Black Feminist Social Work Toolbox: Integrating Black Feminist Social Work Principles and Values

Creative and collaborative centered, through guided reflections, attendees will navigate prompts and exercises designed to deepen their awareness of their connection and embodiment practices that encourage integration of black feminist social work values/principles. These reflective activities, which include journal and creative promptings, will encourage attendees to share personal insights and challenges, with the hopes of fostering a collaborative atmosphere of learning and growth. By the end of the session, attendees will leave with practical tools and frameworks to apply Black feminist principles in their work, and a community of black feminist social workers.

Sequoya is a multi state licensed social worker, which includes North Carolina, Colorado and Indiana. She has taught at schools such as East West University, Purdue University, and Metropolitan State University in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Gender and Women’s Studies and Social Work Departments.

She is the founder of Red Linen Moon Wellness and Consulting, an organization that provides integrative wellness services and products to non-profit organizations, private practice therapist, and social practice artist. She is currently a nonprofit mentor to nonprofit leaders with Leadership Fellows of New York. Some of her other projects and collaborations include being the co-host of the Reclaiming Soul Work Podcast, a podcast that centers the intersections of spirituality, mental health and social justice; and the Co-Director of the Safer Movements Collective, a peer support group that centers healing from relational trauma and violence in organizing spaces.

Sequoya currently organizes and hosts the Black Feminist Landscapes Virtual Reading Salon and the Exploring Black Feminist Values in Art series. In addition to her work as a practitioner, Sequoya is a community educator, artist, auntie, and mom to an emotional support pup named Winnie.