We believe the practice of Cultivating Intersectional Leadership is key to building our ability to imagine, create, and foster personal and professional relationships that endeavor to communicate and engage in ways that create less harm for ourselves and others. 

We believe the process of Cultivating Intersectional Leadership intentionally transmutes white supremacy and patriarchy and their influence on how we move in the world.

We believe the path of Cultivating Intersectional Leadership is a transformative journey that supports individuals and organizations in making the deeply systemic, strategic, intuitive, innovative, and necessary shifts away from old ways of being that no longer serve us, our organizations. or our communities.


This module is a powerful and transformative online course! It includes:

  • dialogues & lectures (over 20 hours of video)
  • assignments (a 60-page workbook)
  • and a library of over 200 resources

This course is for people who want to co-imagine, co-create, and co-foster a healthy anti-oppressive culture. It is for those who seek support in growing their humanity and skill. Culture change takes time and practice. Module 1 is designed to help participants explore and digest critical information using reflective assignments and tools that support meaningful individual transformation and learning. 

You are invited to engage in a deeply transformative process where you will practice using ideas, concepts, and tools that allow you to accurately perceive and interrupt white supremacy and patriarchy. You will come to understand how intricately these forces influence, dominate and control how we see the world, our role in it, and how we engage in relationships with ourselves and others.


Success requires that you intentionally and authentically engage. You will learn using submodules that include:

  • Uprooting Perceptions: Impact of Power and Privilege
  • Peeling Back the Tendrils: Reimagining My Reality
  • Fostering Fertile Ground: Intersectional Inquiry
  • Planting Seeds: What Is My End Game?


Module 1 Takeaways:

Cultivating Intersectional Leadership expands your capacity to work in community with others by understanding and developing key Learning Objectives on the path of becoming an effective Intersectional thinker/leader. Upon completing the course, you will leave with:

  • An introspective and potentially transformative final project, 
  • An Action Plan that builds on your strengths and opportunities, 
  • A vision of your aspirations, concrete results, and strategies, with a support plan and pathway for engaging in the work

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


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Who Are Your Facilitators?


I specialize in the needs of women, people of color, and queer leaders dedicated to social justice-induced systemic change and infiltration in their organizational culture, mission, vision, goals, product, and/or service. I have been a Director of Company Culture Transformation for a racial equity tech industry nonprofit, a Chief Development Business Officer, a Chief Operations Officer, a senior curriculum writer and training designer, and lead facilitator. Today I use these work experiences as well as important life experiences to Cultivate Intersectional Leadership in myself, coaching and thought partnerships for organizations and individuals, and supporting space for team/department and whole organization conversations at organizations interested in real racial equity and inclusion.


I focus on disrupting White Supremacy 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 1: Intro
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  CIL Module 1A: Perception Becomes Reality: Power of Social Constructs
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  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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  CIL Module 1D: Fostering Fertile Ground
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  CIL Module 1E: Planting Seeds: What’s My End Game?
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