Agenda

Combating Structural Racism and Child Poverty

Promoting Institutional Equity and Mental Wellness

Facilitating Civic Engagement and Social Change

 

Monday, June 21: Combating Structural Racism and Child Poverty

4-6:00 p.m.

Introductions

Piano: Moisès Fernández Via

Keynote and Restorative Justice Workshop

Professor Debbie Watters, Founding Director, Northern Ireland Initiatives; Visiting Professor, Ulster University, Belfast Ireland

Piano: Moisès Fernández Via

6-7 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions (Choose One)
  • Combating Structural Racism and Child Poverty
    • Lucy Marcil, M.D., Megan Sandel: Pediatricians, BU School of Medicine
    • Renée Boynton Jarrett, M.D., Sc.D.,: Pediatrician, Social Epidemiologist, Vital Village Founder, BU Medical
  • Child Health & Family Food Security and Housing Stability
    • Deborah Frank, M.D.,: Professor, BU Medical
    • Timothy Hintz: Social Work, Brookline Public Schools
    • Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, Ph.D.,: Children’s Health Watch, BU School for Public Health
  • Racial Equity in the Early Years; Racial Equity through Play
    • Stephanie Curenton, Ph.D., (Center on the Ecology of Early Development) & Ruth Paris, Ph.D., Martha Vibbert, Ph.D., Ellie Friedland, Ph.D., Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being

 

Tuesday, June 22: Promoting Institutional Equity and Mental Wellness

4-4:30 p.m.

Keynote

Rahsaan Hall, J.D., Director, Racial Justice Program, ACLU Massachusetts

4:30-5:30 p.m.

Panel Discussion

When is policing a problem? Rahsaan Hall, Rachael Rollins, J.D., District Attorney, Suffolk County; Jennifer Greif-Green, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Boston University; Moderator: Willie Rodriguez, J.D., Boston University

5:30-6:15 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions (Choose One)
  • Is Science/STEM Neutral?
    • Obi Onochie, Ph.D., City Lab, BU
    • Alejandra Salinas, Ph.D., Math Education
    • Christopher Schmitt, Ph.D., Biology and Anthropology
    • Lenora Crabtree, Ph.D.,Science Education, Univ. of North Carolina.
    • Adam Labadorf, Ph. D., Bioinformatics /Neurology, BU
    • Theresa Rueger, Ph.D., Evolutionary Biology, BU
    • Moderator, Fadie Coleman, Ph,D.
  • Mental Wellness and Resiliency
    • Neena McConnico, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Child Witness to Violence Project, BU
    • Michelle Durham, M.D.,Psychiatry, BU Medical
    • Genevieve Preer, M.D., and Elizabeth Egan (LICSW), Pediatricians, BU Medical
    • Moderator: Martha Vibbert, Ph.D.
  • No Name, No Power: New Name, New Power:
    • Kính Tiến Vũ, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Music and Dissertation Progress Coordinator, Music Education, Boston University;
    • Carmen Noroña, LICSW, MSW, MS. Ed., IECMH-E®, Child Trauma Clinical Services and Training Lead at Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center Moderator: Rocio Chang Angulo, Psy.D.

6:20-7:00 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions (Choose One)
  • Race, Prison, Justice
    • André de Quadros, Ph.D., Music, BU College of Fine Arts and African Studies center
    • Judy Braha, Directing and Acting, College of Fine Arts
    • Moderator: Ellie Friedland, Ph. D.
  • Picture a Scientist
    • Obi Onochie, Ph.D., City Lab, BU
    • Alejandra Salinas, Ph.D., Math Education
    • Christopher Schmitt, Ph.D., Biology and Anthropology
    • Lenora Crabtree, Ph.D., Science Education, Univ. of North Carolina.
    • Adam Labadorf, Ph.D., Bioinformatics /Neurology, BU
    • Theresa Rueger, Ph.D., Evolutionary Biology, BU
    • Moderator: Melisa Osborne, Ph.D., and Barkha Shah

 

Wednesday, June 23: Facilitating Civic Engagement and Social Change

4-4:30 p.m.

Keynote

Ki Gross, Woke Kindergarten

4:30-5:20 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions (Choose One)
  • What Does it Take to Facilitate Civics Education, Civic Engagement, and Social Change?
    • Sandra McEvoy, Ph.D., Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, BU
    • Stacy Scott, Ed.D., Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, BU
    • Hardin Coleman, Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, BU Wheelock
    • Alexandra Oscar-Dávila, Executive Director, Sociedad Latina
    • Moderator: Kaylene Stevens, Ed.D., Social Studies, BU Wheelock
  • Intersectionality of Race, Disability, and Gender
    • Shannon Varga, Ph.D., Associate Director of Research and Evaluation, CERES Institute
    • Julia Bott, Principal, Ellis Mendell School
    • Leah Garner O’Neale, Ph.D., University of the West Indies
    • Moderator:  Rebekah Louis, Ed.D.,

5:25-6:15 p.m.

Subverting Silences, Absences, and Distortions: Decolonizing the Curriculum through African Studies
  • Joyce Hope Scott, Ph.D., African American Studies, BU
  • Meghan Healy-Clancy, Ph.D., Bridgewater State University
  • Debora Heard, Ph.D. Candidate, Black Studies, Univ. of Chicago
  • Robert Bellinger, Ph.D., Black Studies, Suffolk University
  • Moderated by Elsa Wiehe, Ed.D.

6:20-7:00 p.m.

Wrap up discussion: From Aspiration to Action

Symposiarch: Susan X Jane, Cultural Navigators Consulting