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		6th annual Race, Poverty & Social Justice Conference Schedule
		January 24 & 25, 2020
		University of Lynchburg
		Friday, January 24, 2020
		TIME		NAME	SPEAKER	TRACK	ROOM	SESSION TYPE
		5:00 PM - 6:00 PM		Social Justice in Central Virginia Community Roundtable - Invitation Only Event	Many Voices-One Community	Organizing and Advocacy	East Room, Burton Dining Hall, Drysdale Student Center	Pre-Conference Session
		6:30 PM - 7:00 PM		Networking and Conversation	Sponsored by the YWCA of Central Virginia		Ballroom, Hall Campus Center	Reception
		7:00 PM - 8:30 PM		Perspectives - Uprising: Organizing Justice on Campus and in the Community		Organizing and Advocacy	Ballroom, Hall Campus Center	Panel Discussion
		Saturday, January 25, 2020
		8:00 AM - 3:00 PM		Registration and Continental Breakfast			Schewel Hall Lobby
		8:30 AM - 9:25 AM		Welcome and Opening	Leslie King, Conference Chair		Sydnor Performance Hall
				Honoring of Indeginous People & Land	Dan Harrison
				Morning Speaker	Dr. Janice Underwood Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for the Commonwealth of Virginia
				Closing
		9:30 AM - 10:30 AM		Using the Media Tools at Your Fingertips for Advocacy	Bill Noel	Organizing and Advocacy	208, Schewel Hall	Morning Session I
		9:30 AM - 10:30 AM		Redlining in Lynchburg	John Abell, PhD	Research and Policy	214, Schewel Hall	Morning Session I
		9:30 AM - 10:30 AM		Power, Equity & Place	Jereann King	Organizing and Advocacy	215, Schewel Hall	Morning Session I
		9:30 AM - 10:30 AM		The New Mona Lisa: The Power of Representation in Public Art	Michelline Hall	Arts, Culture & Media	217, Schewel Hall	Morning Session I
		9:30 AM - 10:30 AM		El Derecho de Vivir en Paz: Chile and the Rise of a Latin American Spring	Vicente Gonzalez	Organizing and Advocacy	231, Schewel Hall	Morning Session I
		10:30 AM - 10:45 AM		Break	Break	Break	Break	Break
		10:45 AM - 11:45 AM		Contested Masculinities in Context	Julio Rodriguez, PhD	Research and Policy	231, Schewel Hall	Morning Session II
		10:45 AM - 11:45 AM		Helping White People Talk about Racism	Paul Boothby	Organizing and Advocacy	217, Schewel Hall	Morning Session II
		10:45 AM - 11:45 AM		Redefining the Black Male Role Model in Education and Mentorship	Derek Bell	Research and Policy	208, Schewel Hall	Morning Session II
		10:45 AM - 11:45 AM		Dismantling Racist Systems in Virginia: The First 25 Years of Virginia Organizing	Joe Szakos	Organizing and Advocacy	215, Schewel Hall	Morning Session II
		10:45 AM - 11:45 AM		Hip-Hop Pedagogy: The Inescapability of Blackness	James Watkins	Arts, Culture & Media	214, Schewel Hall
		12:00 PM - 1:15 PM		Keynote Luncheon	Ruby Sales nationally-recognized human-rights activist, public theologian, and social critic		Ballroom, Hall Campus Center	Keynote Luncheon
		1:15 PM - 1:30 PM		Break	Break	Break	Break	Break
		1:30 PM - 2:30 PM		Social Justice in Lynchburg City Schools: How issues of Race, Migration, and Queerness are Bringing Communities Together	Vicente Gonzalez ,Tyler Milton, Reason Chandler	Organizing and Advocacy	217, Schewel Hall	Afternoon Session I
		1:30 PM - 2:30 PM		Social Justice and Climate Resilience: What's the Connection?	Laura Henry-Stone, PhD Karin Warren, PhD	Research and Policy	208, Schewel Hall	Afternoon Session I
		1:30 PM - 2:30 PM		Singing the Nation into Being: The ‘Black National Anthem’ and the Politics of Performance	Sonya Donaldson, PhD	Arts, Culture & Media	214, Schewel Hall	Afternoon Session I
		1:30 PM - 2:30 PM		Optimizing Outcomes for Minority Students with Disabilities	Kim Lemburg	Organizing and Advocacy	215, Schewel Hall	Afternoon Session I
		2:30 PM - 2:45 PM		Break	Break	Break	Break	Break
		2:45 PM - 3:45 PM		Oral History, Black Teachers, and the Meaning of Activism	Derrick Alridge, PhD, Alexis Johnson, Kristan McCullum, Hunter Holt & Danielle Wingfield-Smith, PhD	Research & Policy	208, Schewel Hall	Afternoon Session II
		2:45 PM - 3:45 PM		Supporting Queer People of Color	Quan McLaurin	Organizing and Advocacy	217, Schewel Hall	Afternoon Session II
		2:45 PM - 3:45 PM		Leveraging Your Privilege	Liz Dobson, Nakesha Moore	Organizing and Advocacy	215, Schewel Hall	Afternoon Session II
		2:45 PM - 3:45 PM		An Empathy Framework for Social Justice	Vance, Terra	Research & Policy	231, Schewel Hall	Afternoon Session II
		4:00 PM - 4:30 PM		Closing			Sydnor Performance Hall	Closing Session