DEI Symposium: “Making Space for Belonging Through Racial Healing”

The Office for Health Equity and Inclusion invites you to attend the virtual DEI Symposium: 

The zoom information will be automatically emailed to those who register.

Symposium Agenda
3:00 - 3:10 pm - Welcome - Sonya Jacobs, Chief Organizational Learning Officer, U-M and Director, Faculty and Leadership Development, MM

3:10 - 4:10 pm - Keynote: On Pedagogies and Practices of Healing and Belonging: Mindfulness-Based Transformative Education as Public Health Imperative - Professor Rhonda V. Magee, University of San Francisco, School of Law 

4:10 - 4:40 pm - Healing Panel Discussion
 

Panel Moderator: Dr. David J. Brown, AVP, and Associate Dean OHEI and Associate Professor Department of Otolaryngology

Panelists:

Imam Kamau Ayubbi, Chaplain

Nicole Figueroa, DEI, Resilience and Wellbeing Nurse Leader and Adjunct Clinical Instructor in Nursing

Dr. Polly Gipson, Clinical Associate Professor, Associate Chair for DEI

Dr. Durga Singer, Valerie Castle Opipari M.D. Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and Associate Director Academic Programs, Immunology Graduate Program

4:40 - 4:55 pm - DEI Advocate Awards - Clarissa Love, Program Manager and DEI Consultant, OHEI

4:55 - 5:00 pm - Anti-Racism Oversight Committee - Dr. David Miller, President, U-M Health System, Executive Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs, U-M Medical School, Professor, Department of Urology, and Committee Co-Chair MM Anti-Racism Oversight Committee and Phyllis Blackman Co-Chair MM Anti-Racism Oversight Committee