Institute on TRHT Campus Centers
Mentors and Speakers
Each campus team at the TRHT Institute will be assigned a mentor who is a leader from an existing TRHT Campus Center currently engaged in implementing transformative programming unique to the strategic vision, community partnerships, and context of their institution. In addition to the planned mentoring opportunities, teams will have the opportunity to schedule consulting appointments with other mentors, AAC&U TRHT leaders, national evaluators for TRHT Campus Centers, and experienced racial healing circle facilitators.
TRHT Institute Mentors
Marsha Darling
Adelphi University
Areas of expertise: Strategies for engaging key stakeholders; engaging students, integrating TRHT into the curriculumYves-Rose Porcena
Agnes Scott College
Areas of expertise: Community partnership; integrating TRHT into the curriculum; courageous conversations and community buildingMichael 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 curriculumKhayree 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 programmingTina 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 circlesJermaine Pearson
Consultant
Areas of expertise: Student engagement; Integrating TRHT into programs and curricula; Establishing partnerships with internal stakeholdersLeslie C. Lewis
3 Stories Consulting / Duke UniversityCreston 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 structureDavid Everett
Hamline University
Areas of expertise: Developing community engagements/partnerships; Connecting TRHT to broader DEI goals; Engaging studentsYerodin Lucas
Marywood University
Areas of expertise: Integrating TRHT into the curriculum; community engagement; engaging studentsSusan Womack
Millsaps College
Areas of expertise: Developing community partnerships; fundraising; strategies for engaging key stakeholdersWendy 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 changeSharon 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 facilitatorsCynthia Neal Spence
Spelman College
Areas of expertise: Anti-racist pedagogy; critical race theory; sociology of racial socialization; cross-racial dialogueLydia Jackson
Southern Illinois University EdwardsvilleKaiwipuni 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-facilitatorsEric 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 youthTeresa Neighbors
University of California Irvine
Areas of expertise: Integrating TRHT into the curriculum; developing community partnerships; engaging students
TRHT Institute Speakers and Co-Facilitators
Gail C. Christopher
National Collaborative for Health Equity
Executive DirectorLynn Pasquerella
AAC&U
PresidentTia Brown McNair
AAC&U
Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Student Success and Executive Director for the TRHT Campus CentersMee Moua
ConsultantGwenn Weaver
Independent ConsultantMichele Guzmán
TriWest Group
PrincipalTaylor Jackson
Tri West Group
Consultant