Navigating the system and finding your power: A roadmap for multicultural women at UTS

Join Yemi Penn for a transformative workshop designed to empower multicultural women at UTS. This session will create the space to explore global injustices and their responding solidarity movements, how this manifests in higher education, and the shortcomings and opportunities of mainstream feminism in addressing intersectional issues.

Through interactive discussions and practical strategies, workshop attendees will learn how to navigate and effect change within systems that have historically excluded marginalised groups. This workshop aims to name the things that need to be named, build a stronger sense of community, and provide tools for personal and professional empowerment.

Workshop Goals:

Empowerment: Equipping participants with the tools to foster self-efficacy and assertiveness in both personal and professional realms. (showing up as our whole selves).
Navigating Systems: Practical advice on manoeuvring through and effecting change in institutions that have historically excluded marginalised groups.

Note that this event is hosted as part of Global Goals Month and is only open to multicultural women at UTS.

Lunch will be provided after the session from 12pm and is an opportunity to connect with Yemi and other workshop participants.

Workshop facilitator: Yemi Penn

Yemi Penn is a fearless thought leader on creating your own memo, meaning ‘she’ gets to write the script of her life and encourages others to do the same. An engineer by profession, an entrepreneur by passion having run 3 successful businesses in the past and a Curious Rebel by mission. She is now researching the alchemy of transmuting pain to power with a strong desire to learn new ways of being whilst challenging the status quo. Yemi invites the collective to ignite their rebellious curiosity in all aspects of their life, sharing the tools to do just that. She fuses the creative art of filmmaking with her analytical mind as she shifts her core life’s purpose to raising the vibration of acknowledging and healing our individual and therefore collective trauma, something individuals, communities and organisations alike have experienced over the past couple of years.