Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT)


Wednesday, January 29, 2025
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Allendale Campus
Faculty, Staff




As part of the 2025 National Day of Racial Healing (January 21), the Inclusion and Equity Institute at GVSU invites interested faculty and staff to join its second cohort of TRHT participants. Through TRHT, participants build relationships, trust, and collective power. Those relationships lay the groundwork for powerful systemic change, supporting participants to re-envision and reshape their institution’s policies and practices.

Space in this cohort is limited to 30 participants. There is no fee to participate and copies of Rx Racial Healing will be provided to all who register, in advance of the first session. Meetings will take place on the Allendale Campus on the following dates/times:

  • Wednesday, January 29th: 4-5:30PM
  • Wednesday, February 26th: 4-5:30PM
  • Wednesday, March 12th: 4-5:30PM

We hope you will join us! Participants in the 2023 and 2024 cohorts universally described the experience as energizing, transformative, and a constructive avenue toward building sustainable change.

Learning Outcomes - Participants will be able to:

  • Read and discuss Dr. Gail C. Christopher's Rx Racial Healing: A Guide to Embracing Our Humanity, which outlines the TRHT process
  • Participate in a series of conversations that are designed to bring people together in safe spaces to build authentic relationships grounded in appreciation, respect, and trust that extend across and within racial groups
  • Identity specific action steps that participants can take to heal racial divides and transform Grand Valley into a less segregated, more equitable, diverse, and inclusive institution

Presenters:

  • Jakia Marie (She/Her/Hers) Program Coordinator, Africana Studies and Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Melanie Shell-Weiss (She/Her/Hers) Associate Dean and Professor, Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Division of Academic Affairs

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Location Information


Allendale Campus in Kirkhof Center Rm# 1142

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Contact Information


Inclusion & Equity Institute

Email: iei@gvsu.edu

Phone: 616-331-4111


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This event was added to the calendar by Ashley Jefferson (jeffeash@gvsu.edu) on Thursday, January 9, 2025 and was last updated on Friday, January 10, 2025 at 8:18 a.m.