Agenda

Introductions: 

Alta Mauro, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Inclusion & Belonging, Harvard College

Moderator: 

Ken Darrie Thomas, Ph.D., Assistant Dean of Harvard College, Lecturer in Environmental Science and Public Policy, Lecturer in Environmental Science and Engineering

Panelists: 

Bridgette King, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor of Political Science, University of Kentucky

Marquita Smith, Ph.D., Professor of Journalism + Associate Dean of the School of Journalism, University of Mississippi

Wylin D. Wilson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke Divinity School

Introductions: 

Habiba Braimah Ph.D., Senior Director, Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations

Keynote Speaker: 

Dr. Maya Trotz, Ph.D., Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida

Panel A: Incarceration (Event Hall)

Respondent: Bridgette King, Ph.D.

• Zikora Akanegbu (Cornell University): Double Standards Beyond the Bars: The Gendered Divide in Societal Expectations of Women's and Men's Post-Incarceration Re-entry 

• Balqies Mohamed (Harvard College): Beyond the Box: Inclusion at Harvard for Students and Employees with Criminal Records

• Chloie Plumber (Barnard College): “Tell Them it is Better to Die like a Man than Live like a Dog:” The Right to the City Within the Attica Prison Uprising

• Jama Willis (Harvard College): Decriminalizing ‘Buggery’ Laws in the Postcolonial Anglophone Caribbean: A Socio-Legal Comparative Analysis of Anti-Homosexual Penal Codes in Jamaica and Barbados

Panel B: U.S. BIPOC Experiences (Community Hall)

Respondent: Kemeyawi Q. Wahpepah, Doctoral Candidate in Education at Harvard University

• Byron Gonzalez (Harvard College): Pathways of Influence: Moderators and Mediators of the Association Between Structural Xenophobia and Externalizing Symptoms Among Latine Youth

• Alli Alvarez (University of Richmond): Hartshorn Memorial College Shaping Black Women through Education, Purity, and Faith 1883-1932 

• Humnah Poonawalla (Princeton University): A Historical Lens:   Examining Educational and Environmental Inequities Across New Jersey in Collaboration with Fatima Zohra Poonawalla, the Latino Action Network Foundation, & Salvation and Social Justice

• Allister Dias (University of Nevada, Las Vegas): Disability Status and Food Insecurity Among Senior Adults in Southern Nevada

Panel C: Student Activism & Education (Event Hall)

Respondent: Marquita Smith, Ph.D.

• Elisabet Ortiz & Brandon Scarlett (Emory University): Debt by Design: How Higher Education Financing Reshapes Economic Mobility

• Michael Waxman (Harvard College): Beyond Diversity: Theorizing and Assessing Multicultural Thriving at Harvard College

• Julia García Galindo (Harvard College): “My calling, my passion, my vocation”: Opting Out of Leadership amongst Puerto Rican Teachers

• Queen Carrasco (CUNY City College): The Education of Digital Activists

Panel D: International Perspectives (Community Hall)

Respondent: Maya Trotz, Ph.D.

• Shelsie Jean Laurent (Harvard College): Land, Labor, and Loss: The Environmental Impact of French Monoculture in Saint-Domingue

• Nayoon Kim (Georgetown): Paranoid Nationalism & Resilient Hope: The LGBTQ+ Community's  Struggle for visibility in South Korea amid COVID-19

• Cody Chou & Coby Duran-Garcia (Harvard College): ALMA: Apoyo Local para Mujeres con Analisis: A Platform for Early Diagnosis and Imporved Access to Screening and Treatment in Underserrved Areas for Breast Cancer 

Panel E: Health & Gender (Event Hall)

Respondent: Wylin Wilson, Ph.D.

• Izumi Vázquez (Harvard College): Mobile-izing Care: The Mobile Health Clinic as Social Movement

• Anoushka Chander (Harvard College): Labor Pains and Payments: The Long March to Reparations for Reproductive Injustice

• Rysha Sultania (Barnard): The Kulaafit Method: How can Culturally Tailored Fitness improve Public Health

• Tanya Syed (George Washington University): Sensationalism Over Sensitivity: An Analysis of Media Portrayals of Yazidi Women’s Experiences during the 2014 Genocide

Panel F: Community-Based Research (Community Hall)

Respondent: Varsha Ghosh, Ph.D.

• Sophie Schocket (Emory University): Labor Pains and Payments: The Long March to Reparations for Reproductive Injustice

• Maria Doulis & Viraj Dcunha (Cornell University): Assessing the Impacts of Community Based Theater: An Evaluation Approach 

• Vaishali Garg (NYU Abu Dhabi): “It’s never enough”: International Migration, Monitoring Strategies, and Economic Impact- A Mixed Methods Study

• Erick Portillo (University of California, Los Angeles): "The Socioemotional and Equital Implications of the 2007 Financial Crisis on Latine Families in the San Fernando Valley