March 26, 2024
This year's Global Day of Inclusion features an array of speakers and highlights an emphasis on this year's theme "Self-Care is Community Care."
Sessions will be offered in person, hybrid and virtually. All in-person event locations are wheelchair accessible. To request additional accommodations, please email [email protected].
Schedule & Speaker Information
Keynote Session 10-11:30 a.m.
Welcome & Introduction
Juana L. Parillon, Ph.D., Assistant Vice President of Institutional Equity and Diversity and Chief of Staff
Q&A Moderator
Sylvia Carey-Butler, Ph.D., Vice President for Institutional Equity and Diversity
Keynote Presentation 
Dr. Sara Coodin, Director of Academic Affairs, American Jewish Committee
Before joining AJC, Dr. Sara Coodin worked as an Associate Professor of Classics and Letters at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Coodin was trained as a Shakespeare scholar and obtained her Ph.D. in English Literature from McGill University in Montréal, Québec, the city where she grew up. She has written and published extensively on premodern English ideas about Jews, including emerging ideas about Jews and race that continue to shape present-day perceptions of Jewish identity and belonging. As AJC’s new (and first) Director of Academic Affairs, Dr. Coodin oversees strategic engagement with university administrators and faculty across the United States. Through her advocacy work, she aims to support more meaningful dialogues and scholarship about Jewish identity, history, and culture in academic spaces nationwide.
Dr. Coodin's keynote entitled "Drawing Back the Curtain on Jewish Communal Work: Democracy as a Strategy for Jewish-American Wellbeing"
Location: Salomon 101, De Ciccio Auditorium
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Session I Workshops noon to 1:15 p.m.
Corey Martin Fitzgerald, M.Ed., CAGS, LMHC, Psychotherapist/Outreach Coordinator, Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)
HYBRID SESSION
Title: Building Sustainable Self-Care Practices
Description: Maintaining healthy self-care practices can prove difficult in the face of life's many obligations and obstacles. Though, centering self-care may be considered too time consuming, a little goes a long way! In this session, attendees will be guided through a framework for which to build their own self-care practices and be encouraged to consider new ways to center gradual lifestyle changes.
Location: Friedman Hall, room 102
Jahmad Canley, President & CEO, Potential Unleashed
IN-PERSON SESSION
Title: "If it is to be..." - Tools to CONTINUE facilitating cultures of Belonging
Description: This interactive workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to: gain new insights into Change & Transition, discover the H.A.B.E. framework and practice self care tools to help sustain the work of facilitating Belonging
Location: Friedman Hall, room 101
Patti Holland, MS, CRC, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Assistant Director for Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Teaching and Workplace Professional Training
VIRTUAL SESSION
Title: Mindfulness Unpacked: Finding Peace and the Power of Presence in a Frantic World
Description: Life can be frantic, busy and full of challenges. When it gets like this, one of the first things we often let go of is tending to, and taking care of ourselves. Unfortunately, when this happens, we can then lose our ability to care for others and our communities. There is a deep and long history of evidence to suggest that Mindfulness can support us with combating the frantic pace of life and the stressors that come with it. In this session, you will learn more about what mindfulness is and how it may help with building resilience, reducing stress, and learning to live life with joy.
Location: Friedman Hall, room 108
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Session II Workshops 1:30-2:45p.m.
Corey Martin Fitzgerald, M.Ed., CAGS, LMHC, Psychotherapist/Outreach Coordinator, Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)
HYBRID SESSION
Title: Building Sustainable Self-Care Practices
Description: Maintaining healthy self-care practices can prove difficult in the face of life's many obligations and obstacles. Though, centering self-care may be considered too time consuming, a little goes a long way! In this session, attendees will be guided through a framework for which to build their own self-care practices and be encouraged to consider new ways to center gradual lifestyle changes.
Location: Friedman Hall, room 102
Jahmad Canley, President & CEO, Potential Unleashed
IN-PERSON SESSION
Title: "If it is to be..." - Tools to CONTINUE facilitating cultures of Belonging
Description: This interactive workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to: gain new insights into Change & Transition, discover the H.A.B.E. framework and practice self care tools to help sustain the work of facilitating Belonging
Location: Friedman Hall, room 101
Patti Holland, MS, CRC, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Assistant Director for Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Teaching and Workplace Professional Training
IN-PERSON SESSION
Title: Mindfulness Unpacked: Finding Peace and the Power of Presence in a Frantic World
Description: Life can be frantic, busy and full of challenges. When it gets like this, one of the first things we often let go of is tending to, and taking care of ourselves. Unfortunately, when this happens, we can then lose our ability to care for others and our communities. There is a deep and long history of evidence to suggest that Mindfulness can support us with combating the frantic pace of life and the stressors that come with it. In this session, you will learn more about what mindfulness is and how it may help with building resilience, reducing stress, and learning to live life with joy.
Location: Friedman Hall, room 108