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We’re the Unicorns: A Workshop for Women of Color Students for Success, Community, and Empowerment
with Dr. Dumayi Gutierrez
This workshop will center the social, emotional, and mental well-being of Women of Color (WOC) students. Participants will tap into empowerment of their intersecting identities, shred microaggressions, and apply techniques of resiliency and balance to support academic success. At the end of the workshop, participants will engage in networking and enjoy refreshments. All are welcome.
This workshop centers the social, emotional, and mental well-being of WOC students navigating academic, professional, and personal spaces. Drawing from the presenter’s lived experience and published research, participants will become aware of adversities and strengths (i.e., intersecting identities as WOC, self-esteem, and confidence) and cultural factors (i.e., family communication, and independent and collectivist relationships).
This session will also provide language around systems of power in academia, while tapping into ancestral and cultural strengths, and meaning making around empowerment as a student.
Through experiential activities, discussions, and reflections, the session will highlight three grounding practices: creating an affirming community, engaging in professional and personal identity conversations, and seeking fulfilling safe mentorship and networking opportunities. These practices will also highlight boundary making, finding joy, and further equip participants with coping and logistical strategies to excel in higher education while sustaining wellness, confidence, and personal and collective resilience.
Lastly, participants will engage in community building and networking with refreshments provided.
| The Details | |
| Dates | Saturday, April 4, 2026 |
| Time | 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
| Cost | Free |
| Location | In-person at CU Denver |
| Graduate Credits Available | 0 |
Audience: Women of Color students
Purpose & Outcomes
- Identify individual and relationship factors that influence social, emotional, and mental well-being in academic spaces.
- Apply three specific grounding practices to support resiliency in academia including community, identity, and mentorship.
- Develop coping and logistical strategies to promote confidence and balance for academic success while navigating systems shaped by power.
Dr. Dumayi Gutierrez
Facilitator
Dr. Gutierrez is an award-winning scholar devoted to working with BIPOC sexually and gender expansive communities and Women of Color in academia, with a dedicated focus on Latinx/e populations. She has published and presented nationally on minority stress, intersectionality constructs of self and family systems, intercultural and interracial couple dynamics, cultural resiliencies, and multicultural humble care through an innovative intersectional ecological systems framework.
Clinically, she uses a narrative, experiential, and feminist approach, incorporating techniques of advocacy and empowerment. Dr Gutierrez has served as clinical coordinator and family therapist for the LGBTQ Counseling Clinic in Iowa, and The Gender & Family Project at the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York City. These experiences and belonging to the BIPOC LGBTQ+ community, have laid the foundation for her interdisciplinary clinical work nationwide.
Dr. Gutierrez is devoted to working with BIPOC sexually and gender expansive communities and Women of Color in academia, with a dedicated focus on Latinx/e populations. She has published and presented nationally on minority stress, intersectionality constructs of self and family systems, intercultural and interracial couple dynamics, cultural resiliencies, and multicultural humble care through an innovative intersectional ecological systems framework.