Power Moves: Transforming Leadership By Centering Diverse Employees With Disabilities

with Justice Shorter, National Disability Rights Networks (NDRN)

This immersive session is designed to equip participants with equitable strategies for recruiting and retaining more Black, Indigenous & Other People Of Color with disabilities.

We will use our time together to focus on issues at the intersection of Racial Justice, disability Justice and Gender Justice.

The session will provide practical perspectives for participants on how to cultivate an organizational culture that reduces harm, responds to critical personal/professional needs, redistributes decision-making power and reimagines superficial/outdated standards of productivity.

Join us as we converse openly about ways to bring forth meaningful and sustained change that centers the collective care and creative capacity of volunteers, employees, contractors/consultants, board members and community partners.

To receive credit for attendance & a certificate of attendance for this session, you must name / identify yourself in ZOOM. Those who do not will not receive attendance credit nor a session certificate.

Justice Shorter joined NDRN in February 2019 as its Disaster Protection Advisor, readily available to support the Protection & Advocacy system with technical assistance and trainings related to disaster protections, emergency management, fire safety and humanitarian crises/conflicts.

As a youth journalist in 2005, Justice began writing professionally on topics related to community development, humanitarian affairs and youth empowerment. Driven to action by these issues, she has studied community development in South Africa, Peace & Post-Conflict Reconciliation in Uganda/Rwanda, periodically returned to her childhood community to teach on subjects surrounding social action/communications and earned a B.A. in Journalism with minors in Justice & Peace Studies from Marquette University.

While earning her MA in Sustainable Development: International Policy & Management, Justice authored three separate inclusion guides for the U.S. State Department and produced multiple people-centered projects via internships with The Hunger Project, World Learning and Women Enabled International.

Justice also interned within the White House Office of Public Engagement & Intergovernmental Affairs where she focused on disability outreach efforts, social inclusion policies and federal agency engagement. In more recent years, Justice served as a Disability Integration Advisor with the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, deploying frequently to disaster areas across America and its territories.

With a steadfast commitment to international development and inclusive humanitarian assistance, Justice continues to participate in ongoing projects as a global advisor and trainer.

This disability events  session may qualify toward APSE CESP CEUs for recertification. Please contact APSE directly, or click HERE for more information for qualification criteria.

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Funding provided by Northumberland County Behavioral Health / Intellectual & Developmental Services and Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services

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