Part 2 of this module is a powerful and transformative deepening of your Cultivating Intersectional Leadership journey! It includes:

  • dialogues & lectures (approx. 10 hours of video)
  •  workbook with reflective assignments

Part 2 of 3 offers:

MODULE 1b: INDIVIDUAL Uprooting Perceptions: Impact of Power and Privilege
Defining Intersectionality and Interdependence
Unpacking how power and privilege shape & impact experiences and expectations
Racial Trauma/ White Sensitivity (triggers, resistance, fragility)
Culture of failure/making it a gift (a tool to support vulnerability)
Whiteness/Patriarchy as dominant cultures
How to develop and live with vulnerability and Introspection
What is the process of getting to full honesty about self
End of session reflection
MODULE 1c: INDIVIDUAL Peeling Back the Tendrils: Reimagining My Reality
Intent vs. Impact
Letting Go of Judgment as a Tool
Confronting Limiting Beliefs
Centering Race
End of Session Reflection


Here are your facilitators, Diedra and Maureen, talking about the course!


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Who Are Your Facilitators?


Diedra Barber

storyteller, bridge-builder, and generative creator



Transmuting for me entails resisting a continuous flow of experiences directed at my mind, body, heart, and soul from the violent, humanity-vacant mechanisms of patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism. 


My path has been to remember and deepen my connection to my divine spark- my humanity and therefore my ability to hold compassion, grace, and kindness from a place of fierce, unapologetic boundaries and protections. I do not desire to become what the construct has delineated and that which I have worked a lifetime resisting. Transmuting has assisted me in this resistance and expansion.


I am here to engage, experience, and evolve as a human in a reality designed to disregard and devour our shared humanity and sparks.


I hope that the transmuting offerings and information you find help you imagine, create, and foster a journey that supports you in remembering your divine spark and the power that is YOU, especially in these times of chaos and collapse.

I focus on Transmuting white supremacy and patriarchy in my own practice, in my day-to-day engagement with the community, and in my work as a consultant for organizational development and systemic transformation. I have been a high school teacher and principal in Oakland, CA., a Chief Operating Officer of a national racial equity organization, and a lead facilitator and coach for equity with executive teams, boards, and staff at a variety of social impact organizations. As a community member, I’ve been a Police Commissioner and organizer with local groups dedicated to ending police violence against marginalized communities, specifically Black people who are exponentially targeted by state terror. After more than 20 years of work in education and supporting social impact organizations focused on racial justice and intersectional leadership, I feel even more strongly that we must engage tirelessly in our governmental and educational systems with an emphasis on interrupting our personal and systemic perpetuation of historical disparities. Using the tools of Cultivating Intersectional Leadership is my commitment to a lifetime of brainwashing to undo.

Course Curriculum

  CIL Module 1B: Uprooting Perceptions: Impact of Power and Privilege
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  CIL Module 1C: Peeling Back The Tendrils: Reimagining My Reality
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