Understanding our LGBT Family

Description

Welcome to Peace in Action! We are Dr. Gerri Budd and Professor Donnalynn Scillieri, and are very happy to meet you and to share our university experience with you. We are excited to provide you with the tools you need to effectively implement inclusion, equality and belonging to become marketable, viable and proficient employees.

We founded Peace In Action to help you in your career goals. Our company is a certified Small and Women Owned business, and certified to do business with the federal government.

As you learn with us, you will become able to differentiate the effects of the lack of inclusion in personal and professional spaces, and apply new tools to expand your career as a better candidate for employment, colleague and friend. Upon completion, our students will be able to recognize the ongoing cultural debates about systems of oppression including: patriarchy, racism, classism, gender biases, heterosexism and sexism. Students will become better allies with their newly acquired language to support oppressed people, and will assist in creating settings for efficient relationships. Students will be able to operate beyond diversity, and establish a culture of belonging. Graduates of this course will earn a Certificate of Completion.

Peace in Action, Inc is an educational firm providing workshops, classes, and programs to help our clients create workplaces and study spaces that are more open, civil, welcoming, and inclusive. The curriculum and material were designed by two university professors to create a safe space to talk about Racism, Sexism and LGBT in the post pandemic world.

Peace in Action, Inc is a Small Business (SBE) and Women Certification Program (WBE) who supplies the tools for everyone to become kinder, and more understanding towards each other in more productive and healthier work or school environments.

Our students acknowledge that we all come from different worlds with preconceived notions about people outside of our social norms, and our students historically thank us for showing them another way to think critically about the world through a lens of social justice. They are thrilled to cultivate within themselves to have a new balance of inclusion, equality and belonging and embrace diversity.

“I recognize and value that by becoming an active ally in my professional and personal life, I live peacefully because of the balance of inclusion, equality and belonging.” - Donnalynn

“I do not believe that the pinnacle of a student's educational experience is to be able to agree with me. Rather students should discover their own ideas based on reasoned inquiry.” - Gerri

What You Will Learn!

• With a Certificate of Completion, our graduates will be able to:
• Demonstrate cultural competency to potential employers with their interest in and knowledge of inclusion, equality and belonging;
• Understand socially constructed systems of oppression, patriarchy, gender biases, and  heterosexism;
• Articulate the intersections betweeen different forms of gender oppression.

Who Should Attend!

• Job seekers, recent university and trade school graduates, and people transitioning into new careers who want to enhance their resumes.

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