Training for Trust: Supporting Organizational Clients Through Community-Centered, Culturally Responsive Practice

With:
Quisquella Addison
Assistant Teaching Professor, Northeastern University School of Law: CLEAR Faculty Fellow

Jill Dupree
Associate Teaching Professor of Economics

Dimitrie Sissi Mukanyiligira
Author, gender activist and genocide survivor.

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This workshop explores how to prepare students across disciplines to engage with organizational clients in ways that are culturally appropriate, trauma- informed, and grounded in community-defined needs. We will reflect on how students can build trust, navigate cultural difference with humility and center client agency in their work. The workshop challenges dominant development and service models, advocating for localized, participatory approaches over top-down interventions. We offer a framework for training students to enter unfamiliar communities not as experts, but as active learners and collaborators practicing sustained allyship.