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AUGUST 5-7, 2020 PUBLICTHEOLOGYRACIALJUSTICE.ORG/LEADERSHIPACADEMY PROGRAM DAY 1 // WEDNESDAY // AUG 5 10:30AM WELCOME/FRAMING 11:00-11:30AM CULTURAL EXPRESSION & MORNING CENTERING 12:00PM COLLABORATIVE FELLOWS PRESENTATIONS 2:30-3:00PM CULTURAL EXPRESSION & CLOSING CENTERING 6:00 PM KEYNOTE WITH HARRIET A. WASHINGTON FOLLOWED BY LIVE Q&A WITH CHRISTOPHE RINGER 7:30-8:00PM KEYNOTE PROCESSING SALON PROGRAM DAY 2 // THURSDAY // AUG 6 10:00AM SCHOLARS ROUNDTABLE | HUMANITARIAN IMPLICATIONS OF COVID-19 11:00-11:30AM PROCESSING SALON | SCHOLARS ROUNDTABLE 11:30-12:00PM CULTURAL EXPRESSION & OPENING CENTERING 12:00PM PANEL | INTERFAITH ENGAGEMENT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE 1:00-1:30PM PROCESSING SALON | INTERFAITH PANEL 2:30PM PANEL | INTERGENERATIONAL/MULTIGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE 3:30-4:00PM PROCESSING SALON | INTERGENERATIONAL PANEL 4:00-4:30PM CULTURAL EXPRESSION & CLOSING CENTERING 6:00PM PINNING CEREMONY FOR COHORT II AND CHARGE PROGRAM DAY 3 // FRIDAY // AUG 7 10:00AM SCHOLARS ROUNDTABLE | COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND PROPHETIC RESPONSE 11:00-11:30AM PROCESSING SALON | SCHOLARS ROUNDTABLE II 11:30-12:00PM CULTURAL EXPRESSION & OPENING CENTERING 12:00PM PANEL | RACIAL JUSTICE, POLITICS AND PRIORITIES PANEL | "STOLEN BREATHS": RACISM IN MEDICAL FIELDS 1:00-1:30PM CONCURRENT PROCESSING SALONS RACIAL JUSTICE & MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS PANEL 2:00PM AFTER PANEL | ETHICS THAT MATTER PARTY 3:00-3:30PM 6:00PM PROCESSING SALON | ETHICS PANEL 3:30-4:00PM CULTURAL EXPRESSION & CLOSING CENTERING 4:00PM CLOSING KEYNOTE WITH JUDGE WENDELL GRIFFEN PUBLIC THEOLOGY AND AUGUST 5-7, 2020 RACIAL JUSTICE // COLLABORATIVE WELCOME WELCOME On behalf of the faculty, staff, and students of Vanderbilt Divinity School, Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Provost Susan Wente of Vanderbilt University, I am excited and pleased to welcome you to the Leadership Academy of the Vanderbilt Divinity School Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative. Our theme, “Medical Apartheid Revisited: Pandemic, Politics, and Priorities” explores the ethical implications of the coronavirus pandemic for racialized minorities who are experiencing disproportionately higher rates of death from this pandemic. We want to tease through how scholars, clergy, organizers, activists, students, and concerned citizens can build ethical solutions that involve empathy, transparency, expertise, and commitment. Here at Vanderbilt Divinity School, we see these issues as not only social issues, but also theological, moral, and spiritual issues that we must address through the lens of faith. We invite you to join as we explore the importance of our theme in relation to your local community so that we can make our voices heard on the local and national levels. We will do so by combining spiritual, intellectual, and strategic growth with a sense of social justice and the formation of a new generation of justice-seekers. I welcome you in this spirit as we gather over these three days of themed panels, an infusion of the arts, time for spiritual reflection, and powerful keynotes to look to the past, examine the present, and build for the future. These are exciting and vexing times to take up our common work to fight for a vibrant democracy! Emilie M. Townes Director, Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative Dean and E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society Vanderbilt University Divinity School PUBLIC THEOLOGY AND // FEATURED SPEAKERS RACIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE 0 6 FEATURED SPEAKER HARRIET A. WASHINGTON As a medical ethicist, Harriet Washington has a unique and courageous voice and deconstructs the politics around medical issues. In addition to giving an abundance of historically accurate information on ‘scientific racism’, she paints a powerful and disturbing portrait of medicine, race, sex, and the abuse of power by telling individual human stories. Washington also makes the case for broader political consciousness of science and technology, challenging audiences to see the world differently and challenge established paradigms in the history of medicine. Harriet Washington is an award-winning medical writer and editor, and the author of the best-selling book, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. In her work, she focuses mainly upon bioethics, history of medicine, African American health issues and the intersection of medicine, ethics and culture. Medical Apartheid, the first social history of medical research with African Americans, was chosen as one of Publishers’ Weekly Best Books of 2006. The book also won the National Book Critics Circle Nonfiction Award, a PEN award, 2007 Gustavus Myers Award, and Nonfiction Award of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. It has been praised in periodicals from the Washington Post and Newsweek to Psychiatric Services, the Economist, Social History of Medicine and the Times of London and it has been excerpted in the New York Academy of Sciences’ Update. Experts have praised its scholarship, accuracy and insights. Medical Apartheid was the #1 best-seller in medical ethics on Amazon. In her latest book, Infectious Madness, Washington looks at the connection between germs and mental illness, revealing that schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Alzheimer's, and anorexia also may be caused by bacteria, parasites, or viruses. Weaving together cutting-edge research and case studies, Washington demonstrates how strep throat can trigger rapid-onset OCD in a formerly healthy teen and how contact with cat litter elevates the risk of schizophrenia. Infectious Madness was released in October 2015. PUBLIC THEOLOGY AND // FEATURED SPEAKERS RACIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE 0 7 FEATURED SPEAKER HARRIET A. WASHINGTON Washington wrote Medical Apartheid while she was a Research Fellow in Ethics at Harvard Medical School. She has worked as a Page One editor for USA Today, as a science editor for metropolitan dailies and several national magazines, and her award-winning medical writing. Her work has appeared in Health, Emerge and Psychology Today, as well as such academic publications as the Harvard Public Health Review, the Harvard AIDS Review, Nature, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The American Journal of Public Health and the New England Journal of Medicine. Her awards include the Congressional Black Caucus Beacon of Light Award, two awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and a Unity Award from Emerge. She is the founding Editor of The Harvard Journal of Minority Public Health and has presented her work at universities in the U.S. and abroad. In her book, Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself, Washington takes an in depth, eye-opening look at the 40,000+ patents on human genes and their harmful, even lethal, consequences on public health. Her other books include, Parkinson’s Disease, a monograph published by Harvard Health Publications, Living Healthy with Hepatitis C and she is co-author of Health and Healing for African Americans. Ms. Washington has taught at venues that include New School University, SUNY, the Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Rochester, Harvard School of Public Health and Tuskegee University. She has sat on the boards of many organizations, including The Young Women’s Christian Association, the School Health Advisory Board of the Monroe County Department of Health and the Journal of the National Medical Association, to name a few. Ms. Washington has also worked as a laboratory technician, as a medical social worker, as the manager of a poison-control center/suicide hotline, and has performed as an oboist and as a classical-music announcer for WXXI-FM, a PBS affiliate in Rochester, N.Y. She lives in New York City with her husband Ron DeBose. PUBLIC THEOLOGY AND // FEATURED SPEAKERS RACIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE 0 8 FEATURED SPEAKER JUDGE WENDELL GRIFFEN CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR THE 5TH DIVISION SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS Wendell Griffen is Circuit Judge for the 5th Division in the Sixth Judicial District of Arkansas, Pastor of New Millennium Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, and CEO of Griffen Strategic Consulting. He is a native of Delight (Pike County), Arkansas, and a graduate of the University of Arkansas (B.A., Political Science, ‘73) and the University of Arkansas School of Law (J.D. ‘79). Judge Griffen is a U.S. Army veteran, a 1975 graduate of the Defense Race Relations Institute (now the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute), and was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service in work concerning race relations and equal opportunity. His writings about faith, social justice, public policy, cultural competency and inclusion can be found on his blogs: ‘Wendell Griffen on Cultural Competency’ and ‘Justice Is a Verb!’ PUBLIC THEOLOGY AND // CENTERING GUIDES RACIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE 0 9 CENTERING GUIDES MORNING + EVENING CENTERING TO BEGIN AND END OUR DAYS TOGETHER MAUREEN GERALD Maureen Gerald is the Executive Pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church; Spiritual Director at Princeton Theological Seminary; U.S. Congressional Interfaith Director representing New Jersey’s 12th district; and business owner of Momentum, Counseling, Coaching, & Consulting LLC. Her expertise in training, teaching, and preaching personal and organizational growth solutions to multicultural communities has led her across the world. Her life’s work in getting people to move forward meets at the intersections of theology, social science and justice work.