Earlier this year, Penn State Mont Alto announced its spring 2021 Race, Equity, and Action series -- a campus reading program and speakers series designed to challenge our students and campus community to confront our unconscious biases and equip our students, faculty, and staff with the vocabulary we need to step out of our comfort zones and engage in uncomfortable conversations about race and equity.
The series consists of six seminar-style discussions with students, faculty, and staff, leading up to a keynote in April from Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race.
The community is invited to join our discussion by watching the recorded campus discussions; Oluo's campus visit, which will be held via Zoom, will be free and open to the public. Look for more information accessing the talk later this spring.
This series is grant-funded by Barnes & Noble Education.
Series schedule:
3:35 to 4:25 p.m., February 1, 2021
The Fire This Time, by Jesmyn Ward (instructor: Hamman)
Facilitated by Kira Hamman, Ph.D., assistant teaching professor of mathematics, Honors Program director
Guest lecturer: Author and speaker Leslie Gray Streeter
Watch a recording of Leslie's class discussion.
6 to 6:50 p.m., February 15, 2021
The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett
Facilitated by Peter Dendle, Ph.D., professor of English
Classroom discussion link not available.
Mont Alto's Race, Equity and Action series
10:35 to 11:25 a.m., March 2, 2021
Black Woman in Green, by Gloria Brown
Facilitated by Peter Linehan, Ph.D., associate professor, Associate Forest Technology Program
Watch a recording of the classroom discussion.
Penn State Mont Alto's Race, Equity and Action series
4 to 4:50 p.m., March 16, 2021
Mindful of Race, by Ruth King
Facilitated by Angie Hissong, teaching professor, Associate Occupational Therapy Assistant Program
Penn State Mont Alto
11:15 a.m. to 12:05 p.m., March 31, 2021
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
Facilitated by Barrett Scroggs, Ph.D., assistant professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Watch a recording of the classroom discussion.
Penn State Mont Alto
KEYNOTE TALK
12:15 to 1:15 p.m., April 14, 2021
A Conversation with Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race
Watch the Zoom recording of our campus discussion with Oluo.
Sponsored by:
Barnes & Noble
Student Activity Fee
Mont Alto Campus Library
Mont Alto Honors ProgramMont Alto Occupational Therapy Assistant Program