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Racial Justice Research and Practice Dialogues

Please join us for our first event on
October 14th, 2020
3:00 pm

Registration is not required;
visit bit.ly/Oct14event to join the discussion.


The Office for Academic Affairs through its Office for the Advancement of Research, in collaboration with a faculty leadership committee representing Africana Studies (Jessica Gordon-Nembhard) Latinx Studies (José Luis Morín) and SEEK (Monika Son), is sponsoring a year-long community dialogue on racial justice research and scholarship across the disciplines. We invite faculty, students, and the broader community to join us for four panel discussions that will serve as the lead-in to a more in-depth, hands-on approach to changing the way we teach and learn – specifically, by facilitating meaningful engagement with scholarship by and about people of color, and promoting the incorporation of research on structural inequities into curriculum college-wide. Over the course of the 2020-2021 academic year, these events will cover multi-dimensional topics including:

• • racial disparities in health and mental health and trauma-informed pedagogy;
• • the erasure of people of color from the historical narrative;
• • economic inequality; and
• • racism and discrimination in the criminal legal system.

Each panel will be facilitated by a John Jay faculty member who will also lead a follow-up workshop intended to engage participants more deeply in the subject matter and promote best practices for cultivating racial justice in our classrooms and around the college.

Our first panel will take place on October 14, 2020, on the topic of racial disparities in health and mental health, and the role of trauma-informed pedagogy for promoting racial justice in higher education. Panelists Dr. Michelle Chatman (University of the District of Columbia) and Dr. Lenwood Hayman (Morgan State University), will join John Jay's own Dr. Monika Son for a discussion of the challenges scholars of color face in pursuing research and scholarship in the context of an academic culture that has historically been structured to reproduce power and privilege.

We are excited to present a series that will support the John Jay community’s commitment to racial justice in research and educational practice, and invite those who need more skills in transforming the curriculum to attend and work with us.