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Tuesday, May 29th 1500: NCORE Meeting the Needs of Community College Constituents 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Session Type: Special Feature Session Track: Intersectionality, Identities and Discussions Experience Level: All Levels Since their inception, community colleges have educated and welcomed diverse students with a very broad range of preparation levels and goals. Please join us as we come together to discuss how NCORE has served the interests of community college constituents for over 20* years and how we can continue toward excellence in this area. Session participants are encouraged to share ideas and recommendations of how we can further enrich the NCORE experience for community college constituents and for those in other areas of higher education. PRESENTER(S): Veronica Gerace, EdD,Faculty and Honors Program Equity Coordinator, San Diego Mesa College 1600: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing 8:00 p.m. - 9:15 p.m. Session Type: Keynote Session Track: Intersectionality, Identities and Discussions Experience Level: All Levels Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome explores the psychological and emotional impact on African Americans after enduring the horrific Middle Passage, over 300 years of slavery, followed by continued discrimination. From the beginning of American chattel slavery in the 1500’s, until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, African Americans experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual abuse. Given such history, Dr. Joy DeGruy asked the question, “Isn’t it likely those enslaved were severely traumatized? Furthermore, did the trauma and the effects of such horrific abuse end with the abolition of slavery?” Emancipation was followed by another hundred years of institutionalized subjugation through the enactment of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws, peonage and convict leasing, and domestic terrorism and lynching. Today the violations continue, and when combined with the crimes of the past, they result in further unmeasured injury. What do repeated traumas visited upon generation after generation of a people produce? What are the impacts of the ordeals associated with chattel slavery, and with the institutions that followed, on African Americans today? Dr. DeGruy addresses these questions and encourages her audience to understand African American attitudes, assumptions, and emotions through the lens of history. By doing so, she argues people will gain a greater understanding of the impact centuries of slavery and oppression has had on African Americans and on every race and culture in the country. PRESENTER(S): Joy DeGruy, MSW, MS, PhD,, Wednesday, May 30th 2001: Playing While White: Power and Privilege on/off the Field 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Session Type: Major Workshop Session Track: Race and Social Justice in Higher Education Experience Level: All Levels This session explores the ways that white athletes are profiled as intelligent leaders, as hard workers, underdogs, and role models; it examines the ways that whiteness is imagined as innocent, desirable, and redeemable. To be white in America is to continuously cash in on historically and institutionally produces privilege. It is to reap the benefits of American racism. PRESENTER(S): David J. Leonard, PhD,Professor, Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies Washington State University 2002: New Orleans at 300: History, Public Memory, and Post-Katrina Reality 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Session Type: Major Workshop Session Track: Race and Social Justice in Higher Education Experience Level: All Levels As a port city with a hybridization of Native, African, and European cultures, New Orleans has always attracted visitors titillated by its exoticism and carnivalesque atmosphere. The tourism industry has depended on black culture and labor to promote the city, while relying on black stereotypes and exclusions to perpetuate narratives of New Orleans’s racial exceptionalism. Thirteen years after Hurricane Katrina, tourism has rebounded, forming the centerpiece of citywide reforms in education, the economy, and the arts. This lecture pursues the following questions: What stories and histories are effaced in traditional tourism narratives of New Orleans? What avenues are available for communities whose histories have been effaced to research, reclaim, and reproduce those histories? How might these reclaimed histories reshape the physical and ideological landscape of a city with a grossly unequal distribution of resources and power? An analysis of non-traditional sources such as souvenirs, guide books, and tours, uncovers New Orleans tourism as a complicated site for navigating race, public memory, and public policy. The impassioned national debates over the removal of Confederate monuments demonstrate that the decisions about which history, whose culture, and what types of diversity are represented are always in process and invariably contested. As New Orleans celebrates its tercentenary, there are new calls to reassess, document, and disseminate a new public history of the city that challenges the official narratives promoted by the tourism industry. This talk will be of interest to those in the higher education community. PRESENTER(S): Lynnell L. Thomas, PhD,Associate Professor, American Studies University of Massachusetts Boston 2004: UC Berkeley's Undocu-Healing Model: A Culturally-Responsive Mental Health Support Program for Undocumented Students in the Trump Era 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Session Type: Concurrent Workshop Session Track: Global, Multicultural and Transnational issues Experience Level: Intermediate This session provides an overview of UC Berkeley's Undocu-Healing Model for mental health support for undocumented students. Housed within UCB's Undocumented Student Program, the mental health program offers a range of psychological support opportunities for undocumented and mixed-status students. In this presentation, the background and development of the Undocu-Healing model will be provided, which includes individual support, psycho-educational workshops, coordination of wrap- around health services, and cross-campus partnerships to change systemic barriers for support. Further, the presenter will address 4 key areas of cultural responsiveness: 1) Providing anonymous and confidential opportunities for emotional support; 2) Providing clinical services using racism/xenophobia- , trauma-, and social justice- informed foundations; 3) Infusing legal resources, local advocacy, and community wisdom into student services; and 4) Collaborating with non-mental health departments on campus to create and advocate for initiatives that reduce barriers for retention. This session should benefit professional staff, administrators, diversity officers, deans, campus service directors, and administrators who are concerned with the retention and well-being of undocumented students in this hostile political climate. PRESENTER(S): Diana Peña, PhD,Psychologist and Wellness Coordinator, Undocumented Student Program & Counseling and Psychological Services UC Berkeley 2005: Creating Racially Just Communities: Mapping Emory's Institutional Process for Social Change 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Session Type: Concurrent Workshop Session Track: Race and Social Justice in Higher Education Experience Level: Intermediate This session explores Emory University's experimental efforts to employ our institutional mission, values, and strengths as we develop synergistic responses to racial and social justice issues on campus. In particular, it examines the deployment of Emory's Commission on Racial and Social Justice, a macro- level process of institutional accountability, and the Emory Conversation Project, a micro-level skill- building program to train students to engage about and across their difference, as examples of synergistic interventions employed at the institutional and programmatic level. Participants will engage in an exercise designed to spark social justice innovation within the context of their own institution. This session should particularly benefit participants who are interested in developing multi-level, proactive, and complementary social justice responses uniquely designed for their institution. PRESENTER(S): Dona Yarbrough, PhD, Senior Director and Senior Associate Dean, Campus Life Emory University Ed Lee, EdD, Executive Director, Community Emory University 2006: Police Brutality, Black Lives Matter and Activism 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Session Type: Concurrent Workshop Session Track: Global, Multicultural and Transnational issues Experience Level: Novice Over the last several years there has been a surge in involvement and interest by young people around issues of racial justice. This has encouraged an environment where discussions of racial justice have hit the national public mainstream. This workshop will explore the impact that this surge has had, both positive and negative, on the current movement for Black Liberation. PRESENTER(S): Dayvon Love, B.A.,Political Organizer and Director of Public Policy, Public Policy Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle 2007: The Struggle is Too Real: Cultivating a Spirit of Resilience for the Long Haul of Diversity Leadership 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Session Type: Concurrent Workshop Session Track: Student Affairs and Affiliated Professionals Experience Level: Advanced We are exhausted. The storms seem relentless. The work never ends. How do we continue to bring our best selves to the work we do for more just and equitable communities? In this workshop,