9th Annual Challenging Racism Conference: A Call to Action

This livestreamed webinar will provide a thought-provoking and inspiring conference on challenging racism. Designed for professional social workers and allied professionals, attendees will hear from thought leaders and gain new skills and ideas to address issues of race in their work with clients, organizations, and communities.,

The main keynote will be delivered by Heather McGhee, JD., who designs and promotes solutions to inequality in America. She is an influential voice in the media and a former NBC contributor, McGhee regularly appears on NBC’s Meet the Press and MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Deadline White House and All In.

McGhee is the chair of the board of Color Of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, and also serves on the boards of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Open Society Foundations’ US Programs and Demos. Heather is the author of the bestselling book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together.She holds a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law

Dr. Michael Yellow Bird will present the opening address. He is the Dean and Professor of Social Work at the University of Manitoba. Dean Yellow Bird’s research focuses on the effects of colonization and methods of decolonization, ancestral health, intermittent fasting, Indigenous mindfulness, neurodecolonization, mindful decolonization, and the cultural significance of Rez dogs.

He is the founder, director, and principal investigator of The Centre for Mindful Decolonization and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles, book chapters, research reports, and the co-editor of four books. Dr. Yellow Bird is an enrolled member of the MHA Nation (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) in North Dakota, USA.

Expert Panel The event will conclude with a lively panel discussion featuring both keynote speakers and Rutgers professors, Sandra Crewe, PhD, Mark Lamar, MSW, MBA, LCSW, and Chiara Sabina, PhD (moderator).

Fee: $70.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.5 Social & Cultural Competence