.Her book, The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2020, with the revised 2nd edition published in March 2023.Jeannie has a BA in psychology from Brown University and an MA in social work and social research from Bryn Mawr College. She is the recipient of the Empire State Pride Agenda's Community Champion Award and the Rochester LGBTQ Community Appreciation Award. In 2019, Jeannie also received a citation from the New York State Assembly for Distinguished Educational & Human Rights Services for her work in promoting LGBTQ+ rights and inclusion.Connect with Jeannie Gainsburg: Savvy Ally Action: savvyallyaction.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jeannie-gainsburg Facebook: facebook.com/savvyally Instagram: instagram.com/jeanniegainsburgauthor Book: The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate (2nd Edition)Bonus: 100% of royalties from 1st-year sales of the 2nd edition are donated to LGBTQ+ nonprofits working to create a more inclusive world!Join the tribe, download your free guide! Discover what empathy can do for you: http://red-slice.com/business-benefits-empathy Connect with Maria: Get the podcast and book: TheEmpathyEdge.comLearn more about Maria and her work: Red-Slice.comHire Maria to speak at your next event: Red-Slice.com/Speaker-Maria-RossTake my LinkedIn Learning Course! Leading with EmpathyLinkedIn: Maria RossInstagram: @redslicemariaX: @redsliceFacebook: Red SliceThreads: @redslicemaria

Recorded live in New York, Fall 2011

Julie and Gregory discuss her passion for social justice and purpose are common threads even when she talks with people and selects projects. Her clients and community partners describe her working style as creative, personable, and authentic. She appreciates the discipline of a project plan, as well as the space needed to innovate. Today, our special guest is a Human Resources professional by training and lifetime student of history, music, and art. She has over 15+ years of professional experience spans across international, national, state, and local organizations. In 2004, she started working as a Community Organizer for the Empire State Pride Agenda, a New York State lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) non-profit advocacy organization. In 2006, she began her HR career working for the leading national education non-profit, Teach for America. The bulk of her HR career was with UNICEF New York Headquarters, where she held a wide variety of roles supporting international staff in-country offices worldwide. She specialized in helping emergency duty stations in the Middle East and North Africa, Western and Central Africa, and Eastern and Southern Africa regions, working on various HR systems projects. Building upon her experience as an HR professional and combining her passion for technology, she now works for an HR software company supporting US-based HR professionals. She is thrilled to be learning new skills and expanding her HR toolbox. She writes daily and enjoys photography, running, hiking, playing the piano, and listening to music from the 80s and 90s. During her time at home in 2020, she discovered new hobbies, including sidewalk chalking, hammocking, and gardening. This is an episode that is surely worth exploring every minute of their discussion. Tune in and listen. #kut2thachase #podcast #unscripted #unbridled #episode4everyone #E74 #iwriteichalkitakepitcures #satx #sanantonio #sanantoniopodcast #sanantoniopodcaster #sanantonioinfluencer --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kut2thachase/support

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” ― audre lorde When I started this podcast last year, I started with a vision of centering the narratives of Black women around menopause and ageing that resonated with me. Of course that meant that as cisgender, Black, heterosexual woman born and raised in the American South I needed to check myself on the fact that menopause, and all of the complexities that comes with it and ageing, doesn't just happen to cis hetero women. If this was going to to truly be a liberatory healing space of transformation for all my siblings (and some nibblings too) on this journey, it's critical to include the voices and stories of those who identify as femmes, gender non-conforming, or non-binary as well. We all have a story to tell. I am so honored and excited that my dear friend Mo George agreed to have conversation with me around how she experiences menopause as a queer butch lesbian. Enjoy! Mo George Monique George or Mo (as she is often called) is currently the Program Officer for the NYC Equity Initiative at Open Society Foundations, where she co-manages a portfolio of $3 million dollars. She is also the cofounder of Workers 4 Racial Equity/W4 which launched in 2016 to address racial equity for black workers, as well as connect the issues of affordable housing with the issues of access to quality jobs. Mo's over 25 years of organizing experience begun in college where she worked locally with NYPIRG on varies environmental issues. Upon graduation, Mo began working with SEIU Local 1199 for close to 10 years. After leaving 1199, Mo moved on to become the Lead Organizer at the Empire State Pride Agenda, where she fought for the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. At Pride Agenda, Mo worked on various statewide campaigns including expanding their annual lobby day to over 1000 attendees and also being on the team that developed the organizing strategies that won Marriage Equality in New York State. After moved on from Pride Agenda, Mo joined Community Voices Heard (CVH) as the New York Chapter Director of Organizing. As a proud product of public housing, she felt that her past work at CVH helped to preserve public housing, and the campaign won over $700 million towards that preservation during her tenure. Mo joined Picture The Homeless (PTH) as the Executive Director in January 2017. Mo's organizing work has led her from meetings at the White House, to becoming a Professional Fellow with the U.S. Department of State through their work with the Greater Lakes Consortium out of Toledo Ohio. This work has allowed her to travel across Eastern Europe to places such as Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria, to teach community organizing as well as learn about challenges facing varies Eastern European communities. Mo holds her Bachelor’s degree in Black Studies from SUNY New Paltz and is completing her Master’s in Public Administration. When not working to save the world, she can be found reading a good book, traveling or just relaxing with her partner of over 10 years. Check out our NEW website https://blackgirlsguidetosurvivingmenopause.com/ Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause https://www.bonfire.com/store/black-girls-guide-to-surviving-menopause/ SUPPORT BGG2SM: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/blackgirlsguidetomenopause?fan_landing=true Cashapp $omitutu Venmo @omisade5 Paypal omisadeburney@yahoo.com BOLD https://boldorganizing.org/ Public Allies https://publicallies.org/

Dr. Wilhelmina Perry (85) was interviewed by Angela Denise Davis from her home in June 2020. She talked about growing up in Harlem, her 30-year partnership with Antonia Pantoja, radical activism, and life during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is a community activist, social work educator, spiritual leader, homeless youth and marriage equality advocate, author, and the co-founder of LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent. Dr. Perry holds a masters in social work and a doctorate in human behavior and leadership. She has been a social work professor, administrator of not- for- profit institutions, and community educator. In 2002, she became a member of The Riverside Church and shortly thereafter would become the convener of Marantha, the LGBT ministry. Dr. Perry was a co-founder and Vice President of the Interfaith Task Force for Homeless LGBT Youth.  Under the work of the Task Force, three shelters were opened in local churches. Dr. Perry has been an advocate for LGBT same-gender loving people as well as for marriage equality. She held the position of convener of the Round table People of Color under Empire State Pride Agenda. In 2010, this group reformed itself as an independent organization and would become the LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent. Dr. Perry served as Administrative Coordinator until 2018 when she was voted the Founder Emeritus. Dr. Perry was honored in 2013 with an award from Harlem Pride.  She became a Purpose Prize Fellow in 2014. In 2014, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from LGBT Kwanzaa Community of NYC, Inc.  In 2016 she received the Regina Shavers Legacy Award from Griot Circle, Inc. the oldest organization for LGBT seniors. In 2019, she received the Parity Award. She has received numerous awards and recognitions. Dr. Perry has contributed many articles on LGBT youth, same-gender families, “coming out”, clergy and attitudes towards LGBT people and President Obama's support of marriage equality.  These articles have appeared in Caribbean Life, The Daily News, The Amsterdam News, Huffington Post and The Positive Community. Collections by Michelle Brown interview with Dr. Wilhelmina Perry February 22, 2018 https://podbay.fm/podcast/1209679697/e/1519344000  

Sylvia fought for the inclusion of trans people in NY Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination. Even on her death bed, she meet with the Empire State Pride Agenda for trans rights. Also did you know it was said she threw the first brick at Stonewall? The more you know.

Amazing, incredible, inspiring are but a few words that could be used to describe Dr.Wilhelmina Perry.  She grew up in Harlem with her parents, grandmother, and eight siblings. Her father was a deacon and union leader who sometimes held two jobs to support the family, and her mother also worked outside the home. Dr. Perry was raised in the Pentecostal church in a household filled with a strong sense of community activism and Black pride.  She earned a BA in social welfare and a master’s degree in social work. Perry later earned a doctorate in human behavior and leadership.  She met her life partner, civil rights activist Antonia Pantoja while teaching at San Diego State University in California.  Over the course of their three-decade relationship, they founded the Graduate School for Community Development in San Diego and were mainly involved with social work in low-income communities in both the United States and Pantoja’s native Puerto Rico, to where the pair relocated in the mid-1980s returning to New York in the late 1990s. Following Pantoja’s death from cancer in 2002, Dr. Perry found a purpose by returning to her church roots and joining the Maranatha LGBTQ initiative at Riverside Church in New York City.  She co-founded the Interfaith Task Force for LGBT Homeless Youth. She also worked as a marriage equality advocate for Empire State Pride Agenda and was a co-founder of the LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent. She was honored with the Encore Purpose Prize fellowship, one of the nation’s largest and most popular prizes for people over the age of 60 fighting social inequality and recently joined the advisory board for Zami Nobla.

Alan van Capelle is the CEO of Educational Alliance (www.edalliance.org), a non-profit that serves 50,000 New Yorkers annually. Alan is a born leader, having served as Executive Director of Empire State Pride Agenda at age 27 and then CEO of Bend the Arc, a Jewish Partnership for Justice. What does it take to be the CEO of such significant organizations and what is Alan's advice for those in positions of leadership and our community? Find out this and so much more from this inspiring man!

Continuing on our series on strong women leaders, on Wednesday, March 25, 2015 co-hosts Ina Anthony, Terry Boi Adams and Michelle Brown welcome Dr. Wilhelmina Perry, the founder of the LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent. Dr. Wilhelmina Perry holds a masters in social work and a doctorate in human behavior and educational leadership. She has been a social work faculty, administrator of not- for- profit institutions and community educator. In 2002, she became a member of The Riverside Church and shortly thereafter would become the convener of Marantha, the LGBT ministry. Dr. Perry was a co-founder and Vice President of the Interfaith Task Force for Homeless LGBT Youth. Under the work of the Task Force, three shelters were opened in local churches. Dr. Perry has been an advocate for LGBT same-gender loving people as well as for marriage equality. She held the position of convener of the Roundtable People of Color under Empire State Pride Agenda. In 2010, this group reformed itself as an independent organization and would become the LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent. Dr. Perry currently serves as Administrative Coordinator Dr. Perry was honored in 2013 with an award from Harlem Pride. She has received recognitions from Empire State Pride Agenda and GLAAD. She became a Purpose Prize Fellow in 2014. In 2014, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from LGBT Kwanzaa Community of NYC, Inc. She has contributed many articles on LGBT youth, same-gender families, “coming out”, clergy and attitudes towards LGBT people and President Obama’s support of marriage equality. These articles have appeared in Caribbean Life, The Daily News, The Amsterdam News, Huffington Post and The Positive Community.