November 26, 2020: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Cicely Blain


IRES Seminar Series

Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm (every Thursday)

Via Zoom

This seminar will not be recorded.

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Workshop in Anti-Racism and Implicit Biases

The workshop will be tailored to anti-racism and implicit biases in our personal and professional life.

 

Cicely Blain

CEO, Cicely Blain Consulting

Bio:

Cicely Belle Blain is a Black/mixed, queer femme from London, UK now living on the lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people. Their ancestry is a mix of Gambian (Wolof), Jamaican and English. At the heart of all their work, Cicely Belle harnesses their passion for justice, liberation and meaningful change via transformative education, always with laughter, and fearlessly in the face of systemic oppression.

They are noted for founding Black Lives Matter Vancouver and subsequently being listed as one Vancouver’s 50 most powerful people, BC Business’s 30 under 30 and one of 150 Black women and non-binary people making change across Canada. They are now the CEO of Cicely Blain Consulting, social justice-informed diversity and inclusion consulting company with over 200 clients across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Cicely Belle is an instructor in Executive Leadership at Simon Fraser University and the author of Burning Sugar (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020).