We have asked for your voice! We've heard you, and now we are responding!
Overview
The last few weeks have been particularly challenging for students, more specifically for Black students and BIPOC students. Please join us for this time to gather reflect, acknowledge, recognize, express and be heard.
We are holding two virtual spaces
- BIPOC STUDENTS ONLY SPACE: Wed June 17. Register Now.
- BLACK STUDENTS ONLY SPACE: Thur June 18. Register Now.
Please note both events will take place from 5:30–7 pm with a social to follow.
What to expect
- Open Conversation
- Lightly guided reflection activities
This event is in partnership with UTSC Equity & Diversity Office, UTM Equity and Diversity Office, UTM Indigenous Center, UTM Centre for Student Engagement and the UTM International Education Centre.
Facilitator
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Rebeckah Price
Wellness Advocate and Yoga Teacher
Rebeckah Price is a wellness advocate and yoga instructor (RYT 200), that draws on her wealth of knowledge of working in underserved, marginalized, Racialized, and immigrant communities in Canada, the United States and the Caribbean. In 2015, Rebeckah founded irise yoga + wellness- as a way to connect, promote, bring awareness to and foster the inclusion of people of colour and other historically marginalized groups in yoga and wellness spaces.
In 2019, she co-founded the Well Collective to continue to expand her work on addressing the lack of representation of BIPOC wellness practitioners in wellness spaces.
Rebeckah's work is rooted in an intersectional understanding of power and harnessing the tools and resources to facilitate community change. With over 20 years in the not-for-profit sector as a Community Development and Engagement Specialist, Rebeckah has worked on and developed strategies and policies related to diversity & inclusion, equity, conflict resolution, settlement and integration and creating safe, cohesive communities.
Rebeckah uses her lived experience as a Woman of Colour and her unique expertise in community development and engagement to bridge and address the gap of diversity in the wellness industry through consulting, training and workshops, etc. In 2020, Rebeckah became a Nike trainer, the first Black Woman in Canada to represent the brand under the trainer title. Through her work Nike, she continues to bring yoga and mindfulness to marginalized and underrepresented communities in wellness.
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