Speaker Series: The Conversation about Being Anti-Racist & Anti-Xenophobic

800 West University Parkway,Orem UT 84097

08 September, 2022

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"The Conversation about Being Anti-Racist & Anti-Xenophobic" - Presented by Dr. Warburton, Dr. Kang, Dr. Hernandez, Dr. Singer, & Dr. McAdams-JonesNot being racist and xenophobic is not enough; we must be anti-racist and anti-xenophobic, and we must see each other as human. In a second, can you think about all the emotional and physical bleeding, anguish, hardship, and torment on this earth fueled and bred in racism, hatred, bigotry, xenophobia, and man’s hatred of his own kind? Dr. Daniel Fairbanks, distinguished Utah Valley University professor, research geneticist and former dean of the College of Science, writes that everyone is African, that geneticists and anthropologists agree that the origin of the human species is from sub-Saharan Africa, and that the dark pigmented skin is the natural original state of all humanity. Can we talk?______________________Roots of Knowledge is a sweeping stained-glass panorama of history and human drama. The intricate details incorporated into every window represent years of painstaking research on the events and people that shaped humankind from the days of wooly mammoths and cavemen to the iPhone. Created by Holdman Studios and installed at the UVU Fulton Library in 2016, this artistic landmark comprises 80 individual panes and took 12 years to complete.For information on where to park at UVU, please visit https://www.uvu.edu/parking/visitor-parking.html.About Dr. Mia KangDr. Mia Kang is an associate professor in the Department of Elementary Education in Utah Valley University’s School of Education. She has worked at UVU since 2011, and her teaching focuses on ESL teaching methods and multicultural education. She has taught for 30 years in various settings, including secondary education in South Korea for 15 years and both in elementary and higher education in the US for another 15 years. Her academic interests broadly encompass critical multicultural/multilingual curriculum and pedagogy for social justice and equity, critical pedagogy, critical race theory, curriculum theory, and educational policy studies. Dr. Kang is committed to supporting refugee communities, closely working with two refugee centers in Utah. She is president elect of Utah NAME (National Association for Multicultural Education). About Dr. Trevor WarburtonDr. Warburton is an assistant professor in the Secondary Education program and a former mathematics coach for special education teachers and high school mathematics teacher for emergent multilingual students. Currently, he serves as an active community member, pushing social justice issues to the legislature and ensuring his university colleagues are aware of policy and laws as they are being discussed at the capitol and on the home front. Dr. Warburton serves as the board secretary for TODOS, a member of Mathematics for ALL Higher Education, and representative to the Utah Council of Teachers of Mathematics. About Dr. Leandra HernandezDr. Leandra H. Hernandez (she/her; PhD, Texas A&M University) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and the associate academic director for the Center for Social Impact at UVU. She enjoys teaching health communication, gender studies, and media studies/journalism courses. She has mentored several undergraduate students in conference presentation and publication contexts. She was the recipient of the 2020–2021 UVU Faculty Champion of Inclusion Award for her advocacy work on campus. In research contexts, her publications lie at the intersections of military communication studies, Latina/o/x studies, media ethics, and health communication studies. She has published five academic books, plus several book chapters and journal articles. She serves on the editorial board for several journals in her field and serves as the chair of the Feminist and Gender Studies Division for the National Communication Association.About Dr. Meg SingerMs. Singer is a program director of the Native American Initiative and a Utah Native educator.About Dr. Meg SingerDr. McAdams-Jones was born a sharecropper’s daughter in South Carolina. In 1973 she became a first-generation graduate with a BS in nursing at Tuskegee University in Alabama. After completing a graduate program in education management at Tuskegee University, she served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps for eight years, entering as a captain and exiting as a major. After a seven-year childbearing hiatus, she reentered the workforce. She completed a graduate degree in nursing science with a nurse educator certificate and EdD in health professions at the College of Saint Mary in Omaha, Nebraska, followed by a completion of a post-doctorate in nursing education from Teachers College of Columbia University in 2018. She is credentialed by the Society of Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) as a certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) and a Harvard-educated Simulation Course Instructor. Dr. McAdams-Jones is also a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy.