Reckoning with Racism in Nursing: Using the Arts to Celebrate Diversity
Join the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing community on Monday, April 3 for a day of talks, activities, posters, art, poetry and digital storytelling to promote understanding, healing and solidarity.
This event, hosted in the Campus Center auditorium from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., will feature various speakers from the United States and Canada, including Lucinda Canty, associate professor and director of the Seedworks Health Equity Fund in the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing; Gayle Robinson, assistant professor in the College of Nursing at Seattle University; Claire Valederama-Wallace, associate professor in the Department of Nursing at California State University, East Bay; Favorite Iradukunda, assistant professor in the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing; Crystal Garvey, professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Durham College, Ontario, and Rebecca O. Shasanmi-Ellis, nursing instructor at the Neil Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University.
This will be a space to learn from each other and find ways to move forward to create a community where everyone belongs.
The event is sponsored by the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing through funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Registration is open and submissions of artwork or poetry presentations are also being accepted.