SAIL seeks to promote understanding and awareness for all through intersectional, change-oriented training and consultation tailored to your needs.

Our unique approach incorporates marginalized gender identities and sexualities along with youth voices.

SAIL collaborates with your organization to consult or create workshops and/or resources to support the work towards welcoming environments for all. This can happen through working with your existing Professional Development Teams, analyzing procedures and processes within your organization, giving suggestions on certain situations, and/or giving basic trainings.

An intersectional approach to educating and informing communities on issues of diversity in identities, cultures, ethnicities, and abilities is what SAIL takes.

SAIL has experience working in professional settings such as social services, local governments, and businesses; and with youth groups.

Virtual and in person services are both available

Training and Consultation fees are on a sliding scale based on the type and needs of the organization

SAIL’s Consultants and Trainers

Backgrounds:

  • Many years experience in doing diversity and educational trainings

  • Degrees and course work in a variety topics connected to SAIL’s work

  • Representation from various identities, cultures, ethnicities, and abilities. 

  • Broad personal experiences which directly and indirectly connect with trainings and consultation

Areas of expertise:

  • Educating through Unique and Interactive Program

  • Basic 101 Trainings of:

    • Gender identity 

    • Sexuality 

    • Queer Community

  • Empathy and understanding in creating welcoming environments, after the 101 training

    • gender identities 

    • sexuality 

    • disabilities

  • Implicit and Social Bias

  • Exploring what respect, dignity, and collaboration mean

  • Media representation of the Queer Community 

  • Self-Advocacy (both youth and adults)

  • Healthy Relationships and Consent 

  • Youth leadership

Trainer Bio

Julie Alexandrin, Ph.D. - Julie started her professional career as a teacher in an integrated unit with all types of students in Urban Milwaukee. She has worked in many different types of school districts as an educator, trainer, and consultant since. Julie earned her doctorate with studies in Special Education, Gifted and Talented Education, and Diversity Education. Her scholarship and teaching focuses on how implicit and social biases affect our relationships and interactions with others.

Julie currently holds a position at the University of Phoenix where she is an administrator who supervises online faculty and teaches general studies courses. As Phoenix serves a significant number of underrepresented students who are successful and graduate at higher rates than other institutions, Julie work greatly involves coaching professors supporting students who they perceive as different from themselves. Working at a fully online University allows Julie to live full time with her wife on the family beef cattle farm in Central Virginia. 

Prior to the University of Phoenix, Julie was Department Chair at the University of Southern Maine where she oversaw all Education and School Psychology Programs. There, one of her accomplishments was running an annual conference for 200 people.  The Welcoming and Safe Schools Youth Conference focused on youth issues and diversity and the majority of the presentations were made by youth.

Julie has made the rounds of conferences and workshops throughout the US.  Her  presentations teach participants how to connect with others and learn to feel comfortable and be productive when working with people who may see the world differently than themselves. She created SAIL to further this work. 

 


Meet the Contributors

Youth and Adults who are currently volunteering at SAIL collaborating on our trainings and workshops.

  • Jilan Tobar specializes in translating sales strategies into actionable training and tools using instructional design adult learning principles and agile development methodologies. Her professional experience and passion for social justice led her to join SAIL in 2021. Jilan collaborates with SAIL’s other trainers and consultants to develop and deliver training that creates connections and safe environments for all. She also mentors youth participants of SAIL’s AMPLIFY. A member of the queer community, Jilan is particularly focused on education and advocacy for the queer community.

  • Lily is an English Literature student at York St John University in the United Kingdom. She believes in the power of narratives to create community and empathy. In her free time, she enjoys sewing, knitting, and crocheting.

  • Though some youth and adults no longer volunteer at SAIL, their past collaborations live on in SAIL’s Training and Consultation Work. We like to thank the following for all their hard work at SAIL.

    Morgan Atkinson

    Denise Kimbrel

    Ana C. Mijangos

    Oliver Bullington-McGuire

    Jason Neiswinter

    Ashton Cumpston