45.021 - Division A Vice-Presidential Session: A Call for Bold Leadership: Disrupting Inequities that Cause and Stem from Trauma in our Schools and Communities

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

We are living in times where our educational institutions, both K-12 and higher education, and communities are increasingly experiencing traumas such as mass deportations, detainment, and separation from families, teen suicide stemming from LGBTQ+ discrimination and gender violence, police shootings and an inequitable justice system, displacement and homelessness from natural disasters, race-based trauma, and gun violence in schools. Trauma intersects with history, culture, race, gender, ability, sexuality, language, and location and disproportionately affects those who are most marginalized. In this interactive session, we will have a panel discussion followed by small group critical conversations about ways we can disrupt inequities causing and stemming from trauma in our K-12 schools, communities and in higher education so that we can begin to heal by building critical systems of support that are community-centered and justice-oriented.

Sub Unit

• Division A - Administration

Chair

• Dana Thompson Dorsey, University of Pittsburgh

Participants

• Lisa Bass, North Carolina State University

• Cheryl E. Matias, University of Colorado - Denver

• Susan C. Faircloth, Colorado State University

• Rebeca Burciaga, San José State University

• Decoteau J. Irby, University of Illinois at Chicago

Moderator

• Lolita A. Tabron, University of Denver