At the intersection of a worsening COVID pandemic and the birth of a new civil rights era, we are also experiencing a shadow mental health pandemic in our communities. Our panelist will discuss trauma and racial healing in these times.
Invited Speakers:
Kira H. Banks, PhD, is Associate Professor, Clinical Program, Department of Psychology at Saint Louis University, consultant, public speaker. Kira has been working to support individuals and groups to understand themselves, others and systems of oppression for over 20 years. She is CEO of Raising Equity and one-half of The Mouse & the Elephant.
Wizdom Powell, PhD, is Director of the Health Disparities Institute and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UConn Health. Formerly, Dr. Powell was Associate Professor at Health Behavior at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and Research Associate Professor in UNC’s Department of Social Medicine. Dr. Powell also served as Associate Director of the Center for Health Equity Research, a faculty member at UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Director of the UNC’s Men’s Health Research Lab.
L-Mani S. Viney, MEd is a national thought leader in education, mentoring, and youth advocacy. He has been an educator, on the secondary school level, for over 23 years and currently serves as Dean of Students for a major high school in the state of New Jersey. In addition, he is the past executive director of the Kappa Alpha Psi Foundation and also served as the fraternity’s National Guide Right Chairman, transforming its core program, Kappa League, into the largest youth leadership program for African American boys in America. He has spoken and advised numerous organizations such as MENTOR, the Congressional Black Caucus, National Association of College Admissions Association, the NEA, College Board, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, National Council of Black Studies and the Obama Foundation (MBK). He is a graduate of Boston College and currently holds a master’s in educational leadership from Montclair State University.
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