Let your voice be heard! Community Conversations is a signature event organized by Talent Management and Culture. These proactive conversations are the place for your voice to be heard! We are building an inclusive community, one conversation at a time.
Highlights
Heather McGhee addresses the crowd on the importance of working together to bridge divides.
On October 26th, The Sum of Us author Heather McGhee addressed an audience of over 140 students, faculty and staff members, colleagues of Sentara Healthcare, and community members about the intersections of justice, discrimination, practical change, and the powerful growth that can come from working together.
The Sum of Us follows Heather McGhee on a cross-country journey as she explores the origins of economic inequality in America. Along the way she meets many people who confide in her about losing their homes, their dreams, and their shot at better jobs to the toxic mix of American racism and greed. Despite this, McGhee offers hope and an empathetic view into a multicultural America.
She was hosted by Talent Management and Culture as part of our CommUNITY Conversations series, held in conjunction with the Monarch Task Force for Inclusive Excellence and Sentara Healthcare's Employee Resource Groups.
An Intergenerational Conversation on Violence Against Asian Americans
This episode features Virginia's Poet Laureate Emeritus and ODU Professor of Creative Writing Dr. Luisa Igloria and her daughter Gabriela Igloria, a senior and President of the Filipino American Student Association (FASA). They spoke with us about the long history and continued pattern of racism and violence against Asian Americans across the country, the intersectionality of social justice, and the ways stereotypes mistakenly inform identity.
"Fifth Sun"
Our first episode features the work of American historian Dr. Camilla Townsend who serves as the Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. She has written Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs, in which she explores the complexity of the history of the Aztecs based solely on the texts written by the indigenous people themselves and through the lens of Aztec women. Dr. Townsend was intervied by our very own Drs. Angelica Huizar and Veleka Gatling.