Events

Dear White People: Showing up for Black colleagues

Webinar

Dear White People is a four-part webinar series interrogating whiteness, anti-blackness and anti-racism in education. Part 4 of the series investigates how do you show up for your Black colleagues in schools and campuses? Panelists Credit: Lumina Foundation Jasmine Haywood Strategic Impact Officer Lumina Foundation Jasmine Haywood is a strategy officer at Lumina Foundation, an […]

Teaching about racism: Assembling a teacher’s toolkit

Webinar

Join Professor Cynthia Tyson, professor of literature for children and young adults, for a virtual meetup presented by the Ohio Department of Education's Social Studies team to help understand race and racism in the United States today and help educators create tools to use in their classrooms. This session will help teachers create a toolkit of […]

Black Minds Matter: A free 5-part online course

Webinar

This five-part course addresses issues facing Black students in education by drawing parallels between the policing of Black lives and schooling of Black minds. The course will balance a discussion of issues facing Black students as well as offer research-based strategies for improving their success. Course Dates July 16, 2020 July 23, 2020 July 30, 2020 […]

Racialized Identities in Language Teaching, Learning and Research: Lessons from Black Students’ Study Abroad

3020-C Ohio Union 1739 N High Street, Columbus, OH, United States

Presented by Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition Uju Anya, Carnegie Mellon University Join Professor Uju Anya to discuss her research and her book Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil. This critical examination of the African American experience in language learning won the 2019 First Book Award from the American Association […]

Free

January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month: EDGE to Host Webinar

Webinar

In recognition of National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, EDGE will host a webinar entitled Keeping Black Girls Out of Traffick: A Discussion on Sex Trafficking and Carceral Public Systems, on Tuesday, January 17th from 11:30 am -12:30 pm. According to the U.S. Department of State, “more than 27.6 million people — adults and children — subjected to human […]