Building Compassionate Community Pt 1:
The Role of End-of-Life Doulas in Serving the 2SLGBTQIA+ Community
Recorded: June 2022
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Webinar Guest Speakers:
Julie Weinstein – Chief Development Officer, ACLU of Southern California
Kathleen LaTosch – Director and Principal Consultant of LaTosch
Webinar Moderator:
Jamie Eaddy Chism – INELDA Director of Program Development
In honor of Pride month, join INELDA’s monthly webinar as we explore intersectionality and how end-of-life doulas can nurture connections in and across communities. We are committed to making death care education and doulas accessible for all, but realize that many experience inequities in care because of gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.
Guests Julie Weinstein, CDO of the ACLU of Southern California, and Kathleen LaTosch, founder of LaTosch Consulting, will share their wisdom and practical knowledge of how we can effectively establish and develop relationships that honor folx from various walks of life. Increase your fluency, understanding, and skills to make inclusivity more of a reality.
INELDA director of program development, Dr. Jamie Eaddy Chism, will facilitate this webinar, bringing her deep awareness of intersectionality in the context of dying and death. Come expand your ability to make the world a safer, more supportive place.
Speaker Bios:
For 25 years, Julie Weinstein has dedicated her career to social and environmental justice, working intersectionally to help dismantle white supremacy and systems of oppression and to safeguard and restore natural ecosystems. Throughout her career she has guided organizations in transformational expansion and sustainability efforts to advance the rights of people, protect the planet, and promote the creative arts. Julie currently serves as a senior executive leader at one of the largest American Civil Liberties Union affiliates in her role as chief development officer at the ACLU of Southern California, and previously for the ACLU of New Mexico.
She also serves as both a Jewish and Buddhist chaplain within the Los Angeles County jails (the largest jail system in the world) and as a movement chaplain, providing spiritual support and pastoral counseling in the justice movement for leaders, activists, organizers, and impacted community members.
Julie holds an advanced certificate in Integrative Thanatology from The Open Center in New York City and is currently seeking ordination as a rabbinic pastor from ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. Julie coleads two community affinity groups for LGBTQIA2S+ and women-identified people across the globe. She cowrote and coillustrated a forthcoming book with her twin sister about the life and teachings of Ram Dass, to be published by Simon & Schuster in December 2022.
Kathleen LaTosch, MSW, is the director and principal consultant of LaTosch Consulting, which helps nonprofit organizations be their best at changing the world by centering equity and inclusion. She founded LaTosch Consulting in 2012 after leading the planning and implementation of a four-year racial inclusiveness initiative for Affirmations, Michigan’s largest LGBTQIA2S+ community center, which earned the organization a Corp! Magazine Diversity Award in 2011. Over the course of the last nine years, LaTosch leveraged that experience to assist dozens of Michigan organizations through the process of identifying and implementing action plans to build greater diversity, equity, and inclusion.
LaTosch is also a recognized leader in Michigan on issues around aging within the LGBTQIA2S+ community. In 2011 she cofounded SAGE Metro Detroit, a nonprofit dedicated to serving LGBTQIA2S+ elders, and was appointed by Rick Snyder, then governor of Michigan, to the state’s Commission on Services to the Aging in 2015. She recently completed her second term on the commission, chairing the advocacy committee. She was honored in 2017 with the Ed McNamara Award, bestowed by The Senior Alliance—the Area Agency on Aging serving Western Wayne County—for her exemplary work in helping the organization achieve internal culture shifts with regard to serving lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender older adults.
In addition to strategic planning services, she supports intercultural skill development using the research-based Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). A qualified administrator of the IDI, she offers intercultural assessment and development for members at all levels within organizations. LaTosch holds a master of social work from Eastern Michigan University.
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