2022 Institute on Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers
Institute Campus Mentors
Marsha Darling
Adelphi University
Areas of expertise: Strategies for engaging key stakeholders; engaging students, integrating TRHT into the curriculum
David Everett
Hamline University
Areas of expertise: Developing community engagements/partnerships; Connecting TRHT to broader DEI goals; Engaging students
Eric Ford
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Areas of expertise: Service learning with a race equity lens; Authentic community engagement; Student leadership; Collaborative systems change; Narrative change for system involved youth
Connie Frey-Spurlock
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Areas of expertise: Narrative change; community partnerships; digital storytelling
Jayne Ifekwunigwe
Duke University
Areas of expertise: Introducing the TRHT Framework as a holistic approach to racial justice; Mobilizing the arts and creativity; Engaging students and community youth; Transforming teachers
Kaiwipuni Lipe
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Areas of expertise: Indigenous knowledge and community engagement; Integrating TRHT into the strategic plan; Building a community of RHC co-facilitators
Yerodin Lucas
Marywood University
Areas of expertise: Integrating TRHT into the curriculum; community engagement; engaging students
Creston Lynch
George Mason University
Areas of expertise: Engaging students; developing community partnerships; strategies for engaging key stakeholders; weaving the TRHT Campus Center into current organizational structure
Michael Nixon
Andrews University
Areas of expertise: Documenting the narrative on race of an institution; developing community partnerships; engaging student; facilitating Rx Racial Healing Circles; integrating TRHT into the curriculum
Teresa Neighbors
University of California Irvine
Areas of expertise: Integrating TRHT into the curriculum; developing community partnerships; engaging students
Jermaine Pearson
CONSULTANT
Areas of expertise: Student engagement; Integrating TRHT into programs and curricula; Establishing partnerships with internal stakeholders
Yves-Rose Porcena
Agnes Scott College
Areas of expertise: Community partnership; integrating TRHT into the curriculum; courageous conversations and community building
Wendy Sherman Heckler
Otterbein University
Areas of expertise: Strategies for engaging administration; developing community partnerships; integrating TRHT into the curriculum
J. Goosby Smith
Pepperdine University
Areas of expertise: Facilitating interfaith healing circles; gaining local attention for the work; supporting a community agency to do this work; working across campus siloes to engage in powerful research and institutional change
Cynthia Neal Spence
Spelman College
Areas of expertise: Anti-racist pedagogy; critical race theory; sociology of racial socialization; cross-racial dialogue
Sharon Stroye
Rutgers University - Newark
Areas of expertise: Developing community partnerships; Integrating TRHT Framework into organizational culture/environment; Establishing cost-free structure; Expanding the number of new racial healing circle facilitators
Tina Terry
Big Sandy Community & Technical College
Areas of expertise: Integrating TRHT into the curriculum; developing community partnerships; implementing student activities and student engagement
Tessa Updike
The Citadel
Areas of expertise: Researching and documenting the history of race of an institution; Strategies for engaging key stakeholders, including senior administration, faculty, staff, students, and the greater community; Outreach strategies, including presentations events, receptions, and social media; Training and coaching facilitators for racial healing circles
Khayree Williams
Austin Community College
Areas of expertise: Diversity, equity, inclusion work; advocacy for historically marginalized students; prioritizing diversity and inclusion in staff, faculty, and leaders; student development and programming
Susan Womack
Millsaps College
Areas of expertise: Developing community partnerships; fundraising; strategies for engaging key stakeholders
Institute Speakers and Co-Facilitators
Gail C. Christopher
National Collaborative for Health Equity
Executive Director
Michele Guzmán
TriWest Group
Principal
Taylor Jackson
Tri West Group
Consultant
Spencer Kuchle
Old Stone House Museum & Historic Village
Associate Director of Collections and Interpretation
Tia Brown McNair
AAC&U
Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Student Success and Executive Director for the TRHT Campus Centers
Mee Moua
Consultant
Lynn Pasquerella
AAC&U
President
Gwenn Weaver
Independent Consultant
Participants will work with assigned Institute mentors from existing TRHT Campus Centers who are currently planning and implementing transformative programming to advance racial healing in collaboration with community partners. In addition to the planned mentoring opportunities, teams will be able to schedule consulting appointments with other mentors, AAC&U TRHT team leaders, the national evaluators for TRHT Campus Centers, and experienced Racial Healing Circle facilitators.