Part 3 of this module is a powerful and transformative culminating experience on the journey of Cultivating Intersectional Leadership! It includes:

  • dialogues & lectures (over 6 hours of video)
  •  workbook with reflective assignments

Part 3 of 3 offers

MODULE 1d: INDIVIDUAL Fostering Fertile Ground: Intersectional Inquiry

Understanding Intersectional Inquiry

Composting Power

Intersections of multiple identities

Turning the Soil: Revisiting Our Identity MapRecap of Module 1

End of Session Reflection

MODULE 1e: INDIVIDUAL Planting Seeds: What Is My End Game?

Clearing My Resistance

Excavating My Power and Privilege Patterns

Weeding Out My Limiting Beliefs

My Personal Action Plan: Sowing the Seeds

Moving in our Journey from Individual to Interpersonal

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 1D: Fostering Fertile Ground
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  CIL Module 1E: Planting Seeds: What’s My End Game?
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