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Dr. Howard Stevenson: Childhood Trauma in Children of Color
Start Date: 4/8/2019Start Time: 12:15 PM
End Date: 4/8/2019End Time: 1:45 PM
Event Description

Dr. Howard Stevenson is the Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education, Professor of Africana Studies, in the Human Development & Quantitative Methods Division of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Stevenson is Executive Director of the Racial Empowerment Collaborative (REC), a research, program development, and training center that brings together community leaders, researchers, authority figures, families, and youth to study and promote racial literacy and health in schools and neighborhoods. He is also the Director of Forward Promise, a national program office funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to provide philanthropic support for organizations designed to improve the health of boys and young men of color and their families and to help them heal from the trauma of historical and present-day dehumanization, discrimination, and colonization. Since 1985, Dr. Stevenson has served as a clinical and consulting psychologist working in impoverished rural and urban neighborhoods across the country.

Contact Information:
Name: Cassie Grainge
Email: ceg84@drexel.edu
Location:
Law Building, Room 240
Audience:
  • Everyone

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