Announcements

SAA Education has five new webinars coming this fall. Registration is limited, so be sure to sign up now!

• Strengthening DEIA Goals through Collaboration. Join instructors Azalea Camacho and Amalia Castañeda to develop and strengthen partnerships centered on DEIA principals. Learn how to prioritize these principals in your outreach initiatives to create and sustain authentic partnerships. This webinar takes places September 6 at 3:00 p.m. CT.
• Advocacy and Activism (for Lone Arrangers): How to ensure your position and work is properly respected and funded. In this session, instructor John Chrastka helps students form a clear idea of how to make their interactions with admin, stakeholders, and colleagues more intentional, as well as better secure funding. This webinar takes place October 11 at 3:00 p.m. CT.
• Advocacy and Activism (for Institutions): How to build powerful relationships for your organization . Learn how to build powerful relationships for your organization. Instructor John Chrastka takes students through strategies and tactics used by some of the best community organizers to create change and build power. This webinar takes place October 18 at 3:00 p.m. CT.
• Navigating Barriers to Ethical Labor Practices. In this webinar, instructors Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, Chris Tanguay, and Sheridan Sayles explore concerns around emotional labor, precarity, and inequitable workload in the archives, and tackle ways to identify systemic problems, implement more inclusive hiring practices, recognize exploitative and ableist job practices, and more. This webinar takes place October 30 at 2:00 p.m. CT.
• Blindsided at Work: One Strike and You Are Out. Instructor Elaina Norlin explores a topic we rarely discuss in the workplace—how written and unwritten policies are weaponized to marginalize, penalize, and push people out the door. This webinar discusses strategies to communicate clear expectations but lead with compassion, empathy, and transparency. It takes place November 14 at 3:00 p.m. CT.

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