Full Name
Rebecca Slaby
Job Title
Executive Director
Company
AMAZEworks
Speaker Bio
Rebecca leads AMAXEworks in working with schools, communities, and organizations to create equity and belonging for children and adults. She has presented extensively on Anti-Bias Education in schools and the workplace with a focus on cultural responsiveness, bias, identity and stereotype threat, microaggressions, and other DEIB topics and has co-authored two AMAZEworks curriculums. With a MEd from DePaul University, she has 15 years of experience teaching middle school humanities/social studies and has worked with schools and organizations on issues of equity, inclusion, and justice on institutional, state, and regional levels. She has been a racial justice facilitator for the YWCA Minneapolis and is a trained cultural competency facilitator for the Professional Educators Licensing and Standards Board for the state of Minnesota. She has presented at the Overcoming Racism, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, Forum on Workplace Inclusion, and local, regional, and national education conferences. She holds a certificate of Executive Leadership from the University of St. Thomas and teaches courses on equity-based pedagogy at the University of Minnesota. She also sits on the boards of Upstream Arts and the First Universalist Church of Minneapolis.
Rebecca Slaby