About the Workshop
Presenters: Ashlyn Adams (She/Her/Sir) and Wren Reeve (They/Them/Mx)
Adult Led
Level: Intermediate
For: Both High School & Middle School Students
Description: A workshop entitled “Growing and Protecting Your Identity”. A workshop guiding youth in collaborating and signal boosting on social media, while maintaining safety and awareness online. Part 1: An Introduction to youth intersecting identities how they are viewed and shared online. Youth will write down on a flashcard some parts of their identity, (age, gender identity, style, type of presence online) all anonymous. The cards will be collected and redistributed at random, and then the youth will be asked to call out responses on their card based on the questions provided to figure out who they got. Part 2: We will transition into a presentation on how to keep yourself safe online and how to advocate and signal boost while maintaining awareness and respect of different identities and cultures. Making sure that queer youth has the skills to protect themselves online while being able to maintain a sense of identity, an outlet for truth and justice in a new generation is so important. With the skills that they will learn in this workshop, youth can teach and pass along to others.
About the Presenters
Wren Reeve (They/Them/Mx)
The Diversity Center Santa Cruz County, Youth Program Coordinator
Bio: Wren Reeve is a Santa Cruz local, who is the second generation in their family as a part of the Queer community in Santa Cruz. They have been an activist and advocate in the LGBTIQ+ community since middle school, and work now to provide resources and brave spaces for all youth. They work at the Diversity Center Santa Cruz as a youth program coordinator.
Ashlyn Adams (She/Her/Sir)
The Diversity Center Santa Cruz County, Youth Program Coordinator
Bio: Ashlyn raised herself and her siblings in the Bay Area and came to Santa Cruz for college at UCSC. Ashlyn’s works as a youth program coordinator, commissioner on the Justice And Gender county commission, digital literacy and access educator, and provides Gender Identity/Sexuality trainings with EDI Educators. She is a Youth Program Coordinator at The Diversity Center Santa Cruz.
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