Senior Vice President for Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice and Chief Diversity Officer Melanie Hart will host a free-wheeling conversation and open Q&A with University Professor Darrick Hamilton and Postdoctoral Fellow Grieve Chelwa on the need for a new, anti-racist vision for economic rights in order to advance transformational change towards economic inclusion, civic engagement and social equity.

Darrick Hamilton is a university professor, the Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, and the founding director of the Institute on Race and Political Economy at The New School. Dr. Grieve Chelwa is the Inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute on Race and Political Economy at the New School where he leads the Institute's work on Inclusive Economic Rights.

Suggested readings:

The Moral Burden on Economists (Institute for New Economic Thinking, 4/13/17)

Neoliberalism and Race (Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Summer 2019)

This will be a performance/address by Dr. Daniel Bernard Roumain, faculty member at the College of Performing Arts. The performance will begin with violin performance and a meditation on this moment of change, crisis, and our role towards crafting a shared morality. This will be followed by an address on our country’s lack of empathy and our attempt, as a New School, to forge new ways of being, seeing, and believing. This will be followed by a discussion and question and answer period.

Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) is a prolific and endlessly collaborative composer, performer, educator, and social entrepreneur. “About as omnivorous as a contemporary artist gets” (New York Times), DBR has worked with artists from Philip Glass to Bill T. Jones to Lady Gaga; appeared on NPR, American Idol, and ESPN; and has collaborated with the Sydney Opera House and the City of Burlington, Vermont.

An interdisciplinary discussion on decolonizing pedagogy, understanding the question of race beyond the US context, and working to address university systems and processes that are subtly hostile to BIPOC students. Case studies of decolonizing (from inside and outside TNS) will be offered, as well as discussions related to not only attracting, but retaining a diverse student body that can flourish in higher education. Includes student contributions and perspectives.

Speakers include Dr. Lei Ping, Assistant Professor of China Studies and co-Chair of Faculty Council at the Schools of Public Engagement; Dr. Pani Farvid, Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology, Chair of BPATS Psychology and co-Chair of Faculty Council at the Schools of Public Engagement; and Laura Cronk, Assistant Professor of Writing & Chair of the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program at the Schools of Public Engagement.

This teach-in session is a processing circle. We aim to "hold space"... for grief, for pain, for transformation, for our community.

The Derek Chauvin verdict is a legal decision but the system remains. As scholars, students, healers and advocates, how do we process the outcome while preparing for the ongoing challenges of the current criminal justice system?

Tamara Oyola-Santiago and William Evans from The New School's Institute for Transformative Mentoring (ITM) will facilitate using circle methodology centering storytelling and healing.

Attendance to this gathering will be limited to 10 participants.

This teach-in will focus on building tools for addressing implicit bias-specifically, adultification bias against Black girls, in response to the death of Ma'Kiah Bryant. Participants will learn, and understand the importance of storytelling and story-keeping, as a tool for helping to address implicit biases.

Attendance to this gathering will be limited to 50 participants. Before the teach-in, participants are invited to take one of the Harvard Implicit Bias tests.

Toya Lillard is part-time faculty at The New School where she teaches Collaborative Theatre Practice, and serves on the Cultural Change Taskforce, as well as the Faculty and EISJ Committees.

Suggested readings:

Adultification Bias (Georgetown Law)

A Battle for the Souls of Black Girls (New York Times, 10/01/20)

End Adultification Bias (Georgetown Law)

Training Bias Out of Teachers: Research Shows Little Promise So Far (Education Week, 11/17/20)

Educator bias is associated with racial disparities in student achievement and discipline (Brookings Institution, 7/20/20)