About this session

**NOTE: This session requires separate registration BEFORE 8:45am January 18th

Session Host: Bates College

Time: 10:45am

Format: Panel Discussion

Facilitators: Leslie Hill and Ian Khara

Speakers: Crystal Cron, Michael Kebede, Hibo Omer, and Lisa Sockabasin

Description: Racial disparities in COVID-19 deaths, a nationwide phenomenon, are nowhere more apparent than in the state of Maine: home to the widest, worst disparities in the US. The disproportionate impact of the pandemic on Black, African American, Latinx, and other BIPOC people in Maine demands further consideration of the systemic racism, anti-Black violence, and economic and gender inequalities driving these outcomes. In this panel, local advocates for racial health equity and healing justice will discuss structural barriers, and structural privileges, in Maine and beyond, with a focus on intersectional approaches to rectifying the grossly unequal vulnerabilities to premature death facing BIPOC people in the state.

**Note: This is a Bates College virtual event cross-listed in this MLK Programming. In order to participate, you will need to register through Bates College: https://bates.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUldO2hqTspHNLi7bkMrSY4QvfuMNXjeJYr