Selected programs I organized to enhance public engagement and education

See here for events for which I was the featured speaker

Speaker’s Series

  • 2015-2016: “Ensuring Health for You, Your Community, and Our World” featuring talks by:

    • Carmen Villar, CDC Chief of Staff

    • Vanessa Kerry, CEO of Seed Global Health

    • Isabella Danel, Deputy Director of PAHO/WHO

  • 2019-2020: “Race, Ethnicity, and Health” featuring:

    • a panel on “Race and Reproductive Justice” with Dr. Rebecca Shansami Ellis, Emory School of Nursing; Dázon Dixon Diallok, SisterLove; and Monica Simpson, SisterSong

    • a talk on “Social Disparities in COVID-19” by Dr. Paulina Rebolledo, MD MSc, Emory University School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health

    • a talk on “Viral Justice: Racism, Vulnerability, and Refuting Black Pathology” by Dr. Ruha Benjamin, MA PhD, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University

  • 2020-2021: “Relational Health” featuring:

    • a panel on “Better Together?: Social Connectedness and Physical Health” with Dr. Ellen Idler, Professor of Sociology & Director of Graduate Studies, Emory University; Dr. Heeju Sohn, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Emory University; Dr. Jennifer Mascaro, Assistant Professor, Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

    • a panel on “The Impact of Social Isolation on Older Adults” with Suzette Binford, Therapeutics Program Manager, Charles and Harriet Shaffer Cognitive Empowerment Program; Ginny Helms, President & CEO, LeadingAge Georgia; and Heather Bogle, Admissions Director, The Fountainview Center for Alzheimer’s Disease

Featured events

  • 2016: “Refugee Crises in Context: Health and Disability” a panel featuring:

    • Dr. Dabney Evans of Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health

    • Chris McNaboe of the Carter Center’s Syria Mapping Project

    • Dr. Nirmala Erevelles of the University of Alabama’s College of Education

  • 2020: “Defunding the Police: What does it Mean?” a panel featuring:

    • Dr. Michael Leo Owns, Emory Department of Political Science

    • Dr. Chanel Craft Tanner, Director Emory Center for Women

    • Darrin Sims, Director of Truth + Transformation Initiative, National Center for Civil and Human Rights

    • Liza Cobey, Director of Emory’s Students for Prison Education, Activism, and Resistance (SPEAR)