May 4, 2022, 8 am - 4 pm
Gatton Student Center
160 Avenue of Champions, Lexington, KY 40508
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Irma Sarett Rosenstein Lecture
Marc Lamont Hill, PhD
Professor, Temple University
Host, BET News, Black News Tonight, Al-Jazeera UpFront and Coffee & Books podcast
Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is one of the leading intellectual voices in the country. He is currently the host of BET News and a political contributor for CNN. An award-winning journalist, Dr. Hill has received numerous prestigious awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, GLAAD, and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Dr. Hill is the Steve Charles Professor of Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University. Prior to that, he held positions at Columbia University and Morehouse College.
Trained as an anthropologist of education, Dr. Hill holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the intersections between culture, politics, and education in the United States and the Middle East. Dr. Hill is the author or co-author of four books: the award-winning Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity; The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black life in America; the New York Times bestseller Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on The Vulnerable from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond; and Gentrifier.
Sponsored by: University of Kentucky College of Social Work
Lunch Keynote Address
Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD, PhD
Dean, George Washington University Law School
Author, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism To Heal America"
Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD, PhD, is the Dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Dean Matthew is a leader in public health and civil rights law who focuses on racial disparities in health care. She joined the UVA Law faculty in 2017 and is the author of Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care.
Dean Matthew graduated with an AB in economics from Harvard-Radcliffe and obtained a JD from the University of Virginia. Following graduation, she clerked for Justice John Charles Thomas, the first African American justice to sit on the Virginia Supreme Court. In 2018, she received a PhD in health and behavioral sciences from the University of Colorado at Denver. Dean Matthew has written articles on health and antitrust law that appeared in the Virginia Law Review, Georgetown Journal of Law, and American Journal of Law and Medicine.
Sponsored by: University of Kentucky College of Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy and the Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies