Facing Race: A National Conference in St. Louis, MO — November 20-22, 2024

Tasia Smith

Training Services Manager | The Management Center
Tasia discovered a passion for advocacy work through organizing with President Obama’s re-election campaign in Philadelphia. After working several campaigns up and down the East Coast, Tasia joined the Management Center, where she manages booking and admin support for hundreds of trainings with progressive and social justice organizations (and consults on TMC’s racial equity work on the side). She is committed to forging a more effective and inclusive social justice movement. Based in DC, Tasia spends her free time organizing/engaging in holistic turnup with fellow BYP100 DC Chapter members.

Presentations from Facing Race 2016

Management with Anti-Oppression Values: Practical Tools for Project and People Management with a Racial Equity Lens

As individuals and organizations, we are committed to creating more racial equity, inclusion, and justice — but what do those values look like in practice within our organizations? Learn foundational project and people management practices that will help you and your team accomplish the most important advocacy and organizing work even more effectively, and without perpetuating the systems of oppression we’re all fighting against. We’ll bring an explicitly anti-oppression lens to key management practices: getting 100% aligned on desired outcomes (and making sure to vet those outcomes), guiding people (without micromanaging), and holding your team accountable to getting awesome results. We'll focus on immediately implementable tools and skills, with time built in for practice and workshopping of real-life examples.

Speakers: Bex Ahuja, Tasia Smith