| This workshop will explore anti-oppression concepts such as systemic oppression and allyship. The presenter will provide strategies and tools for human service professionals to utilize in their daily practice, including:
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- cultural responsiveness
- implicit bias
- microaggressions
- receiving feedback
- non-violent communication techniques.
The goal of this half-day training is to equip attendees with core language and theory that can be used to bolster diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in human services.
Upon completion of this half-day event, participants will:
- Have gained a broad understanding of how oppression operates within our society and be able to provide instances of such behaviors;
- Be able to articulate the 4 I’s Anti-Oppression Model and offer examples drawn from this model;
- Understand and demonstrate a positive expression of allyship and inclusive communication strategies; and
- Connect anti-oppression theory to practice at the interpersonal level.
Eligible for three CEUs
Presenter: Regan Byrd
Regan is an award-winning community activist and non-profit professional with over 12 years of experience in grassroots and social justice non-profit organizations, formerly working for The Arc of Jefferson County, 9to5 Colorado: National Association of Working Women, Hunger Free Colorado, and the Bell Policy Center. Regan Byrd is currently the office manager with the Colorado Nonprofit Development Center, a social enterprise and charitable project incubator seeking to maximizes the impact of nonprofits through fiscal sponsorship to enable all Colorado communities to thrive. She has served as the co-chair of the board for 9to5 Colorado for 9 years, treasurer of the board for Colorado People’s Alliance for 2.5 years, and has been a board member Womxn’s March Denver since September 2018, also acting as the 2019 march morning MC. Regan is also a former commissioner on the Aurora Humans Rights Commission, and former board member for the youth mentorship non-profit “YESS Institute”. She is a graduate of the Transit Alliance’s Citizen Academy and Emerge Colorado, a training program for women running for office. She is a recent graduate of the Denver Metro Chamber’s “Impact Denver” leadership class of Spring 2018. She is a current candidate for office for RTD: District H in 2020.
Regan is also a recognized anti-oppression activist, speaker, and trainer. She has trained dozens of organizations on anti-oppression and allyship, including the Colorado Mid-Wives Association, the Sierra Club, the Colorado Democratic Party, YWCA of Boulder County, and Denver Public Schools. Regan has served as the morning keynote speaker for the DU Women’s Conference in 2017, the DU Allyship Summit in 2018, and was a trainer at the 2018 White Privilege Symposium in Denver. She participated in various expert panels on topics ranging from critical race theory, to the history of police, to housing justice.
Regan has a deep commitment to social justice, institutional systems change, and collective liberation. She believes this is best done through self-reflexivity, strong allyship, knowledge cultivation, intentional inclusivity, coalition building, and dismantling systems of oppression.
Regan is an alumni of the University of Denver’s undergraduate program, with dual B.A. degrees in Public Policy and Sociology, and minors in Gender and Women’s Studies, and English. Regan has been named a “Woman to Watch” by the Denver League of Women Voters, is the winner of the 2015 Lilly Ledbetter award from 9to5 Colorado, and was named 2019’s “Woman of the Year” by the Business and Professional Women of Denver.
