Interested in developing your equity-minded leadership skills but don’t know where to start? Not sure you consider yourself a leader? Join the CASCaDE team for a conversation on how higher education practitioners can lead at all levels, and what tools they need to make effective change. Hear from some of the expert practitioners who collaborated with NCID to create the Change Agent Empowerment Toolkit and learn about how they understand leadership, who can make change on campus, and what tools and resources they would use to solve specific problems.

CASCaDE (Change Agents Shaping Campus Diversity and Equity) is an initiative from the National Center for Institutional Diversity, committed to improving outcomes for students of color, first-generation, and low-income students. The Change Agent Empowerment Toolkit is a free resource that provides learning, reflection, and action-planning tools, and activities for practitioners who want to gain leadership skills and confidence to make change in higher education.


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Dr. Leslie D. Gonzales, Professor of Higher Education, Department Head of Educational Policy Studies & Practice (EPSP), and Director of Center for the Study of Higher Education in the College of Education at the University of Arizona

Dr. Eugene (Gene) T. Parker, III, Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Kansas

Amber N. Williams, M.A., MSW, NCID Research Associate, School of Education Doctoral Candidate, and School of Social Work Lecturer at the University of Michigan

Moderator: Dr. Sheridan Wigginton, Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at California Lutheran University