Leadership Talk: We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
Join the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice in a spring Leadership Talk where you can explore our new Social Sector Leadership (SSL) and Non-Profit Management program while engaging in a compelling conversation with one of the nation’s preeminent scholars and a New York Times bestselling author, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., PhD, who is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. This Leadership Talk is in collaboration with the Family Action Network (FAN).
In his new book, "We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For," Glaude makes the case that the hard work of becoming a better person should be a critical feature of Black politics. Through virtuoso interpretations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Ella Baker, Dr. Glaude will show how ordinary people have the capacity to be the heroes that our democracy so desperately requires, rather than outsourcing their needs to leaders who purportedly represent them.
The first 200 Attendees will receive a free, signed copy of the book, courtesy of FAN.
This event is free* and welcomes participants from all backgrounds. Attendance is open to all.
Professional Development Credit is available. This event satisfies 1.5 hours toward the cultural competence requirement for social workers.
*There is a fee for those attendees seeking Professional Development Credit
Keynote Speaker
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., PhD, is the author of several books, including Democracy in Black and the New York Times bestseller Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, winner of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Book Prize. He frequently appears in the media as an MSNBC contributor on programs like Morning Joe and Deadline: White House.
In his writing and speaking, Glaude is an American critic in the tradition of James Baldwin and Ralph Waldo Emerson, confronting history and bringing our nation’s complexities, vulnerabilities and hope into full view. Hope that is, in one of his favorite quotes from W.E.B. Du Bois, "not hopeless, but a bit unhopeful."
Moderator of Discussion
Lisa L. Moore, PhD, LICSW is Senior Lecturer and Director of the A.M. Program in Social Work, Social Policy and Social Administration at the Crown Family School of Social work, Policy, and Practice. She has extensive teaching, administrative, and clinical practice experience. Lisa has worked in higher education for over 25 years as an administrator and faculty member. In addition to her work in higher education, she has sustained a small private psychotherapy practice and consultation business where she has done therapeutic work with individuals, families, and couples, and provided organizations reviews of equity and inclusion endeavors, consultative supervision, and facilitated high tension meetings between staff and senior management of non-profit organizations and educational institutions.
Dr. Moore’s scholarship is broad and diverse. Ranging from work with Gullah-Geechee Families on St. Helena Island, SC to her current scholarship and instruction which is focused on addressing the work of Fanon’s ideas of phobogenesis to understand the construction of the fear
Welcome Remarks & Overview of Social Sector Leadership Program
Nicole P. Marwell is a Professor in the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, where she is also Faculty Director of the School's Master's Degree in Social Sector Leadership and Nonprofit Management. Marwell is a faculty affiliate of the UChicago Department of Sociology, affiliated faculty at the UChicago Data Science Institute, and a member of the Faculty Advisory Council of the UChicago Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation.
Marwell has published articles in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Annals of the American Association of Political and Social Sciences, City and Community, Social Service Review, Human Service Organizations, Qualitative Sociology, and the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Her 2007 book, Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City was published by the University of Chicago Press. Prior to beginning her academic career, Professor Marwell worked in the field of nonprofits and philanthropy, including at New York City’s Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, the AT&T Foundation, the Levi Strauss Foundation, and Nike.
She was previously an Associate Professor of Public Affairs at Baruch College, the Academic Director of the Baruch Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management, and a member of the Sociology faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Professor Marwell received her PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago.
Event Sponsor is Family Action Network (FAN)
Attendees will receive a free, signed copy of the book, courtesy of FAN.
If you have any questions about access or to request a reasonable accommodation that will facilitate your full participation in this event such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text, food options for individuals with dietary restrictions, etc. please contact the event organizer.