Upcoming Events at Teachers College, Columbia University
Description
Contemplating 400 Years of Inequality with Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
Event Details
Join us for a place-based observance of the arrival of enslaved Africans to U.S. in 1619. With a focus on processing our collective past for our present healing, we will commemorate this 400th anniversary through interactive dialogue, mindful listening and contemplative practices. Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz and Angel Acosta will discuss how using a 4ft x 20ft timeline as a contemplative learning tool supports participants with deepening their understanding of entrenched racial and socio-economic inequality in the United States. With the aim of commemorating the year 1619--marking the arrival of enslaved Africans to U.S. shores--the 400 Years of Inequality National Organizing Committee has created a timeline for all of us to use to dive into our past. Dr. Sealey-Ruiz and Angel will share how combining contemplative-based practices with the exploration of the timeline has helped to guide communities in re-imagining how we can both transcend implicit bias and develop a more compassionate society.
Participants will receive:
Resources for integrating the timeline into their professional and educational settings
Instructions on how to print and share the timeline
Insights on integrating contemplative practices with critical and social justice-oriented dialogue
Facilitators
Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz is an Associate Professor of English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include racial literacy development in urban teacher education (with a specific focus on the education of Black and Latinx males), literacy practices of Black girls, and Black female college reentry students. Yolanda is founder and faculty sponsor of the Racial Literacy Roundtables Series where for ten years, national scholars, doctoral, and pre-service and in-service Master’s students, and young people facilitate informal conversations around race and other issues involving diversity and teacher education for the Teachers College / Columbia University community. She is also the co-founder of the Teachers College Civic Participation Project which concerns itself with the educational well-being of young people involved with the juvenile justice and foster care systems in New York. Yolanda and two of her s
Participants will receive:
Resources for integrating the timeline into their professional and educational settings
Instructions on how to print and share the timeline
Insights on integrating contemplative practices with critical and social justice-oriented dialogue
Facilitators
Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz is an Associate Professor of English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include racial literacy development in urban teacher education (with a specific focus on the education of Black and Latinx males), literacy practices of Black girls, and Black female college reentry students. Yolanda is founder and faculty sponsor of the Racial Literacy Roundtables Series where for ten years, national scholars, doctoral, and pre-service and in-service Master’s students, and young people facilitate informal conversations around race and other issues involving diversity and teacher education for the Teachers College / Columbia University community. She is also the co-founder of the Teachers College Civic Participation Project which concerns itself with the educational well-being of young people involved with the juvenile justice and foster care systems in New York. Yolanda and two of her s
