Pinderhughes Diversity Lecture Series
Ain’t I a Woman? Revisiting and Reclaiming African American Girls’ Racialized and Gendered Experiences within the Classroom
Friday, April 23, 2021
Noon to 1 p.m.
Virtual
The Pinderhughes Diversity Lecture Series, which launched in 2007, has featured doctors, anthropologists, and journalists who have reflected on topics like poverty, racism, and same-sex marriage. Sheretta Butler-Barnes, an associate professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, will deliver the 14th Pinderhughes Diversity Lecture. The series is named in honor of Elaine Pinderhughes, a professor emerita of the School of Social Work whose seminal research revealed that race, ethnicity, and power strongly influence how social workers interact with clients.
2020
Cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic
2019
Renée Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, and Founding Director, Vital Village Community Engagement Network
“An Ounce of Prevention: Building Communities of Opportunity to Mitigate Structural Inequities and Childhood Adversities”
This event was presented in partnership with YW Boston.
2018
Cia Verschelden, Executive Director of Institutional Assessment
Office of Academic Effectiveness, University of Central Oklahoma
“Bandwidth Recovery: Reclaiming Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Other ‘Differentisms’”
2017
Pam Cross, Journalist, News Reporter and Social Entrepreneur
“What Phenomenal Women Know”
2016
Elaine Pinderhughes, Professor Ermerita at Boston College School of Social Work
Patricia Romney, Licensed Clinical and Organizational Psychologist at Romney Associates, Inc.
Vanessa Jackson, Soul Doula at Healing Circles
“Understanding Power: 21st Century Human Services Imperative”
2015
Salome Raheim, Dean and Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work
“Race and Justice: From Analysis to Action”
2014
Mary Catherine Bateson, Writer and Cultural Anthropologist
“On the Work of Societal Healing: The Age of Active Wisdom”
2013
Christine Griffin, Executive Director, The Disability Law Center
“Diversity and Inclusion: When Will People with Disabilities Be Included?”
2012
Vincent D. Rougeau, Dean, Boston College Law School
“Reflections on Justice and Religious Diversity: Why Living Together Is Better than Apart”
2011
Dr. Jack Kirkland, Professor, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
“The Black Masses—Permanently in Poverty—Slavery—Depression—Recession—as Far as the Eye Can See. Unless...”
2010
Dr. Usha George, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University, Toronto
“Immigrants and Refugees: Settlement Issues and Service Delivery Models”
2009
Dr. Beverly Greene, PhD, ABPP, Professor of Psychology at St. John's University, NY
“Social Marginalization By and Between the Marginalized: What the Same Sex Marriage Debate Hath Wrought. Implications for Mental Health Providers.”
2008
Dr. Monica McGoldrick, Director of Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Park, NJ
“Culture Matters: But What Difference Does It Make?”
2007
Dr. Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Clinical Psychology Professor, Rutgers University
“The Treatment of African American Clients and Families”
About the Keynote Speaker
Sheretta Butler-Barnes
Sheretta Butler-Barnes is a developmental psychologist who studies the impact of racism and the use of culturally strength-based assets on the educational and health outcomes of Black American adolescents. Before coming to the Brown School, Butler-Barnes was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan's School of Education, which is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Black Youth in Context. Butler-Barnes received her PhD and MA from Wayne State University in developmental psychology and a BS in psychology from Michigan State University.
Her research agenda includes two particular areas of focus: The Strengths-Based Assets of Black Adolescents Project explores how Black youth draw on personal and cultural assets and resources to thrive despite challenges to their identities from interpersonal experiences of racism. The Celebrating Strengths of Black Girls Project focuses on advancing equity for women and girls of color.
Pinderhughes Fellowship Fund
In honor of the many accomplishments and contributions made by Elaine Pinderhughes, noted teacher, scholar, and professor emerita, we invite alumni, students, and their friends and families to lend their support to the Elaine Pinderhughes Fellowship, a fund that provides financial aid each year to outstanding African American doctoral students at the Boston College School of Social Work.
Read about 2019 Pinderhughes Fellowship recipient Melissa Bartholomew
