As part of its Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) program, CANSSI regularly organizes EDI workshops and training sessions for the statistical sciences community, often in partnership with Academic Impressions, a leading provider of leadership, personal development, and skills-based training opportunities to faculty and staff in higher education.
We invite you to join us for this 1.5-hour online workshop led by Sandra Miles, Head of Practice for Team Development at Academic Impressions.
This session can be used to fulfill the CANSSI EDI requirement for CANSSI-supported researchers.
Highly inclusive leaders strive to respect and value people from diverse backgrounds based on categories like gender, race, class, sexual orientation, religion, ability, etc. This session will focus on intersectionality—on the ways that individuals can face multiple forms of oppression due to their membership in more than one non-dominant social identity. We will explore how leaders can cultivate inclusion by addressing the complex, cumulative effects of intersectionality.
This interactive presentation empowers participants to explore, confront, and recalibrate any personal desire or understandings that may cause us to put our colleagues in boxes based on one identity, rather than seeing them as the sum total of all of their identities.
After participating, you will leave with tools to help continuously uncover and deepen your understanding of personal biases and acquire skills to compassionately help others recognize their own biases.
Faculty who are interested in learning about intersectionality within a higher education setting. This course is most beneficial to anyone unfamiliar with intersectionality or interested in exploring effective intervention techniques to use with colleagues, administrative leaders, and students.
Sandra Miles, PhD
Head of Practice for Team Development, Academic Impressions
Sandra has spent most of the last two decades serving as a leader and administrator in higher education. Specifically, she has had extensive experience in managing crisis, strategic planning, developing leadership programs, working with persons with disabilities, mediating disputes, and serving as a Dean of Students, Chief Student Affairs Officer, Chief Diversity Officer, and Deputy Title IX Coordinator. In 2022, Sandra joined Academic Impressions full-time as the Head of Practice for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, due to her experience with the organization as a subject-matter expert who facilitated trainings and workshops in higher-ed, as well as to her passion for making DEI concepts resonate for individuals from all walks of life. In 2024, she transitioned to specialize in the team development space supporting the growth of trust and effectiveness of high-performing teams among leaders in higher education.
Sandra completed her doctoral work at Florida State University in 2012, earning a PhD in Higher Education Administration. She also completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Central Florida. In addition to her career and educational achievements, Sandra is on the editorial board for EVOLVE Magazine – First Coast Edition; is a former Chair of the NASPA Center for Women Board; is a former National Director of the Black Female Development Circle, Inc.; and is the current President of the Palm Coast-Flagler County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.