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| Crossroads II: Community-Based Collaborative Research |
| for Social Justice |
Hartford, Connecticut | June 7-9, 2007
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CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Pre-Conference Tours of Hartford
ICR organized a community bus tour focusing on the conference’s three tracks: Root Causes of Inequities, Translating Interventions, and Integrating Arts and Research. The tours presented concrete examples of how communities use CBCR for social justice. Read more.
Pre-Conference Workshops
On Thursday, June 7, conference participants and non participants alike attended three pre-conference workshops. Read more.
Keynote Speakers
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Makani Themba-Nixon is Executive Director of The Praxis Project, a nonprofit organization helping communities use media and policy advocacy to advance health equity and justice. Current projects include Policy Advocacy on Tobacco and Health (PATH), a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative to build tobacco control policy advocacy in communities of color. She was previously director of the Transnational Racial Justice Initiative (TRJI). Makani has published numerous articles and case studies on race, media, policy advocacy and public health. Her latest book is "Making Policy, Making Change,” which examines media and policy advocacy for public health. |
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Michelle Fine, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Women's Studies and Urban Education at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research focuses on social injustice: how injustice is sustained and resisted; how critical consciousness develops; when elites awaken to unjust privilege, and how critical research methods support social movements. Crafted at the intersection of feminist, critical race and social justice theory, her participatory action research projects with women in prisons and youth in schools and communities are designed toward critical social theory, community organizing and social change. |
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Charles R. Martinez, Jr., Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and research scientist at the Oregon Social Learning Center in Eugene, Oregon and directs the OSLC Latino Research Team. His research interests include risk and protective factors in Latino families facing stressful life events, the development and evaluation of culturally specific interventions for Latino families with youngsters at risk of behavioral health problems, and minority health disparities. Dr. Martinez has received numerous awards for his work, including the ‘2003 Community, Culture, and Prevention Science Award’ from the Society for Prevention Research. |
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Jean J. Schensul, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Institute for Community Research, is a medical/educational anthropologist with a background in qualitative and mixed methods research and a career commitment to the development of community based research institutions in the U.S., South Asia and Latin America that use social and health science research in partnership with communities to address issues of disparity and social justice. Founding director of the Institute for Community Research (1987 to 2004) she guided the evolution of its programs of participatory, basic, intervention, action research, cultural conservation and support for urban artists and the ICR community gallery. |
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John O'Neal is a writer, performer, and founder and artistic director of Junebug Productions, a nationally acclaimed touring theatre company and community development program in New Orleans. He was a Field Secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and co-founder and director of the Free Southern Theatre. O'Neal has authored numerous plays, essays and poetry. Recently he and collaborator Theresa Holden won the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World Award for their work on The Color Line Project, a national story collection project about the Civil Rights Movement. |
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In 1989, Judy Dworin founded the Judy Dworin Performance Project, Inc. with the belief that the arts challenge cultural values and inspire change. The project's main work includes cutting edge performance, educational residency for underserved populations in schools and prisons, and a mentoring program for artists. Judy founded the Dance Program at Trinity College, and presently co-chairs the Department of Theater and Dance there. She has received the Connecticut Governor Arts Award and the CT Dance Alliance Award for Distinguished Service. Judy has published articles in such journals as Contact Quarterly and Northeast Magazine. |
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Linda
Goss is a storyteller in the tradition of her
African and African American ancestors. Her repertoire
includes folktales and original pieces developed through her
methods for creating story-based performance through
oral-history research with family and community members.
Linda’s art is built upon the transformative power
of storytelling. An agent for social change, she works
to empower all people to acknowledge, know, and express
their own stories. In 1982, Linda and other storytellers
created In the Tradition: National Black Storytelling
Festival, which gave birth to the National Association
of Black Storytellers in 1984. She has worked in the
Philadelphia community for over 30 years. The title
of her presentation is "Waking Up the People: Storytelling
in the African-American Tradition."
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Gallery Exhibit
Crossroads II featured a special exhibit of artwork that explores the interface of artistic expression, structured inquiry, and social justice issues at the individual, community, and society levels. Creatives, artist/research teams, and researchers who transform research into artistic products submited their work. Read more.
Performances
Performing artists including dancers, musicians, and poets submited proposals for conference panels and workshops to encourage dialogue around the interface of art and research for social justice.
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| A visitor at ICR's Living Spaces exhibit. |
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Artists’ Marketplace
An Artists’ Marketplace featured the products and stories of Connecticut’s many ethnic and national groups. Conference attendees purchased hand-made crafts and artwork from select invited artists. |
| The Artists' Marketplace at ICR. |
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Check back periodically for updates on conference highlights.
Conference Main Page | Call for Participation | Conference Agenda | Conference Highlights |
Pre-Conference Workshops | Hotel & Travel Information | Registration Information |
Exhibitor Opportunities | Sponsorship Opportunities
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