Positioning Yourself on the Spectrum of Identity, Power and Privilege

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Positioning Yourself on the Spectrum of Identity, Power and Privilege

By Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern Calif.

Date and time

Thursday, August 16, 2018 · 1 - 2:30pm PDT

Location

NPH

369 Pine Street # 310 San Francisco, CA 94104

Description

This interactive workshop begins to build the framework of a community engagement practice that is to be enacted and reflected on regularly. We ask practitioners to place themselves on a spectrum that identifies various societal privileges and distributions of power. This session includes a discussion of how practitioners might be perceived as outsiders in communities who have experienced a different social context related to power, privilege, and oppression. The goal is to establish a reference vocabulary for personal introspection while laying the foundation of an ongoing self-reflective practice. Participants are asked to to available for the entirety of workshop.

About the presenter:

Shalini Agrawal is director of the Center for Art and Public Life at California College of the Arts (CCA) and cofounder and principal of MAC Studio, a practice that engages communities through landscape architecture. MAC Studio was selected as one of the few firms to complete the San Francisco Unified School District Green Schoolyard Initiative for middle and high schools. Her expertise ranges from architecture, interior architecture, and landscape architecture to art installations.

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VISION

NPH sees a future where everyone has a place to call home and where low-income communities and communities of color stay and prosper in the Bay Area. We envision a day where everyone has access to an affordable home; improving our health, our children’s educational outcomes, our environment, our transit system, our regional competitiveness and keeping the Bay Area diverse and equitable.

MISSION

The Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH) activates our members to make the Bay Area a place where everyone has an affordable and stable home. We are 750 affordable housing developers, advocates, community leaders and businesses, working to secure resources, promote good policy, educate the public and support affordable homes as the foundation for thriving individuals, families and neighborhoods.

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