October 2023 | Race: Discussions in Schools Around the Country and in Princeton

This recording is presented in Partnership by Princeton Public Library and Not In Our Town Princeton. Our schools are part of the systems that comprise life in America. And like all our systems – racism runs through it, from slavery to the present, from kindergarten to college, with examples of Critical Race Theory as a flashpoint and deficit language that blames kids not systems for challenges in the schools. Leading this conversation is Not In Our Town board member and attorney Caroline Clarke, Dr. Simona L. Brickers, previous NIOT Co-Chair and board member, who currently lectures on The Politics of Leadership and Education at Bard College in Berlin, Germany, and Dr. Lynda Dodd, a lecturer in the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs, who teaches courses on gender, race, law, and public policy.

Caroline Clarke’s lifelong work is advocacy for the under-served. A civil rights attorney for over 20 years, she has worked in various non-profit, governmental and quasi-governmental agencies, including Disability Rights NJ, the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights and the Department of Labor & Workforce Development.

Teacher and author Lynda Dodd’s research focuses on American political and constitutional development, constitutional law and theory, jurisprudence, and civil rights litigation. In addition to Princeton, Dr. Dodd has been on the faculty of The City University of New York-City College and American University’s Washington College of Law.

Dr. Brickers is the Senior Consultant at Phillips Brickers Institute. She studies and teaches Decolonizing Chronically Touched and Untouched: The Politics of Leadership and Education as a social and human phenomenon, examining the intersections of equity theory, social identity theory and intergroup conflict, and organizational culture.

This event was recorded on October 2, 2023.

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