Joce Ryder
Whether business, nonprofit or groups of individuals with common interests, how do you create a brave space to address issues of gender and racial bias? You are likely losing and wasting talent if your organization refuses to acknowledge that racism and sexism are a part of your culture. How could they not be? They are threaded through the fabric of American life. When you decide to deal with these issues, you get a brilliant, impactful, and productive team capable of taking your organization to your industry's leading edge.
ACCOUNTABILITY: What it is and
why you need it
As Google's Project Aristotle confirmed, psychological safety is the most important attribute of successful teams. Psychological, emotional and physical safety are the keys to functional working relationships, communities and businesses.
Being accountable means taking responsibility for your actions, and learning to take opposite action
Joce Ryder
Facilitator and Trainer
I lead companies and communities to impactful accountability, equity and inclusion
Joce Ryder (they/them) has more than a decade of experience as a restorative-justice mediator and facilitator. Before embracing their truth as a non-binary person, they came to the womanalive Violating Intervention and Prevention Program in 2010, as a participant. Joce soon observed how interpersonal violating is played out on a macro scale in our culture: misogynist, ableist, capitalist, militarist, white supremacist, etc., patterns create and support superior/inferior gender roles used to control and coerce those who are considered less than or other. Inspired to pursue this work, from 2011 to 2015 Joce was womanalive's director and facilitator. The San Francisco Adult Probation Department’s (SFAPD) Domestic Violence Unit certified them as a batterer intervention program provider. Joce worked with more than 100 women, referred by SFAPD, the Los Angeles Adult Probation Department, and by Child Protective Services. In 2012, Joce was an advisor to San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera's legal team during ethics commission hearings for suspended sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, convicted of domestic violence against his partner. They also spent a year training and brainstorming with a Swords to Ploughshares cohort convened to find solutions to military personnel's post-deployment domestic violence.
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Joce has been a guest lecturer at Berkeley Law and the University of San Francisco. Currently, Joce is on the board of directors for the non-profit Greenermind Summit, a community of environmental, financial, and social sustainability leaders. Joce continues to focus their work on interrupting violating wherever it thrives, whether between individual people, citizens and their governments, or workers and their employers. All of Joce’s trainings utilize applied improv, lots of humor, and the most important aspect of successful facilitation: validation of lived experience.
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