CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
DAY ONE
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Participants Arrive
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Conference Dinner (By Invitation)
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Keynote Address
Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Duke University
DAY TWO
8:00am - 9:00am Breakfast and Registration
9:00am- 10:30am Panel One: Policy and Systemic Change
Moderator:
Professor Alana Hackshaw, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland College Park
Speakers:
Dr. Andrea Headley, Associate Professor and Faculty Director, Evidence for Justice Lab, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Professor Rashawn Ray, Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland College Park, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Professor Andre M. Perry Senior fellow, Director, Center for Community Uplift, Brookings Institution. Professor of practice of economics, Washington University in St. Louis.
10:30am - 10:45am Coffee Break
10:45am - 12:15pm Roundtable One
Moderator:
Dr. Craig Fryer, Associate Professor, Behavioral and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Maryland College Park
Speakers:
Dr. Devlon N. Jackson, Assistant Research Professor, Behavioral and Community Health
University of Maryland College Park
Dr. Nicholas Smith, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, University of Maryland College Park
Dr. Francesca Weaks, Faculty Research and Health Equity Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Maryland College Park
Dr. Rossina Zamora Liu, Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership, College of Education, University of Maryland College Park
12:15pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:30pm Panel Two: The Role of Higher Education
Moderator:
Dean Kimberly A. Griffin, College of Education, University of Maryland College Park
Speakers:
Professor Sharon Fries-Britt, Distinguished University Professor, College of Education, University of Maryland College Park
Professor Odis Johnson, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Executive Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, Director, Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies, Johns Hopkins University
Professor Marcus Hunter, Professor, Department of African American Studies; Professor, Department of Sociology; Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences, UCLA
2.30pm - 2:45pm Coffee Break
2:45pm - 4:15pm Roundtable Two
Moderator:
Professor John Drabinski, Department of African American and Africana Studies and Department of English, University of Maryland College Park
Speakers:
Dr Periloux Peay, Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies, University of Maryland College Park
Dr. Andrew Parayil Boge, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park
Dr. Reka Barton, Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership, University of Maryland College Park
Dr. Keisha Allen, Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership, University of Maryland College Park
4:15pm - 4:30pm Closing Remarks