Membership Meeting: Intersectionality Lab

Join us for our December HEDR Membership Meeting featuring a Community Intersectionality Lab — a hands-on session where members will work in small groups to unpack real-life scenarios through an intersectional lens.

Intersectionality helps us understand how overlapping identities — such as race, gender, ability, class, sexuality, and age — shape people’s experiences of inclusion, exclusion, and opportunity. This session invites participants to move beyond theory and into practice: analyzing real-world examples, surfacing power dynamics, and identifying inclusive strategies that respond to complex realities in our communities.

Working in groups of 5–7, participants will explore a scenario drawn from everyday organizational or community contexts and use guided questions to consider how multiple systems of advantage and disadvantage interact. Together, we’ll reflect on what intersectional approaches can teach us about creating more equitable and responsive practices.

This interactive lab is designed for learning, collaboration, and reflection — no prior expertise in intersectionality is…