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