Amanda Florence Goodenough, M.S. Ed.
Amanda Florence Goodenough (she/her/hers) is a dedicated educator operating from a cultural humility framework to center and elevate historically marginalized voices, promote belongingness and mattering, disrupt structural inequities, and advance intersectional social and racial justice. Amanda has over 15 years of professional experience in equity, diversity, inclusion, and justice efforts within a higher education setting. Currently, Amanda serves as the Director of Campus Climate at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (UWL), while also being a part-time doctoral candidate in UWL’s Student Affairs Administration and Leadership program. On campus, in addition to facilitating workshops, programming, and assessment, Amanda has provided leadership for Awareness through Performance and the Hate Response Team for over a decade and has co-founded RISE UP (Racial & Intersecting Identity Symposium for Equitable University Progress) and the nationally-growing Hate/Bias Response Symposium. Amanda is also a consultant, speaker, and team-lead with Social Responsibility Speaks, LLC. Amanda's focus areas include campus climate/culture, cultural humility, hate/bias response, anti-blackness, racial justice, multiracialism, microaggressions, bystander intervention, student activism, power/privilege/oppression, and healing centered engagement. Amanda resides in Wisconsin, where she attended the University of Wisconsin-Platteville for her Bachelor's degree in Communications, before heading to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse to earn a Master's in College Student Development & Administration. In her personal life, Amanda and her partner enjoy raising their multiracial kiddos and helping them to make meaning of the world.
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 | 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM (CDT)
Sticks and Stones: From Hurting to Healing
No place is immune to hate, bias, and everyday bigotry. Is your school/organization ready to respond? What proactive measures can you be taking? How do we foster environments that resist hate and bias, and embrace belonging and mattering? With these questions as the backdrop, this conversation will explore hate/bias prevention and intervention efforts through a race explicit (not exclusive) lens. By leaning on the joys, challenges, successes, and missteps experienced across 15+ years of story-holding through her leadership on a Hate Response Team, Amanda will present a critical social justice framework to move us from hurting to healing, while pushing for an educational revolution that advances racial equity and justice.