Ethnic Studies Symposium Overview

- Student co-chairs (L) Maya Litauer Chan '19, Jasmine Torres '19, Maya Hernández '19, and Angelica Flores '19
- Student art curators Andrea Lewis '21 and Nicole Lewis '21
- Wednesday night banquet.
- Race Monologues presenters at the Ray Warren Banquet
- Warren family at banquet
- Deirdre Cooper Owens with co-chairs (L) Angelica Flores '19, Jasmine Torres '19, Maya Hernández '19, Maya Litauer Chan '19
- Co-chairs Maya Hernández '19 and Jasmine Torres '19, introducing keynote speaker Deirdre Cooper Owens
- "How Modern Medicine Was Born of Slavery" with keynote speaker Deirdre Cooper Owens
- Keynote speaker Deirdre Cooper Owens
- (L) Yashshree Raj Bisht, Tuse Mahenya, Olivia Santiago, Madisyn Taylor, and Nyna Kumi Butler performing "A Bitter Pill: A Play Within a Play"
- "A Bitter Bill: A Play within a Play"
- "Cultural Traditions and Healing Practices" panel. Moderator Magalí Rabasa (L) with panelists Raina Croff, Shafia Monroe and Jai Medina (R)
- Jai Medina presenting traditional song at "Cultural Traditions and Healing Practices" panel
- Wednesday night keynote
- Arumina Jamwal '21 asks a question during the "Cultural Traditions and Healing Practices" panel
- "Mental Health is Not Just for White People" panel. Moderator Angela Buck (L), with panelists Claudelle Glasgow, Asani Seawell, Yin Li and Jenjee T. Sengkhammee
- Race Monologues 2018
- Audience Thursday nightNina Johnson
- L&C students Asia Wooten and Bradley Ralph, Race Monologues co-coordinator
- “Mental Health is not just for White People” panel
- Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations
- Keynote speakers, students, and facultyNina Johnson
- Race Monologues presenter Sheyla Dorantes Sanchez '22
- "Healing Justice in Conversation" keynote panel, (L) Sepideh Bajracharya, Autumn Brown, Jerry Tello, and Carla PérezNina Johnson
- Photo and memory book of Ray WarrenNina Johnson
15th Annual Ray Warren Symposium
Bitter Pills: Race, Health, and Medicine
November 7–9, 2018
How do systems of oppression make people sick? Who has access to health care, and whose well-being is prioritized through public health policies? Though science and medicine are often considered neutral and objective, how have culturally created classifications of race shaped biomedical research and clinical practices? How, in turn, does medical science perpetuate racial ideologies?
Critical questions like these are at the center of the 15th Annual Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies, which will explore the racialized dimensions of health and medicine in institutions, communities, and individual experiences. We will examine topics such as genetics, mental health, reproductive justice, environmental racism, and disparities in diagnosis and treatment, as well as experiences of people of color who are medical and health practitioners. This symposium aims to expose structural inequalities and painful histories while also underscoring the transformative ways in which communities of color have developed strategies of healing justice as a form of resistance.
Student co-chairs: Angelica Flores ’19, Maya Hernández ’19, Maya Litauer Chan ’19, and
Jasmine Torres ’19
Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies is located in Miller Center on the Undergraduate Campus.
MSC: 63
email rwchairs@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7378
fax 503-768-7379
Director: Kimberly Brodkin
Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies
Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road MSC 63
Portland OR 97219