CSUN Diversity Day 2011

Diversity Day is an annual event that grew out of faculty discussion and interest in providing students with an opportunity to hear and meet with experts in a field of a particular area. It's intended to supplement course and field work on topics that are important to prepare social workers to successfully work with families and communities in Los Angeles County and other urban settings.

The topic for Diversity Day 2011 was "Critical Race Theory"

Keynote Speaker: Larry Ortiz, MSW, Ph.D
Acting Dean of the College of Professional Studies and Professor of Social Work at CSU Dominguez Hill.
"Critical Race Theory: A Transformational Practice Model for Social Work"

Other Presenters:

- Antoinette (Toni) Navarro
LMFT, Director of Clinical Program Services, Tri-City Mental Health
"Unmasking Microaggression in Community Mental Health"

- Professor Monica Turner, MA,
CSUN Pan African Studies Department
"The Prevailing Slave Narrative: God Don't Like Ugly"

- Tracy Lachica Buenavista, Ph.D,
CSUN Department of Asian American Studies
"CRT 101: Race and the Educational Pipeline"

-Phillip Hutchison, Ph.D,
CSUN Department of Asian American Studies
"The Historical Roots of Contemporary White Privilege"

- Katie Ojeda Stewart, J.D.
Equal Justice Works Fellow/Staff Attorney at the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law
"A Family Panopticon: The Intricate Relationship Between the Prison Industrial Complex and the Child Welfare System"
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"Families Do Better Together: Alternative Solutions, Interventions, and Approaches to Family Preservation, Parental and Youth Incarceration, and Family Reunification"

-Vicangelo Bulluck
Executive Director of the Hollywood Bureau of the NAACP and Executive Producer of the NAACP Image Awards
"Storytelling: Preserving history and creating social change through the Arts and Media"

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Diversity Day
• Critical Race Theory
• Masters of Social Work
• Professional Development
• Race
• Privilege
• NAACP
• Social Justice
• Social Work
• Microaggression
• Larry Ortiz
• CSUN

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