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509 Collective

DEEA Be COURAGEOUS: Initiate

Join us for our Be COURAGEOUS: Initiate Training Training w/ 509 Collective. Be supported through education and the development of policies, procedures, and accountability practices to build more anti-racist, anti-othering, and anti-abusive educational dance spaces together. Let's reimagine dance education, together, through actionable steps! 
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What's included?

  • 10 Chapters
  • 1 Certification
  • Over 100 Resources 
  • Video Responses

Ideas without action are just ideas.

Work with DEEA to transform you ideas into positive change. Let's reimagine dance education together. 

Course Outline 

Meet the Facilitator

Geri Brown 

Hi, I'm Geri. I’m the founder of DEEA, a storyteller, writer, educator, producer, and entrepreneur whose work is threaded in breaking barriers. As an educator and entrepreneur, I am the proud founder of three dance education organizations: Liberate Artists INCAlways, Enough Foundation, and Dance Education Equity Association. In continuing to utilize dance as the catalyst for change, I serve on the Intersectionality Committee for the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science, am a board member for Feel the Beat, and I serve in an advisory position in DEIA and fundraising roles for the newly established Choreographers Guild. In addition to my work in education, I am the founder and executive producer of Boundary Issues Media. Boundary Issues Media is a digital and traditional media company that utilizes multiple platforms to tell one story or topic through the lens of underrepresented identities. From storyteller to educator to entrepreneur to producer, I inspire all to create positive change, in the positions in which folks hold power, while continuing to remind communities everywhere that, "You Are Enough," exactly as you are, in the skin and body you are in.” 
Patrick Jones - Course author