Webinar: JEDI in Action: Update on the AAG's new Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Strategic Plan
Date and Time: Friday, November 19, 2021 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm U.S. Eastern Time
Members of the AAG Diversity and Inclusion Committee will provide an update on the JEDI strategic planning process, including an introduction to the plan’s framework [shared with Specialty Group Chairs 9/14/21 and approved by AAG Council 10/28/21] and the committee’s communication strategy to support sustained engagement with AAG members on JEDI matters. Session attendees will then be invited to breakout room conversations. These conversations will identify necessary JEDI-related resources and support to assist individual geographers. Conversations will also consider the role(s) AAG should play in advancing JEDI across the geography discipline. Ideas and observations shared with committee members may be brought back into the tasks of the committee.
AAG 3-Year JEDI Strategic Plan https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Yz9BoLkO3tFVx8ZTqmuj5B0wPCn_Wc7D2HYCNI1ZhLs/edit
Ronald Schumann University of North Texas
Ronald Schumann is an associate professor in Emergency Management and Disaster Science at the University of North Texas. His research, centered primarily in the recovery phase after disasters, examines interactions between social vulnerability, risk reduction practices, and geographies of memory. He currently serves as co-chair (with Lisa Marshall) of the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee of the AAG.
Lisa Marshall North Carolina State University
Lisa Marshall is the inaugural director of NC State Nuclear Engineering Outreach, Retention & Engagement Program and is responsible for pre-college through graduate level initiatives. Ms. Marshall's research work is in the areas of energy geography, (nuclear) engineering education, (inter)national co-curricular scholarship, geographic information systems (GIS), as well as STEM education for women and underserved populations. She currently holds executive positions in the American Nuclear Society (ANS), the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) & the American Association of Geographers (AAG).
Wei Li Arizona State University
Wei Li is a Professor at the Asian Pacific American Studies / School of Social Transformation, and School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning in the Arizona State University, USA. Her foci of research are migration and integration, and transnational connections, focusing on the Indo-Pacific Region. She is the author, [co-]editor or translator of seven scholarly books, three journal theme issues, and has 151 other academic publications. She is a National Councilor of the American Association of Geographers (2019-2022).
Meghan Cope University of Vermont
Meghan Cope is an urban social geographer who is interested in the ways that social, economic, and political processes influence cities and communities, as well as the ways that people's everyday lives create meaningful spaces and places. Her focus has always been on social/spatial processes of (in)justice and marginalization through constructions of gender, race/ethnicity, class, and youth.
Debarchana (Debs) Ghosh University of Connecticut
Debarchana (Debs) Ghosh is an Associate Professor of Geography at University of Connecticut (UConn). She is a member of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Diversity and Inclusion Committee and serves as an advisor to the Strategic Communications Editorial Board. In the past, she chaired the Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (HMGSG) and was a board member of Spatial Analysis of Modeling Specialty Group. As a health geographer, Debs’ research and teaching are primarily focused on the reciprocal relationship between ‘place’ and health, where a place is a multiscale and multidimensional unit, connecting people (vulnerable populations), things (facilitators and barriers), and the environment.
JEDI in Action: Update on the AAG's new Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Strategic Plan
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Date and Time: Friday, November 19, 2021 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm U.S. Eastern Time
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