From Scarcity to Access: Cultural Implications of Poverty Trauma
February 13, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Virtual – Live/Online
Fee: $50 for MCN members / $70 for nonmembers
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Poverty trauma influences cultural values, behaviors, and identity formation, often perpetuating cycles of exclusion and disadvantage. In urban, suburban, and rural communities, geographic isolation, limited access to transportation, healthcare, education, healthy food, and jobs – as well as the stigma associated with poverty – can create generational trauma and distrust of social institutions. This session will explore the effects of poverty and poverty trauma on the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of children and adults in our schools, neighborhoods, workplaces, and social settings. By exploring concepts such as scarcity mindset, survival-based decision-making, and the intersectionality of poverty with other marginalized identities, this interactive workshop will provide attendees with practical tools for fostering inclusivity and support for those with lived experiences of poverty trauma – in our workplaces, schools, and community settings.
Event Details
This virtual event will take place on the Zoom platform. Your access link will be emailed to you the day before the event after 12 p.m.
This session will be recorded. The recording will be available to registrants for 14 days after the live event.
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Speaker Information
Kaitlin Desselle, MS, brings over 10 years of inclusive leadership experience and business innovation to the team. With a strong corporate background in crisis and change management, she is passionate about building empowered teams and organizational cultures that interrupt systems of oppression and marginalization.
Kaitlin served as a Diversity Educator and on the Chancellor’s Commission for LGBTQ People at the University of Tennessee, where she earned a Masters degree in Educational Psychology with a research focus in Critical HROD and Queer Empowerment. She currently serves as Vice President of Business Development for Strategic Diversity Initiatives (SDI).
As a queer woman and fat liberation activist, Kaitlin is passionate about creating safer spaces where all bodies are celebrated and have agency. Her approach to social justice work balances reformist activism with mindfulness and emotional intelligence. She is an Emotional Intelligence Practitioner certified in the EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 260 methodology, as well as a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI).