Tiffany Ramm is a Licensed Therapist, private practice owner, and Success & Resilience Coach with over 15 years of experience working in social service and mental health. Tiffany recently gave her first TEDx Talk regarding “Practicing Vulnerability,” where she used her own life experience surviving financial and emotional abuse as a way to teach others how to practice vulnerability as a strength and how vulnerability can save others from abuse. Tiffany also has over 15 years of experience in entertainment and media as a professional model, actress, radio, podcast, and television host. Tiffany speaks on topics related to: practicing vulnerability, treatment of trauma, narrative exposure therapy, radical self care, and many other topics. Using social media she is able to uniquely utilize her skills as a Licensed Mental Health Professional and Influencer to help others succeed without losing their minds and harness the power of telling their own story.
SESSION OVERVIEW
No Such Thing as Color Blind
As a bi-racial woman, Tiffany will utilize the power of storytelling, sharing her own experience with “color blindness” and microaggressions by her own family, to demonstrate the downsides to “color blindness” including: how not recognizing racial difference in an attempt to treat everyone the same ignores systemic inequality, dismisses cultural identity, prevents constructive dialogue, and can actually perpetuate inequality.
Instead of striving for "color blindness," Tiffany will use her stories and those of community members and former clients to demonstrate the necessity for “cultural consciousness,” having the knowledge and skills to be aware of one's own cultural values and those of others and the implications of these in making respectful, reflective, choices, and working actively to address inequalities.