Decolonial Futures in Education
Working with critical hope
to support college faculty, staff, and administrative leaders to disrupt systemic oppression and create a more inclusive learning and working environment.
We work to co-design workshops, training, and leadership support to create a more equitable educational experience
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Training
DeFiE facilitates half day, full day, multi-day, and yearlong academies in decolonizing the academy, how to have conversations about race and racism, creating culturally sustaining pedagogy, design thinking and liberatory design, and strategies for leading systemic change.
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Services
DeFiE can support you in providing strategic consulting, leadership support, project management, conflict resolution, strategic planning, focus groups, and support telling the story of decolonial interventions.
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About us
We are a team educational leaders committed to supporting higher education institutions to create decolonial spaces for students. We believe that educational spaces can provide equitable access to creativity, learning, joy, and social justice.
DeFiE works to
Support College Leaders
DeFiE provides strategic support with educational leaders working for social justice through equity focused leadership coaching, conflict negotiation support, meeting facilitation, project management, and training development and facilitation.
Disrupt Systemic Oppression
DeFiE supports individuals and institutions to build capacity for disrupting systemic oppression through trainings on talking about race, racism, and whiteness in education; design thinking; decolonial vision development and planning; and in supporting telling the story of the efforts to disrupt oppression.
Build Inclusive Environments
DeFiE provides opportunities for faculty, administrators, and staff to build awareness, engage in critical reflection and praxis, and build skills create the learning and workspaces that are inclusive and work towards a decolonial future. We do this through our decolonize the academy training, nonviolent communication training, and through supporting colleges to better understand their community with focus groups, policy and practice audits, and think tanks.
Contact Us
Please reach out to learn more about our training and services. We co-create trainings and services based on your specific needs.
