Free Webinar: Examining Bias: The Importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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Thursday, August 22nd

1:00 p.m. ET - 2:30 p.m. ET

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Examining Bias: The Importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This webinar is designed to increase awareness about implicit bias by examining our own behaviors and motivations. We will discuss what implicit bias is, why it matters, the consequences of implicit bias, how it can negatively impact those that you serve and what we can do to disrupt and reduce it. In addition, we will discuss and examine Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Recommended for anyone willing to examine their own connectedness to bias and how it impacts them personally, professionally and volunteering. This webinar is especially necessary for those working and living alongside diverse populations who desire to understand their bias and move forward the work related to more cultural understanding.

Presented By:

Kimberly Ewing

Kimberly D. Ewing joined the National Empowerment Center as the new Coordinator/Consultant of Emotional CPR in October 2021. As a person with lived experience and one who crosses many paths of intersectionality, Kim is passionate about mental wellness, racial healing, social justice, racial equality, human rights, bullying prevention, empowering allies and educating humans of all ages. Kim is an international eCPR Trainer, Implicit Bias Trainer, Anti-Racist Trainer, Diversity Trainer, a Certified Olweus Bullying Prevention Trainer, and a Cost of Poverty Experience (COPE) Facilitator. Her favorite hashtag is #ImStillHealing and she believes that we all are doing some version of it. She believes in speaking truth coupled with compassion and that eCPR is the very foundation of being human. One of her only regrets is that she wished she knew eCPR as a young person because it would have made a huge difference with those she encountered along the way.

Kim holds a BS in Communications from the University of Indianapolis and a MS in Higher Education from Indiana State University.

Oryx Cohen

Oryx Cohen, MPA, is the CEO of the National Empowerment Center. He is also the president of the board of the Kiva Centers and of We R H.O.P.E., and a master Emotional CPR trainer. Oryx co-produced and is a subject in the award-winning social action documentary Healing Voices, released in April 2016. He resides in Massachusetts with his wife and children, and coaches basketball year-round.

Shira Collings

Shira Collings, MS, is the grant coordinator of the National Empowerment Center. As a person with lived experience of mental health challenges, trauma, and recovery, Shira is passionate about advocating for peers to have a voice in mental health policy and services. They began their work with NEC as a consultant in 2017, later assuming the role of NEC’s youth coordinator, and have recently transitioned into the role of grant coordinator. They have played a key role in the development and implementation of Youth Emotional CPR, as well as NEC’s Compassionate Approaches to Crisis and Youth Leadership webinar series. In addition to their work for NEC, Shira is a psychotherapist specializing primarily in eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image, in particular among LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent individuals. Shira lives in Philadelphia with their husband, two adopted cats, and foster kitties.

This flyer was developed [in part] under grant number SM082648 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The views, policies, and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of SAMHSA or HHS.