More Than Skills to Pay the Bills

The time has come to stop expecting college to prepare us for a job.
We must find the will to accept our roles as cultural creators, as new professionals, capable of understanding how individuals and society co-create one another. In this new multi-media lecture, using spoken word performance and audience interaction, Kimberly Dark helps audiences understand what Parker Palmer calls, "the new professional," engaged in both mind and emotion to confront problems creatively. Audience members will leave with an understanding of unconscious bias, and how to recognize and begin to change it in themselves and others so that we disturb the cycle of oppression at its root. Audience members will also grasp the importance of complexity rather than simple solutions; they'll understand stigma, hierarchy and privilege in applicable ways. Dark leaves participants with five steps toward meaningful involvement and the positive futures that are possible when we find the will to change.
We must find the will to accept our roles as cultural creators, as new professionals, capable of understanding how individuals and society co-create one another. In this new multi-media lecture, using spoken word performance and audience interaction, Kimberly Dark helps audiences understand what Parker Palmer calls, "the new professional," engaged in both mind and emotion to confront problems creatively. Audience members will leave with an understanding of unconscious bias, and how to recognize and begin to change it in themselves and others so that we disturb the cycle of oppression at its root. Audience members will also grasp the importance of complexity rather than simple solutions; they'll understand stigma, hierarchy and privilege in applicable ways. Dark leaves participants with five steps toward meaningful involvement and the positive futures that are possible when we find the will to change.