Jennifer Hirsch, Professor and Deputy Chair for Doctoral Studies, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health; Co-Director, Columbia Population Research Center; Columbia University Shamus Khan, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Columbia University with respondents: Abdul El-Sayed, MD, DPhil, physician, epidemiologist, public health expert, and progressive activist Kamaria B. Porter, Ph.D. Candidate, Center for the Study … Read more
Robin Wall Kimmerer, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, founder of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment The Native American Studies program at the University of Michigan requests sponsorship for the sixth annual Berkhofer Lecture on Native American Studies to be given virtually by Robin Kimmerer. The past five Berkhofer Lectures, … Read more
Erin Cech, Associate Professor, Departments of Sociology and Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy), University of Michigan Megan Killian, Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Michigan Harmony Reppond, Associate Professor of Social Psychology, University of Michigan-Dearborn Probing the ominous side of career advice to “follow your passion,” this data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us … Read more
JENNIFER DOMINIQUE JONES (author of Ambivalent Affinities) Assistant Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies AVA PURKISS Assistant Professor of American Culture, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Women’s and Gender Studies SARA MCCLELLAND Associate Professor of Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies In this interdisciplinary historical study, Jennifer Dominique Jones reveals the underexamined origins of … Read more
TaNefer L. Camara, IBCLC, maternal health & equity strategist and healer Linda Jones, Executive Director and co-founder of Black Women Birthing Justice (BWBJ) Dr. Sayida Peprah-Wilson, licensed clinical psychologist and birth doula, Founder and Executive Director of Diversity Uplifts, Inc. Alexus Roane, MPH, Graduate Fellow for Research at IRWG; PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of … Read more