NPR's Maria Hinojosa Leads Discussion on Unconscious Racial Bias and its Impact on Children at W.K. Kellogg Foundation's America Healing Convening

NPR's Maria Hinojosa Leads Discussion on Unconscious Racial Bias and its Impact on Children at W.K. Kellogg Foundation's America Healing Convening

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New Orleans, la - A panel of social justice advocates will explore the multiple ways in which scholars, advocates and community organizations are addressing unconscious bias to create new strategies and ideas to advance racial justice in the 21st century. Through cutting-edge work of social science research and the racial justice community, we now understand that negative racial images are frequently embedded within our own unconscious bias which becomes highly visible within access to employment opportunities, school discipline action, immigration, health care access and other social opportunities. Our collective journey for racial healing and racial equity must embrace new strategies, partners and ideas to overcome all forms of racism.

Who: Moderator: Maria Hinojosa, Host and Managing Editor, Latino USA,
National Public Radio

Panelists:

-- Rachel Godsil, Director of Research, American Values Institute
-- Phillip Goff, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology,
University of California, Los Angeles
-- john powell, Director, Haas Center for Diversity and Inclusion
and Robert D. Haas Chancellor's Chair in Equity and Inclusion,
University of California, Berkeley
-- David Williams, Professor of African and African American
Studies, Harvard University
What: "Unconscious Bias and Race" Plenary Session at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's America Healing Convening

When: Wednesday, April 25, 2012

8:30am -- 10:00am

Where: New Orleans Marriott

Grand Ballroom, 3(rd) Floor

555 Canal Street

New Orleans

Contact: Jamaal Young

917.449.2748
jyoung3@webershandwick.com

Transcripts will also be available for download from www.wkkf.org or www.AmericaHealing.org.

About America Healing

WKKF launched its America Healing strategy in 2010 to support programs that promote racial healing and address racial inequity, with the goal to ensure that all children in America have an equitable and promising future. In 2011, it hosted the first America Healing conference in Ashville, NC, and this year's conference is being held April 24-27, 2012, in New Orleans.

About the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), founded in 1930 as an independent, private foundation by breakfast cereal pioneer, Will Keith Kellogg, is among the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States. Guided by the belief that all children should have an equal opportunity to thrive, WKKF works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life.

The Kellogg Foundation is based in Battle Creek, Mich., and works throughout the United States and internationally, as well as with sovereign tribes. Special emphasis is paid to priority places where there are high concentrations of poverty and where children face significant barriers to success. WKKF priority places in the U.S. are in Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico and New Orleans; and internationally, are in Mexico and Haiti. For more information, visit www.wkkf.org.

/PRNewswire -- April 24, 2012/

SOURCE W.K. Kellogg Foundation

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

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