BOLD IDEAS!: "A Black Woman's Experience: Navigating professional spaces, building resilience, and being a strong leader" - August 21, 2020

BOLD IDEAS!: "A Black Woman's Experience: Navigating professional spaces, building resilience, and being a strong leader" - August 21, 2020

CALUMET AND STONG COLLEGES invite you to attend BOLD IDEAS!:

Bold Ideas serves as a platform for citizens, activists and leaders to share their personal, career and life experiences and challenges with the community, and how they negotiated their life paths around these challenges. Non-conformists are welcome.

We believe in the power of ideas, actions and experiences. We believe that humans are catalysts for a better world. We believe each experience is unique and can elevate the consciousness of others.

Bold Ideas is where the ordinary becomes extraordinary. It is where extraordinary people share extraordinary ideas that challenge our perspectives of what is possible, what is not possible and what is certain.

Please join us at our upcoming Bold Ideas session:

Session Title: "A Black Woman's Experience: Navigating professional spaces, building resilience, and being a strong leader"
Date: Fri August 21, 2020
Time: 4:00-5:00 pm
Presenter: Kamilah Clayton – Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW, CBT
Zoom Meeting ID: 957 8338 9779
Zoom Meeting Password: 263401

Presenter's Bio: Kamilah Clayton, MSW, RSW, CBT, is a Registered Social Worker, with over 10 years experience working with children, youth, and families. Kamilah holds a Bachelor of Psychology, a Bachelors and Masters in Social Work, and is certified in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. Kamilah is an African Centred Rites of Passage Initiate and a former member of Yensomu African Rites of Passage. Kamilah has a private practice in Whitby, ON, where she specializes in issues of Anxiety, Depression, Stress and Racial identity. Kamilah is committed to providing quality mental health counselling and programming to members of the African Canadian Community.

Session Summary: As a child, I was told that I had to work "twice as hard, to be viewed as just as good". This one phrase would shape the way I showed up in all spaces throughout my life, and in particular, the way I exist in the workplace. For Black women, professional spaces can be sites of great satisfaction for the years of hard work you've put into building your career, or they can be sites of trauma and ongoing assaults to who you are. In this session, I will discuss some of my strategies for navigating the workplace as a Black woman, and why now, more than ever, it is imperative to invest in and support Black women.


Experience a moment of learning and sharing ideas.

Registration is free. Advanced registration is mandatory.