Marxe Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee

Critical Race Theory

Date: December 10, 2021

Workshop Recording

Featured Speaker(s)

Angie Beeman is an Associate Professor in the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs and Affiliate Faculty with Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College-CUNY. Her work examines the evolution of racism, its intersection with economic inequality, and how this process affects institutional practices, identities, and interracial organizing. Dr. Beeman’s research has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Forbes Magazine, The Wire, Sociological Forum, Social Science Quarterly, the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Violence Against Women and as chapters in several edited volumes. She has been quoted in the Huffington Post, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, Galveston Daily News, Wallethub, and College Magazine. Dr. Beeman has shared her work with multiple audiences and is frequently invited by organizations to speak on the issues of racism, social justice, allyship, advocacy, and cultivating inclusiveness in the workplace. Her forthcoming book, “Liberal White Supremacy” examines divides among progressives and the role of liberal ideology in silencing racial and class oppression.

Sonia Jarvis is an accomplished scholar whose research and teaching focus on race, politics, and the media. She has written several book chapters and papers, and is currently completing a book entitled Through a Prism, Darkly: The Media’s Impact on Race and Politics in America Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. She is an active member of several professional associations and academic organizations. In addition to her scholastic work, she has served in a number of administrative positions, including most notably as the executive director of the National Coalition on Black Voter Participation, Inc. A frequent commentator on public issues, she has been interviewed by almost every major media outlet in the country, such as National Public Radio, the Washington Post, and CNN. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on media politics, and she brings a wealth of practical and theoretical knowledge to the courses she teaches at Baruch. She graduated with a JD from Yale University.

Elliott Dawes is the Executive Chief Diversity Officer at Baruch College and heads the Office of Diversity, Compliance and Equity Initiatives. Before joining Baruch in August 2021, he was the CDO for Institutional Equity and Inclusion at SUNY Empire State College. Prior to that, Dawes served as the university director of The City University of New York Black Male Initiative (CUNY BMI) and assistant dean for Multicultural Affairs at the Hofstra University School of Law. He has experience as a lawyer and educator, including as a trial attorney, Educational Opportunities Litigation Section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice and an associate professor, African American Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. Dawes holds an LLM from Columbia Law School, a BA in Government and Africana Studies from Cornell University, and a JD from the New York University School of Law.

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