Keynote Addresses and Research Presentations

Keynote Address

Caroline Laguerre-Brown

Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement, George Washington University

"As an anchor institution located in Washington, DC, we have the capacity to forge community partnerships at home and abroad that will help improve the lives of the most vulnerable in societies around the world.

I hope the Equity Institute Initiative will move next to formalizing a research infrastructure that will support the research of the caliber that we saw showcased today. I am excited to see the Equity Institute Initiative support the creation of new research partnerships; train students in the best practices of community engaged research; attract new sources of research funding to the university; and establish a social justice community of scholars that will help GW recruit and retain the nation’s best minds in this field.”

Research Presentations

Plenary Session I

Dayna Bowen Matthew, Dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School

Plenary Session II - Criminal Justice and Equity

Avoiding The Prosecutor’s Paradox: How Race-Neutral Charging Drives Racial Disparities and How Race-Neutral Reforms Can Help, Donald Braman (Law)
The Mental Health Consequences of Parental Incarceration: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study of Adolescents through Adulthood in the United States, Antwan Jones (Sociology)
The Limits of Community Policing in Ending Violence and Providing Justice, Leniqueca Welcome (ESIA)

Break Out Session I - Gender and Equity

Power Reimaged: Gender and Racial Equity Center Pilot, Alfreda Robinson (Law) and Monica Hawkins (Community Partner)
#MeToo in Retrospect: A Transnational Reflection, Ashwini Tambe (WGSS)
The Economic Demography of Gender Egalitarianism, Carmel Chiswick (Economics)

Break Out Session I - Mapping Equity

Race, Immigration, and Confinement in Rural Meatpacking: Decentering Whiteness and Mapping Injustices, Ivy Ken (Sociology)
The Effects of Student-Teacher Ethnoracial Matching on Exclusionary Discipline for Asian American, Black, and Latinx Students: Evidence From New York City, Matthew Shirrell (GSEHD)

Break Out Session I - Housing and Neighborhood Equity

Disparities in Air Pollution and Associated Health Burdens in the United States: Who, Why, and What to Do? Gaige Kerr (MSPH)

Break Out Session I - Health Equity

Medical Legal Partnership Pilot, Gigi El-Bayoumi (SMHS)

Break Out Session II - Health Equity

Restoring Mental Health After COVID-19 Through Community-Based Psychological Services in New York City (RECOUP-NY), Chynere Best (SMHS)
Building COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Among Nurses and in Communities, Karen Drenkhard (SON) and Omar Shoheiber (Community Partner)

Break Out Session II - Global Equity

Repairing International Tax Reform, Karen Brown (Law)
The Generations Dialogue Project: Towards a More Representative American Foreign Policy, Jennifer Brinkerhoff (ESIA)

Break Out Session II - Equity and Humanities

Culture Keepers: African American Funeral Directors in the Era of COVID, Sarah Wagner (Anthropology) and Dr. Kami Fletcher (Community Partner)
writehealing, policy and praxis project (WHPP), Jameta Barlow (University Writing Program) and Deja Williams (Community Partner)
Moral Psychology and Antiracist Obligations, Jeffrey Brand (Philosophy)

Break Out Session II - Education Equity

Leading for Equity: How Principals Experience Professional Learning, Jennifer Clayton (GSEHD) and Christine Nganga (Community Partner)
Association of the COVID-19 Pandemic with Medical School Diversity Pathway Programs, Sonal Batra (SMHS)