UCSF Diversity & Inclusion Certificate Program (DICP) Graduation 2023

DICP Overview

Launched in the fall of 2016, the Diversity and Inclusion Certificate Program (DICP) is a cohort model education course designed to further equip the UCSF workforce with knowledge and skills to support DEI initiatives and best practices. The Diversity and Inclusion Certificate Program focuses on exploring DEI concepts essential to enhancing an inclusive work environment through lecture, experiential and independent activities. To date, almost 200 people have completed the DICP program and there is a highly engaged alumni community.

Learning Goals

To develop a more capable workforce by enhancing staff competencies and capacity relevant to diversity, equity and inclusion, in order to leverage these toward achieving and sustaining campus-wide excellence.

Specific objectives:

Understanding foundational concepts for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Considerations and tools for creating an inclusive climate at work

Professional development

Contribute to the UCSF community by addressing unmet diversity needs

DICP Leadership

Renee Navarro, MD, PharmD

she/her

Vice Chancellor, Chief Diversity Officer

Office of Diversity & Outreach

Alejandra Rincón, PhD

she/her

Assistant Vice-Chancellor and Chief of Staff

Office of Diversity & Outreach

Klint Jaramillo, MSW, MEd

he/him/él

DICP Lead Facilitator

Director, LGBT Resource Center

Interim Director, Multicultural Resource Center

Melisa Anne B. Bautista, M.Ed

she/her

DICP Co-Manager

Assistant Director, Multicultural Resource Center

Weekly Session Topics & Presenters

1 Foundations of Social Justice & Cultural Humility

Presenter: Director, LGBT Resource Center & Interim Director, Multicultural Resource Center

Klint Jaramillo, MSW, MEd (he/him/él)

2 Unconscious Bias, Power, Privilege & Oppression

Guest presenter: Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Chicago Field Museum

Sara Furr, PhD (she/her)

3 Disability, Accessibility & Inclusion

Guest presenters: Chief Accessibility and Inclusion Officer, Office of Diversity & Outreach

Wendy Tobias, CRC, LPCC (she/her)

Cecile Puretz (she/her)

Assistant Director, Disability Access and Inclusion

4 Racism & Anti-Racism at UCSF

Guest presenter:

Tiffani Chan, MA (she/her)

Manager, Anti-Racism Initiative, Office of Diversity & Outreach

Weekly Session Topics & Presenters

5 LGBTQ Liberation & Justice

Guest presenters:

Andy Cofino (he/him)

Director, LGBTQ Campus Resource Center, UCLA

Em Huang, MEd (they/them)

Director, LGBTQ+ Advancement & Equity, UC Berkeley

Shaun Travers, EdD (he/him)

Campus Diversity Officer & Director, LGBT Resource Center, UC San Diego

6 Classism & The Myth of Meritocracy

Presenter:

Klint Jaramillo, MSW, MEd (he/him/él)

Director, LGBT Resource Center & Interim Director, Multicultural Resource Center

7 Navigating Harassment & Discrimination in the Workplace

Guest presenters:

Denise Caramagno, LMFT (she/her)

Co-Director of the Campus Advocacy, Resources, and Education (CARE) for Sexual Assault and Gender-based Violence

Kendra Hypolite, MSW, ASW (she/her)

CARE Advocate for Racial Justice

Co- Director of the Campus Advocacy, Resources, and Education (CARE) Program

Weekly Session Topics & Presenters

8 Special Session: Institute for Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism Leadership (IDEAL) Academy, sponsored by the Office of Diversity & Outreach

Topic: Analyzing Anti-Blackness, White Racism, and White Supremacy Culture as American Value Systems

Session Objectives

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Describe the historical and social foundations of structural racism and anti-blackness in America

Identify modern-day impact of the historical and social foundations of structural racism and antiblackness on interpersonal communication and behavior Analyze information in the context to current day health, wellness and economic outcomes in current environments

3. Guest Speaker: Dante King, MA

Author | Leader | Speaker | Innovator

www danteking com

Dante King is a native of San Francisco, California. He is an author of the new book The 400-Year Holocaust: White America's Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory. Dante is also a professor of American History, African American History, and Black Studies. His research interests include the intersections of race, racism, and legality throughout preand-post colonial America. Dante currently serves as guest faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine (UCSF), as well as the Mayo Clinic. Dante is a historian, scholar, public motivational speaker, thought-leader, facilitator, and coach.

DICP Participant Highlights

"So great to meet people from all over our UCSF Community. Engaging in these important conversations with people outside our regular "work world" brings so much more to the conversations. We have some amazing people who work at UCSF and I'm excited to celebrate them."

- Emily Lefson (she/her), Campus Life Services, Conference and Event Services

"I have truly learned from this experience how critical it is to be a life-long learner with diversity and inclusion and how important it is to keep enhancing my knowledge to support DEI at UCSF and in my life. The facilitators, speakers and content in this course were extremely effective in helping me grow and become a better leader with diversity and inclusion."

- Sana Sweis, Information Technology

"The DICP pushed me to be more open-hearted and empathetic toward myself and others. The topics covered broadened my awareness and understanding of the ways I can help create change."

- Ruby Warnock, Office of Ethics and Compliance

My DICP experience changed me forever. This program provided knowledge, tools, and vulnerability as well as a DEI community within UCSF whom I met and shared experiences with. Thank you for teaching me and allowing a place to learn, grow and understand the importance of diversity, and inclusion.

- Christina Houston, Health

DICP Participant Highlights

"The DCIP experience was exceptionally informative, welcoming to all, and eye-opening. This education helped to break down walls, dispelled myths, uncovered hard truths and realities, and provided a path forward to continue DEI work, collaboration, and growth."

- Heidi L. Willsher, Womens Health Minimally Invasive Gynecological Surgery & Urogynecology

"The personal value this training gave me is immeasurable. The awareness about different types of diversity, bias's and the safe space to have meaningful dialogues is a lesson I will carry with me in my personal and professional life."

- Rachel Patel, HR- Talent Acquisition

"I learned so much about myself in my journey toward being a more inclusive leader. I learned to be transparent and vulnerable with my feelings and oopsies.

- I've gained a valuable friendship and learning community through the cohort

- I learned so much about class, meritocracy, and the root of all of the issues that plague our society, racism.

- I appreciated the panel discussion during the LGBTQ week, it's great to hear the issues that each UC campus is trying to tackle

- All of the lectures for the topics have been super valuable. Thank you for putting this course together and I hope you all continue this great work! I was honored to be accepted and I thank you so much!"

- Francesca Coelho,

DICP Winter 2023 Cohort!

Alisha Tara Tolani, MD

Brenda Kay Husband, BSBA, MBA

CeeCee (Cecilia) Fairley, MS, LCGC

Christina Houston

Christina Y. Chun, MPH

Elijah M Wallace

Emily Lefson

Francesca Coelho

Graham Hinchcliffe, MS

Heidi L. Willsher, RN

Jamie DeAraujo

Juri Sanchez, MSW

Kay Burke, RN

Marisa Howlette

Olayemi Aderinto, MS, PAS, LATG

Rachel Harris

Rebecca Szatkowski

Ruby Warnock, MPH

Sana Sweis, MS

Stacy Neiman

Uresha Patel

Vanessa Melo Cavalcante, RN

Violeta Maldonado