Nov 5, 20191 min
Dr Howard Stevenson
Human Development & Quantitative Methods Division
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
DATE: November 21
TIME: 12:15-1:45PM
ROOM: 3E34 A&B, SSW Bldg. 525 W. Redwood Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
Title: "Can We Get A Witness? Racial Literacy for Dehumanization Blindness in Schools and Communities.”
Biography
Dr. Howard Stevenson is the Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education, Professor of Africana Studies, in the Human Development & Quantitative Methods Division of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Executive Director of the Racial Empowerment Collaborative at Penn, designed to promote racial literacy in education, health, community and justice institutions. Backed by a 12 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and based at REC, Howard also directs Forward Promise, a national philanthropic office that promotes a culture of health for boys and young men of color, to help them heal from the trauma of historical and present-day dehumanization, discrimination and colonization.
**Pizza and refreshments will be provided** Please RSVP by Monday, November 18 to tbrown@ssw.umaryland.edu