Preliminary Conference Program
2019 Women and Girls in Georgia Conference
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Athens, Georgia
*A pdf of this schedule will be available soon.
7:30am - 8:30am | Registration Check-In & Networking
Doors to open at 7:15am
8:30am - 9:45am | Morning Concurrent Sessions (A)
Session A1 - Communities of Earthcare: Local to Global and Back Again
--“Our Foremothers’ Land, Our Future Community: Launching the Vanilla Bowman Center”
Dr. Janaka B. Lewis, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Dr. Heather A. Brown, Vanilla Bowman Center
--“Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Interplay Between Local, National, and International Ecological Organizing”
Valerie King, University of Georgia
McEver Dugan, University of Georgia
--“The Vanguard of the Movement: A Community of Anti-Nuclear Women in the American South, 1974-2014”
Dr. Aubrey Underwood, Clark Atlanta University
Session A2: Workshop
--“Data & Storytelling for Community Engagement”
Leigh Creighton Bond, Feminist Women’s Health Center
Session A3 - Violence, Safety, Justice: Making Connections
--“Driving a Coordinated Community Response to Intimate Partner Violence: How Death Reviews Bring Community Change to Life”
Jenny Aszman, Georgia Commission on Family Violence
Jennifer Thomas, Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council
--“The Fear of Sexual Assault and Being a Part of the College Community”
Dr. Adrienne Baldwin-White, University of Georgia
--“Safe Zone for All: The First Steps to Becoming an Ally for Our Community”
Dr. Maria G. Calatayud, University of North Georgia
Session A4 - Feminist Politics in Georgia: Then and Now
--“Establishing the Northeast Georgia League of Women Voters: Opportunities and Challenges”
Dawn Hawkins Johnson, Hi Hope Service Center
Dr. Maryann E. Gallagher, University of Georgia
Andrea Wellnitz, Athens, Georgia
--"Leveraging the Female Collective: How can activists, advocates and elected officials work together for the benefit of their community?"
Deborah Gonzalez, Community Advocate, Former Representative of Georgia House District 117
Session A5: LGBTQIA+ Workshop
--"Trans-Affirming Practices"
Rebekah Ingram Estevez, University of Georgia, College of Education, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Mel Kutner, University of Georgia, College of Education, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Session A6 - Redefining Our Realities
--“Adolescent Girls Redefining the Feminine Aesthetic through Online Community Building”
Dr. Dawn Campbell, University of South Carolina
--“The Redefinition of Race, Gender, and Class in a Make America Great Again Society”
Syeda H. Bano, Oglethorpe University
--“A New Manifesto”
Ginny Morris, University of Georgia
10:00am - 11:15am | Morning Concurrent Sessions (B)
Session B1 - Black Lives, Empowerment, and Caring for Each Other
--“Black Lives Matter and the New Beloved Community”
Dr. Carolyn M. Jones Medine, University of Georgia
--“Digital Diaspora for Black Women and Girls: Engaging Pop Culture, Cultivating Pride in Communities, and Mobilizing for Change”
Ashley L. Love, University of Georgia
Tareva L. Johnson, Clemson University and University of Georgia
--“Building Alternative Futures: Exploring Core Beliefs To Revitalize Community Care, Prevent Burnout, and Break Down Martyrdom for Future Generations”
Erin Kilpatrick, University of Georgia
Frank Gorritz, University of Georgia
Constance Lewis Cromartie, University of Georgia
Session B2 - Critical Resistance, Questioning Pipelines
--“Breaking Out of Gender: Transgender Inmates, American Law, and Vulnerability Theory”
Lauren Hunady, Emory University
--“From the Classroom to Confinement: A Closer Look at the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Black Girls in Atlanta”
Kelcee Jones-Connor, Esq., Atlanta Judicial Circuit
Tia Dolet, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
--“An Examination of Pipelines: Investigating the Flint, Michigan Lead Pipeline through the School-to-Prison Pipeline Literature”
Yasmine Edge, Agnes Scott College
Session B3 - Arts in Action: Radical, Personal, Collective
--“Radical Feminism in Action: Women’s Music Festivals Transforming the Patriarchal Music Industry”
Jaime Webb, University of Georgia
--“Lillian Smith and Carson McCullers: Professional Struggle, Personal Conflict"
Scenes from the prize-winning play “Lillian, Paula, Carson” read by UGA students, T. Lynn Mikeska, Robyn Accetta, and Atalanta Siegel, Play written by John Barrow
Session B4: Workshop
“Become a Sexual Abuse & Assault ‘Mythbuster’”
Marina Sampanes Peed, Mosaic Georgia
Lindsay Woon Ferreira, Mosaic Georgia
Kathy Carter, Mosaic Georgia
Meredith Rainey-Permar, Mosaic Georgia
Session B5 - Cultivating Health: The Political is Personal
--“The Mental Health Effects of Unsafe Abortions”
Jordyn Alderman, Kennesaw State University
--“Reproductive Justice through Menstrual Health: The Importance of Menstrual Cycle Education and Advocacy”
Dr. Evelina W. Sterling, Kennesaw State University
--“The Effect of Stereotypes on Black Women’s Mental Health”
Quanay Calvert, Kennesaw State University
Session B6: Workshop
"Youth & POC Leading the Way in Eco-Justice"
Zero Hour Georgia
11:30am - 12:45pm | Keynote Lecture (plenary)
"Not Quite: Navigating Citizenship and Belonging"
1:00pm - 2:30pm | Lunch
Included in registration
2:45pm - 4:00pm | Roundtable Discussion (plenary)
Community-Building and Social Justice Activism in Georgia
Moderated by Dr. Kelly Happe, University of Georgia
Panelists include:
Rosalba Alvarez, Dignidad Immigrante en Athens
Courtni Andrews, Southerners on New Ground (SONG)
Briana Bivens, University of Georgia
Shannon Clawson, Georgia Equality
Natasha Dorr-Kapczynski, Zero Hour Georgia
Agbo Ikor, SPARK Reproductive Justice Now
4:15pm - 5:30pm | Afternoon Concurrent Sessions (C)
Session C1 - Gender, Justice, Immigration, and Activism
--“Lazos Hispanos: Promotoras as Agents of Change in Athens, Georgia”
Dr. J. Maria Bermudez, University of Georgia
Promotoras/Community Health Workers
Rebecca Matthew, University of Georgia
Pamela Orpinas, University of Georgia
Carolina Darbisi, University of Georgia
Alejandra Calva, University of Georgia
Luis Alvarez, University of Georgia
--“The Victim-Perpetrator Binary in Media Coverage of Immigrants”
Nira Marte, University of Georgia
Session C2 - Feminist Leadership/Feminist Learning
--“WomenLead in Georgia: Experiential Learning & Professional Aspirations among Undergraduate Women”
Dr. Sarah Allen Gershon, Georgia State University
Dr. Nancy Mansfield, Georgia State University
--“Power Dynamics of Women in Leadership Roles and Their Systems of Community Support”
Elisabeth Malloy, Georgia Southern University
Ashley Strickland, Georgia Southern University
--“Imposter Syndrome and Feminist Pedagogy”
Cheryl Kennedy, University of Georgia
Session C3 - Black Feminist Praxis: Spirituality, Pedagogy, Literature
--“#BlackGirlsArise!: (Re)visioning Black Feminist Pedagogy in Urban Education Research”
Annette Teasdell, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
--“Let me be spiritual: Narratives of Black Undergraduate Women at Predominately White Institutions”
Dr. Christy Y. Dinkins, University of Georgia
--“Can the Black Girl Speak?: Surviving Transgenerational Traumas in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory (1998) and Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give (2017)”
Necole DeLoach, Georgia Southern University
Dr. Hapsatou Wane, Georgia Southern University
Session C4 - Why We're Here: Improving Community Response to Victims of Sexualized Violence
Lindsay W. Ferreira, Mosaic Georgia
Kathy Carter, Mosaic Georgia
Meredith Rainey Permar, Mosaic Georgia
Marina S. Peed, Mosaic Georgia
Session C5: Workshop
“Protecting our House: Bystander Intervention for a Caring Community”
Tayler Simon, University of Georgia