Reimagining the University: Race and Freedoms

Race, Freedoms, and White Supremacy: Reflections from an Outsider Within

  • Gina E. Miranda Samuels, Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice; Faculty Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago

 

Panel I: Race & Transformative Practice, Scholarship and Teaching

  • Lisa Biggs- John Atwater and Diana Nelson Assistant Professor of the Arts and Africana Studies, Brown University

  • Cathy J. Cohen- David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor, Chair of Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, University of Chicago

  • Eujin Park- Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Education, Stanford University

  • Zelda Roland-Founding Director of Yale Prison Education Initiative, Lecturer in Education Studies, Yale University

  • Tricia Rose-(Moderator) Chancellor's Professor of Africana Studies, Associate Dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University

Panel II: Practicing Freedom, Making Just Futures

  • Taji Chesimet-Beyond Prisons Student Coordinator, Fourth year student in the College, University of Chicago

  • Yanilda María González- Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School

  • Renaldo Hudson- Education Director, Illinois Prison Project

  • Alice Kim-Director, Beyond Prisons, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago

  • Tracye A. Matthews (Moderator)- Executive Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago

Refracting Freedom: Interdisciplinary Black Storytelling

Performances by:

  • Shani Crowe- 2022-23 APL/CSRPC Artist-in-Residence

  • Lauren Dotson- Fourth year student in the College, University of Chicago

  • Emily Hooper Lansana- Lecturer, Senior Director of Logan Center Community Arts

  • Josh Nkhata- Third year student in the College, University of Chicago

  • S Simmons- Assistant Instructional Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice; Co-Chair for Crown Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity Committee