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Eradicating Anti-Black Racism in the DMV Conference


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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 


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