Zoom Event: Recentering Respect: Transatlantic Insights on Practices for Dignity and Inclusion – Sep 24

Posted by GJG Training and Consulting on September 9, 2025

As we begin a new school year, regardless of the sector we work in, it’s worth remembering that universities, at their best, are spaces for knowledge creation, innovation, and human progress. Far from the current critiques, they can serve as places where respect, dignity, and belonging guide the pursuit of truth.

Yet across the U.S. and U.K., divisive debates over discrimination, immigration, and indoctrination are pushing aside those very values from our organizations. In the U.S., executive and state-level pressure has led to funding cuts, dismantling of inclusion offices, censorship, and blatant attempts to rewrite history. Higher education has become a principal battleground, with its role in shaping critical thought and public understanding under sustained attack. What, then, can we learn from leaders of equity and inclusion efforts in higher education from both sides of the Atlantic?

Join us for the next episode of Translocating Inclusion on September 24 at 12:00 PM. Gardy J. Guiteau, Founder and Principal, GJG Training and Consulting, will be joined by Dr. Tiffenia Archie (Temple University) and Dr. Wayne Mitchell (Imperial College London) for a conversation titled “Recentering Respect: Transatlantic Insights on Practices for Dignity and Inclusion.”

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Dr. Tiffenia D. Archie serves as Associate Vice President and Chief Inclusion Officer at Temple University, where she provides strategic leadership for Inclusive Education and Engagement, Student Engagement, Faculty Recruitment and Retention, Gender and Sexuality Inclusion, Interfaith Inclusion, and the Center for Anti-Racism. She is also co-creator of the Certificate in Diversity Leadership, a collaboration with Temple’s College of Education and Human Development. Prior to this work at Temple, Dr. Archie served as director of faculty recruitment and retention at Temple University and was the director of academic support, disability support, and retention at Albright College.

Beyond Temple, Dr. Archie lends her expertise to multiple boards, including Albright College, Interfaith Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania SPCA, and serves as a Commissioner on the City of Philadelphia’s Muslim Engagement Commission.

In her work as a consultant, Tiff is committed to advancing social justice through mentoring, program development, service, teaching, training, and consulting; her consulting clients include the Philadelphia Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the Mann Music Center, and the Barnes Foundation.

Her leadership and impact have been recognized with numerous honors, including the Outstanding Leader in Education Award from the Association of Black Women in Higher Education and the Jacob Albright Award, the highest honor bestowed on Albright College alumni.

Dr. Archie earned dual undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Sociology and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Temple University. She is also a contributing author of “A Diversity Leader Speaks: Higher Education Needs a Cultural Shift” in Incivility and Higher Education: The Costs of Bad Behavior (2023).

Dr. Wayne Mitchell is the Associate Provost for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Principal Teaching Fellow and Senior Tutor, and Faculty of Medicine in the Department of Immunology and Inflammation at Imperial College London. In addition to oversight of EDI programs, Dr. Mitchell is the Co-Chair of Imperial College Race Equity Staff Network, Imperial As One, which promotes greater understanding and inclusivity for the diverse College community. One of his roles includes hosting Imperial As One’s weekly interview series, Belonging, which explores the lived experience of individuals from minoritized groups. He is also the co-chair for the National Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Academic Leads (NEDIAL) and on the Board of Trustees for the Black Researchers Consortium.

Before serving in this role, as a teaching faculty, in 2019, Dr. Mitchell joined Imperial College’s Race Equality Charter-Self Assessment Team to help understand the impact that being a member of a minoritized group at Imperial College has on their sense of belonging and identity as a BME student. In 2021, along with the Co-chairs of Imperial As One, he received the President’s Medal for Excellence for Community and Culture.

Wayne is a founding member of the Black Scholars Collective and in 2024, they published The Black PhD Experience: Stories of Strengthen, Courage and Wisdom in UK Academia exploring 27 stories of being a Black doctoral student.

Wayne’s passion and flexible working approach have had a positive impact on many students’ academic and personal experience, as well as other staff. In 2018, he was the recipient of the President’s Medal for Excellence in Supporting the Student Experience.

Dr. Mitchell undertook postdoctoral positions in Cancer Biology and Immunology after completing a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics at University College London. He completed a Master’s in Education at Imperial College, focusing on the experiences of Black British students at elite universities and how their ‘minority status’ impacts their sense of belonging and identity. His foundational studies in higher education were completed at the University of Birmingham with a degree in Biomedical Science.