San Francisco Human Right Commission's Powerful Partnership Series: Faith, Hope and Healing

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Educators, families, and community members such as mental health professionals are tasked with meeting the needs of students and renewing their own sense of purpose in innovative ways. Culturally approrpriate approaches to equity in education can include faith, hope and healing. Join the San Francisco Human Rights Commission for a discussion on tools, supports and resources that support students' sense of empowerment and have positively impacted African Americans' lives.

This is the second of four events in our "The Power of Partnerships" series. The event will be held at the Warwick New York Hotel at 3:00pm in the Oxford Room with a free reception immediately after the panel presentation.

Participants:

Sheryl Davis (@SherylDavisSF) - Executive Director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission.

Keisha Bentley Edwards (@Keisha_Bentley) - an Assistant Professor and developmental psychologist at the Duke University School of Medicine whose work examines how race, culture and racism stress influence how the world responds to Black Americans and how this influences health and social disparities. She is also the Associate Director of Research & Director of the Health Equity Working Group at Duke University's Center on Social Equity.

Shawn Ginwright (@ShawnGinwright) - an Associate Professor of Education in the Africana Studies Department and Senior Research Associate for the Cesar Chavez Institute for Public Policy at San Francisco State University.

Nyasha Grayman-Simpson - an Associate Professor of Psychology at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, where she teaches content, methods, and applied psychology courses concerned with issues of power, collective/cultural identity, and subjective well-being. Dr. Gayman-Simpson pursues two related lines of research: (1) collective/cultural identity and subjective well-being; and (2) critical education and transformative learning.

Monique LeSarre (@MoniqueLeSarre) - Executive Director of Rafiki Coalition, which seeks to eliminate inequalities in San Francisco’s Black and marginalized communities through education, advocacy, and by providing holistic health and wellness services in a culturally affirming environment.

Junius Williams (@Rutgers_Newark) - the founder and Director of Rutgers’ Abbott Leadership Institute, which teaches parents and community members how to make public schools better by taking an active role in their schools and their children’s education.

Sub Unit

• Affiliated Groups

Chair

• Malik S. Henfield, University of San Francisco

Participants

• Sheryl Evans Davis, San Francisco Human Rights Commission

• Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards, Duke University

• Shawn A. Ginwright, San Francisco State University

• Nyasha Grayman-Simpson, Goucher College

• Monique LeSarre, PsyD, California Institute of Integral Studies

• Junius W. Williams, Esq, Abbott Leadership Institute