2022 Institute on Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers
Institute Campus Mentors
David Everett
Hamline University
Areas of expertise: Engaging students; integrating TRHT into community; incorporating TRHT into campus vision
Eric Ford
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Areas of expertise: Service learning through a TRHT lens; community partnerships; youth and student leadership development
Jayne Ifekwunigwe
Duke University
Areas of expertise: Radical TRHT pedagogy; integrating the TRHT framework as an holistic approach to racial equity; mobilizing the arts and creativity as part of TRHT praxis; engaging alumni and senior leadership/administrators; collaborating within and across institutional siloes; narrative truth and interdisciplinarity
Kaiwipuni Lipe
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Areas of expertise: Integrating TRHT into strategic planning and accreditation; grounding in Indigenous knowledge; creating TRHT 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: Engaging student in prison to school program; developing community partnerships; engaging/introducing TRHT framework to nonprofit organizations and local municipal governments for front-line personnel and service providers
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 Christopher
National Collaborative for Health Equity
Executive Director
Marsha Darling
Adelphi University
Special Assistant to the President for Strategic Initiatives in Executive Leadership, Office of the President
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
Yerodin Lucas
Marywood University
Executive Director, Office of Institutional Equity & Inclusion
Tia Brown McNair
AAC&U
Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Student Success and Executive Director for the TRHT Campus Centers
Mee Moua
Consultant
Michael Nixon
Andrews University
Vice President for University Culture & Inclusion, Chief Diversity Officer; Director, Andrews University TRHT Campus Center
Lynn Pasquerella
AAC&U
President
Yves-Rose Porcena
Agnes Scott College
Vice-President, Equity and Inclusion
Wendy Sherman Heckler
Otterbein University
Provost and Senior Vice President
Tina Terry
Big Sandy Community & Technical College
Coordinator of Academic Programs / Dual Credit
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.