Addressing an Era of Transatlantic Racial Reckoning: Imagining Anti-Racist Academic Worlds in the United Kingdom and the United States of America

This program will bring together perspectives from faculty, staff, and students in five unique higher education environments—four in the United Kingdom, one in the United States—to identify and validate experiences of BIPOC members of their respective communities. Participants will identify commonalities and differences between the institutional contexts and engage in discussions about the shared and unique aspects of navigating an academic existence for BIPOC community members.

Faculty team members:

• Richard Reddick, Ed.D., Professor, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education
• Peniel Joseph, Ph.D., Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

Student team members:

• Jayelon Evans, Applied Movement Science
• Hailey Leal, Neuroscience
• Ayotoluwafunmi Osunsade, Public Health/African and African Diaspora Studies
• Pritika Paramasivam, Neuroscience/Health and Society
• Sruthi Ramaswamy, Chemical Engineering/Plan II
• Eddie Bankston, Psychology/Philosophy
• William Cotton Hearne, Plan II/Government
• Joshua Russell, Plan II/Rhetoric and Writing
• Sai Annem, Biology
• Breigh Plat, Sociology/Plan II
• Zia Kinzy, Economics/Plan II

International partners:

• Dr. Mike Mimirinis – University of West London, United Kingdom
• Dr. Peter Claus – Pembroke College, Oxford University, United Kingdom
• Dr. Kehinde Andrews – Birmingham City University, United Kingdom
• Dr. Ali Meghji – Magdalene College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom