Girls Like Us Program: Speaker Series with Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler

1135 Broadway,Boulder CO 80302

15 March, 2023

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When: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023, 4:00pm to 6:00pm Light refreshments will be available at 3:30pm Where: The Renée Crown Wellness Institute, Aspen Conference Room 1135 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80302 Contact us: [email protected] The Renée Crown Wellness Institute’s Girls Like Us Program is excited and honored to announce the offering of a Speaker Series for the 22-23 academic year. We are looking forward to inviting both local and national mindfulness leaders to engage with our communities. Please join our second session of the 2023 Girls Like Us Speaker Series with featured speaker Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, in conversation around: Education, Empowerment, & Agency: An interactive conversation around the mental health of Black Girls and Women with a focus on evidence-based research. Drawing from her latest book, Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women, Dr. Burnett-Zeigler will discuss the integration of evidence-based research on mental health and the findings from her book. She will also provide attendees a unique opportunity to experience the benefits of mindful reflection by leading a healing circle exercise, followed by a moderated Q&A and open dialogue. Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler Biography Dr. Burnett-Zeigler is a licensed clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She has two decades of clinical experience helping people with stress, trauma, mood and anxiety conditions, and difficulty in interpersonal relationships. In her clinical practice she promotes holistic wellness through mindfulness, self-compassion and healthy behavior change. Inger’s scholarly work focuses on the role that social determinants of health play in mental illness and treatment, particularly in the Black community. She is the author of the book Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women. She has written dozens of articles and other publications on mental health in the Black community and lectures widely on barriers to access and engagement in mental health treatment, mindfulness and strategies to improve mental health outcomes and participation in treatment. Inger is an advocate for normalizing participation in mental health treatment and ensuring that all individuals have access to high-quality, evidence-based mental health care. She is an active contributor to the public discourse on mental health and she has been featured in the New York Times, TIME Magazine, and Chicago Tribune. Inger received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Cornell University, her doctorate in clinical psychology from Northwestern University, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the VA Ann Arbor/University of Michigan. She lives in Chicago.