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!


Choose a Pricing Option

There are many ways you can engage in Cultivating Intersectional Leadership.

You can enroll in the Self Paced course (as a whole or in parts.)



You can add-on monthly group coaching with Diedra and Maureen, no matter where you are in the course!

*All enrollments include lifetime access to course materials






We invite you to enroll in the option that works best for you.

Please note: we offer discounts for any community group or organization that wishes to enroll more than 10 people. Please contact us for more information.

(Self-Paced) Cultivating Intersectional Leadership, Module 1: Individual

This course is the "go at your own pace" option!

Diedra and Maureen

Diedra and Maureen

$895

Part 1: Cultivating Intersectional Leadership, Module 1: Individual

This course is the "go at your own pace" option!

Diedra and Maureen

Diedra and Maureen

$295

Part 2: Cultivating Intersectional Leadership, Module 1: Individual

This course is the "go at your own pace" option!

Diedra and Maureen

Diedra and Maureen

$395

Part 3: Cultivating Intersectional Leadership, Module 1: Individual

This course is the "go at your own pace" option!

Diedra and Maureen

Diedra and Maureen

$295

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.

Maureen Benson,

Educator and Organizational Leader



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 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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