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Training Track Cultural Competency - Closing Remarks
This free event is sponsored by the Seattle/King County Gang Prevention & Outreach Work Group.
If you have already registered for Workshop 3D: Girl Justics: Powerful Practices for Supporting Girlvolution, you do not need to register for this event. Participants registered for Workshop 3D will automatically be registered.
Description: This motivational and powerful speaker will anchor the cultural competency training series. Ms. Jeffery has expertise and lifelong experiences to bring these trainings to life and make them real.
About the Presenter:
Ms. Minty L. Jeffrey started her career in higher education as the Assistant to the Director of Minority Student Affairs at Seattle University. There, she served as an advisor and mentor to several of the ethnic student clubs. She left Seattle University to accept a position as Public Relations Coordinator for The Seattle Times where she sat on the newspaper's Diversity Council. A published poet and playwright, Ms. Jeffrey, who is an enrolled member of the Santee Indian Nation of South Carolina, mixed with Muskogee-Creek/Choctaw/Anglo-American and African-American, gained recognition as a motivational keynote speaker and private consultant specializing in multi-ethnic Indigenous heritage, transracial adoption, urban native awareness, Greek Lettered Organizational affairs, multiracialism, multiculturalism and cultural nuance. In the summer of 2007, Ms. Jeffrey was appointed to the position of Third Chief for the Santee Indian Nation of South Carolina and is serving her tribal government in that capacity. Her guest lecturing, trainings and workshops have brought her to major universities and colleges across the country, several community colleges, high schools and elementary schools, governmental and state agencies and departments, community and non-profit organizations, corporations, museums and local theaters. Ms. Jeffrey serves on the University of Washington's Native American Advisory Board. Ms. Jeffrey is also an advisory board member of Hip Hop Loves Foundation. She is a standing member of the CASE District VIII Committee for Opportunity and Equity and is also a member of AIWSL (American Indian Women's Service League) in Seattle, WA. Ms. Jeffrey is a proud member of Gamma Alpha Omega Sorority, Inc., a multicultural Latina-founded service-based sorority. Professionally, Ms. Jeffrey is the former Director of Community Relations for ColorsNW, Inc. In addition, she is an original co-founder and co-owner of ColorsNW Inc. in Seattle, WA. ColorsNW Inc. strives to serve the communities of color in the Pacific Northwest through multi-inclusion via multiple vehicles.
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Location2100 Building - Room A and B
2100 24th Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98144
United States
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