Leadership and Community Organizing
In this hybrid presentation we were joined by presenters Danielle M. Conway (Dean and Donald J. Farage professor of law at Penn State Dickinson Law), Mele Tupou Vaitohi (Senior Lecture at Victoria University at Wellington, New Zealand and Visiting Faculty at Penn State Dickinson Law), TaWanda Hunter Stallworth ( The Antiracist Development Institute at Penn State Dickinson Law), and Serena Hermitt (The Antiracist Development Institute at Penn State Dickinson Law). The broader series offered by the Office of Inclusive Excellence--Civic Rights, Responsibilities, and Campus Life--focuses on questions of civic engagement broadly. This session focused specifically on how leadership definitions often present challenges to community organizing by thinking about what this might mean for community involvement that stems from antiracist practices and policies.
Antiracism, Black Histories, and Institutional Practices
This panel discussion, featuring Roland Mitchell (Louisiana State University), Jerry Rosiek (University of Oregon), and Denise Taliaferro Baszile (Wayne State University), had over 70 registered participants from across the globe. The panel discussed the intersections of history, racism, and contemporary institutional practices, policies, and pedagogies. Participants who decided to attend this session thought together about what it means to be an antiracist educator and community member across spaces and places.
Antiracism and Abington: A Critical Conversation with Dr. David Stovall
Antiracism and Abington: A Critical Conversation with Dr. David Stovall Transcript
David Stovall, Ph.D. is a professor in the departments of Black Studies and Criminology, Law & Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His scholarship investigates critical questions of race, the the relationship between housing and education, and the intersection of race, place and school. In the attempt to bring theory to action, he works with community organizations and schools to address issues of equity, justice and abolishing the school/prison nexus. In this video, Dr. Stovall discusses some of the ideas that he feels are critical to becoming an antiracist educator and, more broadly, an antiracist community member who attends critically to questions of race and justice to create more accessible, welcoming campus communities.
Antiracism and Penn State Abington: A Critical Conversation with Dr. Arjun
Antiracism and Penn State Abington: A Critical Conversation with Dr. Arjun Transcript
Whitney Arjun, Ph.D. is the Director of Enrollment Management and the Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives at Penn State Abington. In this video, Dr. Arjun discusses some of the ideas that she feels are critical to enacting and maintaining antiracist norms and values at Penn State Abington by discussing what it means to have a critical, yet welcoming, campus community that focus on equity, inclusion, and belonging.