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Westminster Students and Faculty Attend National Conferences
A group of seven Westminster students and faculty members went to Tampa, Fla., Dec. 2-5 to participate in the annual National Association of Independent School’s People of Color Conference/Student Diversity Leadership Conference (PoCC/SDLC) titled “Learning to Listen and Listening to Learn: the Art of Dialogue and the Science of Living Justly.” Mae C. Jemison, American physician, NASA astronaut and the first African-American woman to travel in space, welcomed participants in her opening ceremony address.
As students attended multiracial and multiethnic group discussions on self-reflection, ally building and cross-cultural communication, faculty participated in sessions that ranged from the impact of storytelling on diversity work to a master class with Mahzarin Banaji, who co-authored “Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People.”
SDLC participants were Ellen Gyasi ’16, Nathali Madrid ’17, Gary Simon ’17 and Ricardo Vazquez ’16, who all applied last spring to represent Westminster and were selected by the Faculty Diversity Committee. PoCC participants were Associate Director of Admissions David Pringle, Spanish teacher Sandy Palala-Carlisle and Director of Multicultural Affairs Lisa McGrath.
Lisa was not only an attendee; she also played a leadership role at the conference. As the vice chair of the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools Commission on Diversity in Independent Schools, she was one of the chief organizers of the regional meeting titled “The Caring Educator’s Dialogue for Engagement: Embracing the Struggle.” More than 100 educators from Connecticut attended the session and joined small breakout sessions on topics such as courageous conversations and self-care.
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