California Career Development Association
Creating and nurturing workplaces where women of color can fully contribute, grow, access opportunity, and succeed must be a business imperative for every organization.
In honor of Black History Month and Women’s History Month, CCDA’s DEIA Committee invites you to: Building Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Women of Color, facilitated by Antoinette Manuel, M.Ed. and Chantelle Comeau, M.Ed. This free, interactive session will explore strategies for co-creating safer, inclusive, equitable, and culturally responsive workplaces.
Speaker Info:
Antoinette Manuel is a current doctoral student in the Leadership and Innovation Ed.D program at the University of the Pacific, and a Senior Associate at the California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions. Her dissertation explores the community cultural wealth of Black women in their everyday acts of resistance. Antoinette brings experience working with community-based organizations that are focused on sustainable growth and impact. She holds a B.S. in Sociology and an M.A. in Education from Sacramento State University. Antoinette is passionate about creating collaborative environments where equity and innovation intersect.
Connect with Antoinette - https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinette-m-899341112/
Chantelle Comeau, MEd, is currently serving in the Office of Health Equity at the California Department of Public Health, where she is tasked with implementing a trauma-informed Equity framework across the department through policies and programmatic initiatives. Inspired by her time in the University of the Pacific’s Leadership for Social Justice graduate program, Chantelle is currently designing the LOCUS Lab (short for Leadership in Organizational Change Uplifting Social Justice). In its early stages, the LOCUS Lab is intended to be a collaborative, human-centered space for learning, healing, and creativity. The LOCUS Lab will serve as a vibrant hub for connection, collaboration, and co-creating for current students, prospective scholars, and alumni of the program.
Connect with Antoinette - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chantelle-comeau-6ba273142/
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This session will focus on insights from NCDA ’s AI Taskforce and provide a toolkit informed by the impacts of AI, the practical applications AI and the ethical questions we all love to debate.
This panel conversation will focus on
Practical AI toolkits for career practitioners
When and how to use AI responsibly (and when not to)
Client/student wellbeing and decision fatigue in the age of AI
What must always remain human-led in career development
How AI can support exploration across the lifespan (not just K–12)
Panelist information:
If you would like to read up on the recommendations from the NCDA AI Taskforce, follow the link below to the NCDA website.
https://www.ncda.org/aws/NCDA/pt/sp/ai-resources
Dr. David Paul will moderate a presentation of panelists who have all successfully obtained a license as a clinical counselor here in California.
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7155760609?omn=87111289648Meeting ID: 715 576 0609Passcode: CCDA
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7155760609?omn=87111289648
Speaker Bio: Dr. David Paul is the System-wide Director and Associate Professor in the Clinical Counseling program at Alliant International University. Dr. Paul has a PhD. in Counselor Education and Supervision from Barry University. Dr. Paul was admitted to memberships in Delta Epsilon Iota, Academic & Leadership Honor Society, and Chi Sigma Iota, Academic & Professional Honor Society International. Dr. Paul has 30 years of administrative, supervision, research, counseling, teaching, and student affairs experience in higher education and community settings. Dr. Paul is also a Licensed Professional Counselor from the Board of Behavioral Health and Therapies, Nationally Certified Counselor and a Board Approved Supervisor from the National Board of Certified Counselors. Dr. Paul has also been employed at the California State University, Minnesota State University, Barry University and New York State University.
More to come soon.
This is the final event for the year. CCDA will be back with new programing starting in September 2026.
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