You CAN Sit with Us: Collaboration for Cool Kids
Join Tiny Concepts + Ashnee Dunning on Tuesday, Sept. 17
"You CAN Sit with Us: Collaboration for Cool Kids," is an engaging and transformative session that explores the power of dynamic and radical collaboration with unconventional stakeholders. Discover how to break away from traditional approaches and create equitable initiatives that resonate with diverse communities. Through interactive activities, real-world case studies, and vibrant discussions, we will demonstrate how inclusive and innovative practices can lead to impactful solutions. Whether you're a seasoned professional or new to the field, this session will provide you with the tools and inspiration to foster meaningful partnerships and drive positive change. Embrace the cool kid mindset and learn how to make a lasting difference by collaborating with a wide array of voices and perspectives.
We hope you will come to mix and mingle, prepared to collaborate!
Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Time: 4-6:30pm
Location: Black Arts Cultural Center, 359 S. Kalamazoo Mall, 49007
About Ashnee
Ashnee V. Dunning is a strategic visionary, servant leader, energy producer, and super learner. She enjoys sunshine, laughing, breathing and thinking. Ashnee serves as CEO of the Power Initiative, a social profit agency that engages in programs, services, projects and relationships that support communities to identify gaps and facilitate solutions to real life experiences. She is also the Executive Director of the Flint Freedom Schools Collaborative, a strategic disruption to educational injustice. Ashnee is the First Vice President of the Flint Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and spends much of her time volunteering on various boards and community projects.
At the foundation of all that Mrs. Dunning does, is a commitment to curating positive culture, cultivating talent, developing systems and mobilizing solutions. She is an “ask forgiveness, not permission”, “make it make sense”, “say it with your chest”, “loyalty, loyalty, loyalty” queen of Wakanda and Northside Flintstone. Ashnee is blessed to spend much of her time practicing Black liberation and fighting systemic oppression alongside a group of genuine and dynamic individuals, and does much of her work with a baby on her hip. Ashnee V. Dunning is the daughter of Michelle R. Young, granddaughter of Stevella Young, and great granddaughter of Mary Ella March. She is her ancestors’ wildest dreams and the manifestation of her village’s prayers. Ashnee is on a journey to reclaim her time by choosing joy and rejecting societal norms that do not suit her legacy, unapologetically.
Join Tiny Concepts + Ashnee Dunning on Tuesday, Sept. 17
"You CAN Sit with Us: Collaboration for Cool Kids," is an engaging and transformative session that explores the power of dynamic and radical collaboration with unconventional stakeholders. Discover how to break away from traditional approaches and create equitable initiatives that resonate with diverse communities. Through interactive activities, real-world case studies, and vibrant discussions, we will demonstrate how inclusive and innovative practices can lead to impactful solutions. Whether you're a seasoned professional or new to the field, this session will provide you with the tools and inspiration to foster meaningful partnerships and drive positive change. Embrace the cool kid mindset and learn how to make a lasting difference by collaborating with a wide array of voices and perspectives.
We hope you will come to mix and mingle, prepared to collaborate!
Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Time: 4-6:30pm
Location: Black Arts Cultural Center, 359 S. Kalamazoo Mall, 49007
About Ashnee
Ashnee V. Dunning is a strategic visionary, servant leader, energy producer, and super learner. She enjoys sunshine, laughing, breathing and thinking. Ashnee serves as CEO of the Power Initiative, a social profit agency that engages in programs, services, projects and relationships that support communities to identify gaps and facilitate solutions to real life experiences. She is also the Executive Director of the Flint Freedom Schools Collaborative, a strategic disruption to educational injustice. Ashnee is the First Vice President of the Flint Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and spends much of her time volunteering on various boards and community projects.
At the foundation of all that Mrs. Dunning does, is a commitment to curating positive culture, cultivating talent, developing systems and mobilizing solutions. She is an “ask forgiveness, not permission”, “make it make sense”, “say it with your chest”, “loyalty, loyalty, loyalty” queen of Wakanda and Northside Flintstone. Ashnee is blessed to spend much of her time practicing Black liberation and fighting systemic oppression alongside a group of genuine and dynamic individuals, and does much of her work with a baby on her hip. Ashnee V. Dunning is the daughter of Michelle R. Young, granddaughter of Stevella Young, and great granddaughter of Mary Ella March. She is her ancestors’ wildest dreams and the manifestation of her village’s prayers. Ashnee is on a journey to reclaim her time by choosing joy and rejecting societal norms that do not suit her legacy, unapologetically.
Join Tiny Concepts + Ashnee Dunning on Tuesday, Sept. 17
"You CAN Sit with Us: Collaboration for Cool Kids," is an engaging and transformative session that explores the power of dynamic and radical collaboration with unconventional stakeholders. Discover how to break away from traditional approaches and create equitable initiatives that resonate with diverse communities. Through interactive activities, real-world case studies, and vibrant discussions, we will demonstrate how inclusive and innovative practices can lead to impactful solutions. Whether you're a seasoned professional or new to the field, this session will provide you with the tools and inspiration to foster meaningful partnerships and drive positive change. Embrace the cool kid mindset and learn how to make a lasting difference by collaborating with a wide array of voices and perspectives.
We hope you will come to mix and mingle, prepared to collaborate!
Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Time: 4-6:30pm
Location: Black Arts Cultural Center, 359 S. Kalamazoo Mall, 49007
About Ashnee
Ashnee V. Dunning is a strategic visionary, servant leader, energy producer, and super learner. She enjoys sunshine, laughing, breathing and thinking. Ashnee serves as CEO of the Power Initiative, a social profit agency that engages in programs, services, projects and relationships that support communities to identify gaps and facilitate solutions to real life experiences. She is also the Executive Director of the Flint Freedom Schools Collaborative, a strategic disruption to educational injustice. Ashnee is the First Vice President of the Flint Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and spends much of her time volunteering on various boards and community projects.
At the foundation of all that Mrs. Dunning does, is a commitment to curating positive culture, cultivating talent, developing systems and mobilizing solutions. She is an “ask forgiveness, not permission”, “make it make sense”, “say it with your chest”, “loyalty, loyalty, loyalty” queen of Wakanda and Northside Flintstone. Ashnee is blessed to spend much of her time practicing Black liberation and fighting systemic oppression alongside a group of genuine and dynamic individuals, and does much of her work with a baby on her hip. Ashnee V. Dunning is the daughter of Michelle R. Young, granddaughter of Stevella Young, and great granddaughter of Mary Ella March. She is her ancestors’ wildest dreams and the manifestation of her village’s prayers. Ashnee is on a journey to reclaim her time by choosing joy and rejecting societal norms that do not suit her legacy, unapologetically.