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 curriculumDavid Everett
Hamline University
Areas of expertise: Developing community engagements/partnerships; Connecting TRHT to broader DEI goals; Engaging studentsEric 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 youthConnie Frey-Spurlock
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Areas of expertise: Narrative change; community partnerships; digital storytellingJayne 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 teachersKaiwipuni 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-facilitatorsYerodin Lucas
Marywood University
Areas of expertise: Integrating TRHT into the curriculum; community engagement; engaging studentsCreston 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 structureMichael 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 curriculumTeresa Neighbors
University of California Irvine
Areas of expertise: Integrating TRHT into the curriculum; developing community partnerships; engaging studentsJermaine Pearson
CONSULTANT
Areas of expertise: Student engagement; Integrating TRHT into programs and curricula; Establishing partnerships with internal stakeholdersYves-Rose Porcena
Agnes Scott College
Areas of expertise: Community partnership; integrating TRHT into the curriculum; courageous conversations and community buildingWendy Sherman Heckler
Otterbein University
Areas of expertise: Strategies for engaging administration; developing community partnerships; integrating TRHT into the curriculumJ. 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 changeCynthia Neal Spence
Spelman College
Areas of expertise: Anti-racist pedagogy; critical race theory; sociology of racial socialization; cross-racial dialogueSharon 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 facilitatorsTina Terry
Big Sandy Community & Technical College
Areas of expertise: Integrating TRHT into the curriculum; developing community partnerships; implementing student activities and student engagementTessa 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 circlesKhayree 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 programmingSusan 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 DirectorMichele Guzmán
TriWest Group
PrincipalTaylor Jackson
Tri West Group
ConsultantSpencer Kuchle
Old Stone House Museum & Historic Village
Associate Director of Collections and InterpretationTia Brown McNair
AAC&U
Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Student Success and Executive Director for the TRHT Campus CentersMee Moua
ConsultantLynn Pasquerella
AAC&U
PresidentGwenn 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.