Tolland Community Conversation - Expanding Your Racial Lens

Press release from the Town of Tolland:

September 30 2020

The Town of Tolland and the Tolland Public Library will be hosting a Community Conversation: “Expanding Your Racial Lens while Promoting Inclusion” on Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 6 PM. The purpose of this virtual interactive discussion is to facilitate a community conversation by exploring how socialization impacts racial development in society. The discussion will include an introduction of key concepts related to the intersectionality of race with other social identities and impart specific knowledge and strategies necessary for promoting inclusion.

Participants are encouraged to have color pencils and paper or M&M’s to engage in the interactive activity. Also, the facilitators will be utilizing Kahoot (www.kahoot.it, also available for download in Google or Apple apps) and encourage participants to download the app to participate in the activities.

The facilitators include Dr. Karen R. Brown McLean, PhD., MSW, the Department Chair and Associate Professor of Social Work at Western Connecticut State University, Dr. Yvonne O. Patterson, PhD., MSW, an Assistant Professor in the Social Work Department at Central Connecticut State University, and Dr. Loida Reyes, Ph.D., MSW, an Assistant Professor at Southern Connecticut State University in the Social Work Department.

This program is funded by the Friends of the Tolland Public Library and the Tolland Public Library Foundation.

Please register prior to the event by clicking here or by calling the library at 860 871-3620.
To join this remote Community Conversation via Zoom on the evening of October 8, 2020 click the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8345...
or call 1-646-876-9923 and input:
Meeting ID: 834 5546 1528
Passcode: 10082020

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This press release was produced by the Town of Tolland. The views expressed here are the author’s own.