#HowWeHeal from Racism
Tuesday, January 19- Tuesday19 Jan3:00 PM(GMT)Welcome
David LozanoExecutive Artistic DirectorCara Mía TheatreJoli Angel RobinsonErrika Flood-Moultrie
- Tuesday19 Jan3:10 PM(GMT)Fireside Chat and Q&A with Nikole-Hannah JonesNikole-Hannah JonesJerry HawkinsExecutive DirectorDallas Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation
- Tuesday19 Jan4:15 PM(GMT)Racial Healing PracticeDana HarperSinger and Wellness Practitioner
- Tuesday19 Jan4:30 PM(GMT)Break
- Tuesday19 Jan5:00 PM(GMT)Empowering BIPOC Narratives and Organizations
McMillan-Herod will share her story and experience in being a BIPOC artist and running a BIPOC arts organization; detailing the challenges and strengths of both.Anyikah McMillan-HerodCo-Founder/Executive Director @ Soul Rep Theatre CompanyYouth, Race and OrganizingYouth, Race and Organizing will demonstrate how Young Leaders, Strong City (YLSC) equips a network of students, educators, and their adult allies with tools to analyze, advocate, and dismantle systemic racism and inequities in themselves, their schools and communities through student organizing.
Caazena HunterThe IF InstituteOur Words Are MedicineIn this session participants will dive into understanding the power attached to listening respectfully, responsibly, and sharing in a way that is healing. We will learn what it truly means to be heard and the medicine (the healing aspects) that holds. I will utilize knowledge and lessons utilized through the La Siembra project I curate with Cara Mia Theater Co.
Jodi Voice YellowfishChair @ MMIW Texas
- Tuesday19 Jan5:45 PM(GMT)Break
- Tuesday19 Jan6:00 PM(GMT)Structural Racism in the Medicines System
From drug development to drug affordability, the medicines system affects who lives and who dies. While the healthcare system gets a lot of public scrutiny and accountability, the medicines system does not. Priti Krishtel will explain how in the midst of a global pandemic that is disproportionately costing Black and Brown lives, it is critical that we deepen our collective understanding about the medicines system and the structural racism that is embedded within it.
Priti KrishtelCo-Founder and Co-Executive DirectorI-MAKJerry HawkinsExecutive DirectorDallas Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation
- Tuesday19 Jan6:50 PM(GMT)Break
- Tuesday19 Jan7:00 PM(GMT)Language Matters: Storytelling for Racial Healing
In the midst of a global pandemic that has disproportionately affected communities of color and a national reckoning with structural racism, there is an urgent need for anti-racist storytelling and communications. This online training session will examine commonly used language and provide strategies to create narrative change and healing through a racial equity lens.
Stephanie DrenkaCommunications Director @ Dallas Truth, Racial Healing & TransformationOur Duty and the State of our "Criminal Legal System"After adopting the 13th Amendment. States across America grappled with slavery and incarceration. Southern States, Texas in particular, began it's own trend of incarceration prioritizing racism and free labor over justice and humanity. The outcome was the birth of a Criminal Legal System, often void of Justice....... Let's talk!
Richard MilesMiles of FreedomRichardson ISD: Our Journey Towards Racial Equity and HealingParticipants will get an introduction to how RISD defines Racial Equity and learn the intentional steps RISD is taking to create racially equitable outcomes and Healing for ALL students.
- Tuesday19 Jan8:00 PM(GMT)Damion Thomas and Q&ADamion ThomasMuseum Curator of SportsSmithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureJerry HawkinsExecutive DirectorDallas Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation
- Tuesday19 Jan8:45 PM(GMT)A New Community Vision for DallasJerry HawkinsExecutive DirectorDallas Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation