Event Description
Learn how careers in social work are making a difference in society! You're invited to join the Mandel School for our 2023 Impact Talk series—four excellent opportunities to be inspired by our faculty and their specializations.
The event will be held in Noble Commons and via livestream, and be recorded for viewing on the Mandel School's YouTube channel.
Current Mandel School students can receive one PD hour for each Impact Talk they attend. One CEU will be offered for everyone else, pending application approval.
Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees, and prizes will be raffled off to those attending online and in-person (two 10-inch Samsung Galaxy tablets and four bluetooth wireless earbuds).
America the Beautiful and Violent: The Response of Social Work to Anti-Black Racism
Dexter Voisin
Dean
America the Beautiful and Violent: The Response of Social Work to Anti-Black Racism will illuminate how major social policy and practice in the U.S. has created Black racialized poverty and trauma, resulting in a higher disease burden and social disadvantage born by Black Americans. It will highlight important steps the social work profession can adopt to promote an anti-Black racist approach aimed at furthering racial and social equality.
Dexter Voisin is a licensed clinician with more than 30 years of research, teaching and administrative experience. He earned his PhD from Columbia University and is recognized among the top two percent of scientists in the world, and among the top most-cited Black scholars in social work at research-intensive universities. He has authored more than 170 peer-reviewed publications and generated over 11 million dollars in external funding, with research findings informing health policy in the State of Illinois. He is frequently called upon to be a contributor to the national and international media.
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