Podcast: Unlearning Colonialism

How can you decolonize the way you live, work and serve your team & community?

The impacts of colonialism can be found throughout our personal, organizational and societal beliefs and behaviors. Decolonizing our ways of being in relationship with each other – at home, at work and beyond – is a liberatory practice.

To start American Indian Heritage month, we held this free virtual event to learn from the panelists, connect with an anti-oppression community of leaders, and ask our questions. Topics included:

The ongoing impacts of colonization, particularly in North America and the Caribbean

How colonial mindsets and structures are reinforcing extractive processes today, leading to disconnection from the self & others

Questions to ask yourself to begin unlearning the ways you unknowingly reinforce colonialism

Ways to begin decolonizing your leadership and team’s ways of working

How the panelists are decolonizing DEI, creating a worker-first job search app, and organizing in Jamaica & across the Caribbean to remove the British monarch as head of state

The part you can uniquely play in the collective work of decolonizing our homes, workplaces and world

🎙️ Featuring our incredible panel:

Adria McMichael (she/her), the Founder and CEO of Job Swiper, grew up in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with her Weimaraner Kingsley. She is creating a tech startup Job Swiper that believes that every seat at the board table can, and should, be filled with traditionally targeted people who are not traditionally seen in the technology ecosystem.

Kohenet YA (she/her) is a Hebrew Priestess of Liberation, bringing 25+ years of experience supporting people in reclaiming their heart, magick & sovereignty. As a self-described Jewyorican (NY Jewish + Puerto Rican) poet, she weaves words & Jewish liturgy with multi-dimensional frequencies that support our embodied complexities and erotic necessities. From the boardrooms to the prisons, schoolrooms to businesses she helps folks unpack the distortions and dispel dissonance, so that they can reclaim their fullest self.

Professor Rosalea Hamilton (she/her) is CEO of the LASCO Chin Foundation. Recently she has been recognized for her work as Coordinator within the Advocates Network Jamaica, in the collective push across the Caribbean to republicanize and remove the British monarch as head of state.

And meet your host… 🎙️ Lindsey T. H. Jackson! (she/her)

Lindsey is a creative force in motion. Every year, organizations and outlets like MoPOP, the Washington State GSBA and King5 News call on her to guide thousands of individuals through their shared journeys of Unlearning our culturally patterned biases and traumas. And now, we’re fortunate enough to be one of them!

Register for the next Unlearning (free each first Wednesday of the month): www.lthjglobal.com/unlearning/