SHIFT has developed multiple training tracks to support this cohort's JEDI (justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion) foundational learning.
Series Schedule
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 | 10AM - 12PM
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 | 10AM - 12PM
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 | 10AM - 12PM
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 | 10AM - 12PM
About the series
This is an affinity space designed to support BIPOC professionals. This series builds self-advocacy skills for BIPOC staff to inspire a culture of care and empowerment for individuals. This series will address the following: microaggressions, workplace culture, and building community care.
Who is it for
BIPOC working professionals within the LA County Department of Arts and Culture Grantee Cohort who are seeking support in advocacy and empowerment within their organizations.
About Your Trainers
Natalie Bui is a first-generation, Vietnamese American and comes with a background in policy and organizing. She's previously worked on voter education at Planned Parenthood, immigrant rights at the ACLU of San Diego, and policy advocacy at Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles.
With her on the ground experience working directly with nonprofits & foundations - Natalie connects the necessity to understand systems, structures, and histories as they relate to our unique identities and how they shape the act of solidarity and inclusion for our movements today.
In addition, she is a social justice movement illustrator and cares about uplifting and centering the causes and visions of communities of color that can encompass their community care and joy. Her art is often used to engage and educate the public around advocacy campaigns & policy advocacy work and has worked with the likes of Planned Parenthood, 18MillionRising, Advancing Justice Los Angeles/ ALC/ Atlanta, The National Women's Law Center, MomsRising, the DNC, Google, and more.
With a B.A. in political science - Natalie has had a non-linear career path and believes in the power of the intersection of art & politics: especially in how art can help envision our future movements and accompany politics in bringing the nuance that is necessary to building them.
Natalie has been featured in Forbes, USA Today, and Spectrum 1 news, and has exhibited galleries for Asian Arts Initiative, LA Arts County, with artist residencies for grassroots nonprofits such as Power California Now & Southeast Asian Resource Action Center
Veline Mojarro (she/her/ella) is an educator, facilitator, and advocate for reproductive justice, hailing from Los Angeles, California, the unceded land of the Gabrielino Tongva people. Raised with the spirit of the Chicano Movement, her foundation is rooted in the transformative power of art for social change, community organizing, and anti-racist principles.
As a co-founder of SHIFT: Sexual Harassment Prevention, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion consulting and training group, she has spearheaded initiatives that redefine workplace culture and foster care and belonging. Her past role as the Director of Equity, Safety, and Inclusion for every one, a Goldenvoice project dedicated to eradicating harassment at Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals, was rooted in abolitionist praxis. It engaged at the intersection of prevention, education, and mental health services to create safer spaces for all.
Before her formal engagement in diversity, equity, and inclusion work, Veline shared her expertise as a Lecturer in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. There, she also served as the Director of Community Programs for the UCLA Art and Global Health Center, leading project AMP! A reproductive justice theater art program for LAUSD high school students and UCLA undergraduates. Additionally, she piloted the first-ever iteration of the AMP! program in Mexico City, Mexico. As the Director of Community Programs, she performed and then eventually directed the new UCLA Student Orientation for all 8,000 incoming undergraduate students where she directed a cast of 60+ UCLA students and Alumni in building a show addressing social issues through their own stories and art mediums.
Art and healing practices have been Veline’s vessel of embodiment of social justice. Trained in theater, dance, and yoga, Veline has performed, trained, and taught both in the states and internationally. She spent a profound time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil training in the Theater of Oppressed with the Centro de Teatro do Oprimido, where Paulo Freire’s theories were turned into liberatory theater. In the States, she has trained with the likes of Contra Tiempo Dance Company, Casa 0101, People’s Yoga of East LA, and Urban Bush Women Dance Company.
About SHIFT
SHIFT is a woman of color-owned, racial & gender equity consulting group. It was established in 2017 in the height of the #metoo movement. Its founders were deeply craving a space for their communities to engage in honest dialogue and community accountability. And as Women of Color, survivors, and educators themselves, it was imperative to center and elevate the work of people in the BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and disabled communities. SHIFT has supported organizations in building sustainable DEI practices by providing workshops and consultations for all types of organizations. Their goal is to create spaces centered on infinite possibilities, care, studentship, compassionate accountability, and true relationship and community building.
To learn more about their team, please go to their website www.shiftingculture.co, or keep up with SHIFT @shiftconsultingco on IG.