Agenda – Spring ’12 Symposium

SYMPOSIUM AGENDA

Thursday, March 8, 2012 – 105 Law Building, UC Berkeley School of Law

12:30 p.m. – Welcome and Symposium Overview

12:40 p.m. – Performances

  • Sojari Bradley – Song/Spoken Word
  • Jazz Hudson – Spoken Wordrformances

12:45 p.m. – Introduction to and Screening of NO!  The Rape Documentary
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Producer, Writer, Director, NO!  The Rape Documentary

2:15 p.m. – Panel Discussion
What is Gendered Violence against African American Girls and Young Women? – Part One
Moderator:  Sonja Tonnesen ‘13, 2012 Henderson Center Coblentz Fellow

  • Jazz Hudson, Poet Mentor, Spoken Work Artist, Artistic Educator
  • Nikki Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Hillary Potter, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Andrea Ritchie, Attorney at Law

5:00 p.m. – Performances & Reception      

  • Sojari Bradley – Song/Spoken Word    
  • Jazz Hudson – Spoken Word


Friday, March 9, 2012 – 105 Law Building, UC Berkeley School of Law

8:30 a.m. – Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m. – Welcome and Symposium Overview

  • Performance by Tiara Phalon

  • 9:15 a.m. – Panel Discussion
    What is Gendered Violence against African American Girls and Young Women? – Part Two
    Moderator:  Carol J. Silverman, Senior Research Associate, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice

    • Starla Gay, Eligibility Technician, Alameda County Social Services Agency
    • Domonique Jones
    • George Lakoff, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
    • Priscilla Ocen, Critical Race Studies Law Fellow, UCLA School of Law
    • Julia Oparah (formerly Julia Sudbury), Professor and Department Head, Ethnic Studies, Mills College
    • Damien Schnyder, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Scripps: The Women’s College

    • 12:30 p.m. – Lunch Discussion: Breaking Bread, Breaking Silence:  A conversation Among All of Us
    Facilitator: Rekia Jibrin, Graduate Research Assistant, Henderson Center

    • Aïdah Aliyah Rasheed, Visual Artist and Educator
    • Andrea Ritchie, Attorney at Law
    • Sasir
    • Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Producer, Writer, Director, NO!  The Rape Documentary
    • Quentin Walcott, Director, CONNECT Training Institute and the Community Empowerment Program (New York)

    1:45 p.m. – Panel Discussion: Let’s Talk to People We Don’t Normally Talk To, and Say the Things We Don’t Normally Say
    Facilitator:  Wilda L. White, Executive Director, Henderson Center

    • Victoria Alexander, M.D., M.P.H., Chair, Community Advisory Board, Berkeley Black Infant Health Program
    • Alisa Bierria, Founder, Communities against Rape and Abuse, Collective Member, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
    • John L. Burris, Esq., Law Offices of John L. Burris
    • Pendarvis Hardshaw, Journalist and Educator
    • Joshua Merchant, Writer and Educator
    • Alvin Starks, Program Officer for Racial Equity at W.K. Kellogg Foundation
    • Quentin Walcott, Director, CONNECT Training Institute and the Community Empowerment Program (New York)
    • Connie Wun, Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education 

    5:00 p.m. – Closing

    • Performance by Joshua Merchant