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We are excited and looking forward to an Emotional Intelligence (EI) interactive workshop lead by Dena Simmons, Director of Implementation from Yale’s Center of Emotional Intelligence. Dena will be sharing with us EI tools in order to create a workplace where we feel safe to thrive and succeed in. She will guide us in defining how we want to feel in our own workplaces and set smart goals in taking actions to build them together. This event is sponsored by Future Leaders of Yale and the Yale African American Affinity Group.
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Bio: Dena Simmons, Ed.D., is a lifelong activist, educator, and student of life. A native of the Bronx, New York, Dena grew up in a one-bedroom apartment with her two sisters and immigrant mother. There, Dena learned and lived the violence of injustice and inequity and decided to dedicate her life to educating and empowering others. As the Director of Implementation at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, she works with schools to use the power of emotions to create a more effective and compassionate society. Prior to her work at the Center, Dena served as an educator, teacher educator, diversity facilitator, and curriculum developer. She has been a leading voice on teacher education and has spoken across the country about social justice pedagogy, diversity, education reform, and bullying in K-12 school settings, including two TEDx talks and a TED talk on Broadway (New York). She writes and has written for numerous outlets including for Teaching Tolerance, Bright on Medium, Stop Street Harassment, Feminist Teacher, and Feministing. Dena has been profiled in the Huffington Post, the AOL/PBS project, MAKERS: Women Who Make America, and a Beacon Press Book, Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists. Dena is a recipient of a Harry S. Truman Scholarship, a J. William Fulbright Fellowship, an Education Pioneers Fellowship, a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, a Phillips Exeter Academy Dissertation Fellowship, an Arthur Vining Davis Aspen Fellowship, and a Pahara NextGen Fellowship among others. She received her doctorate degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, and her research interests include teacher preparedness to address bullying in the K-12 school setting and social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions—all in an effort to ensure and foster justice and safe spaces for all.