ROOTING AFRICAN AMERICAN-IMMIGRANT RELATIONS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE:
A CURRICULAR “MAPPING” OF THE FIELD
RESOURCE CENTER STEERING COMMITTEE BIOS
Dushaw Hockett, Center for Community Change
Dushaw Hockett is the Director of Special Initiatives-Black America Organizing Project for
the Center for Community Change in Washington, D.C. In 2007 he put together a panel at
the national summit for the Fair Immigration Reform Movement on organizing in the context
of Black and Brown. He is an author of Crossing Borders: Building Relationships across
Lines of Difference.
Carmen Morgan, Leadership Development in Interethnic Relations
Carmen Morgan is the Program Director of Leadership Development in Interethnic Relations.
She co-wrote and edited ExpandingLDIRship: A Resource Promoting Positive Intergroup
Relations in Communities Through Awareness, Skills and Actions in 2002, which remains
the center piece of LDIR’s community programming and training.
ADD LEAH WISE
Jorge Zeballos, XXXXXXXXXXX
Jorge Zeballos was born in Washington, DC but grew up in Lima, Peru. He is a community
organizer at the Institute for Dismantling Racism in Winston Salem as well as the Latino
Community Coordinator and International Student Advisor at Guilford College in
Greensboro. Mr. Zeballos is also an independent diversity consultant with years of expertise
conducting workshops, presentations and leading long-term diversity initiatives.
THE KIRWAN INSTITUTE TEAM BIOS
RESEARCH TEAM
The Kirwan Institute partners with people, communities, and institutions worldwide to think about,
talk about, and act upon issues of race and ethnicity in ways that create and expand opportunity for
all. www.kirwaninstitute.org
Angela C. Stuesse, University of South Florida Department of Anthropology
Angela Stuesse is an activist anthropologist and a postdoctoral researcher at the Kirwan
Institute. She is currently writing a book, Globalization “Southern Style”, based on her
research on Latino migration to rural Mississippi, the poultry industry, and cross-racial
worker organizing there. While in Mississippi, she was a founding collaborator of the
poultry workers’ center MPOWER, where she developed and piloted a curriculum titled
Solidarity/Solidaridad: Building Cross-Cultural Understanding for Poultry Worker
Justice.
Cheryl Staats, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Cheryl Staats’ work at the Kirwan Institute centers on immigration. She was a researcher on
a project team for the recent Kirwan Institute initiative that explored alliance building
between African American and immigrant communities with an eye towards both the
challenges and opportunities associated with these partnerships.
Kerra (Kaycee) Carson, Kirwan Institute & Multicultural Center, Ohio State University
Kaycee Carson is a doctoral student in Higher Education and Student Life in the School of
Educational Policy and Leadership. She created the OSU Multicultural Center’s Intergroup
Relations (IGR) program and served as its coordinator through June 2010. This effort
involved researching, developing, and implementing intergroup relations curricular initiatives
as well as following-up with assessment and evaluation tools.
Andrew Grant-Thomas, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Andrew Grant-Thomas is Deputy Director of the Kirwan Institute. His substantive interests
include structural racism and implicit bias, alliance-building between immigrants and African
Americans, African American males and gender dynamics within the African American
community, and systems thinking. He previously directed the Color Lines Conference and
managed a range of policy-oriented racial justice projects at the Civil Rights Project at
Harvard University. He is editor of Twenty-first Century Color Lines: Multiracial Change in
Contemporary America.
MEETING PREPARATION
In preparation for our first phone meeting, please consider the following questions and come ready to
share your thoughts.
1. What do you and/or your organization bring to the Advisory Committee in terms of
experience, interests, relationships, other? Who else should be seated at our figurative table?
2. What particular phases/aspects of the project would you like to be most involved in,
balancing the above with your many other commitments?
3. What curricula are you aware of that focus on intergroup relationship building within
working communities of color? Try to think of examples in each of these categories: worker
centers; unions; other community organizations.
4. What frameworks do you think are important to use in analyzing intergroup relationship
building curricula and their implementation in working communities of color?
5. Do you have any suggestions regarding potential sources of funding for this project, in
particular for our upcoming convening?
6. What is your availability to attend a convening in December?
FIRST MEETING AGENDA
* DRAFT*
1. Introductions
Welcome, project goals and overview
Who we are and what we bring to the project
Who is missing from the Advisory Committee?
2. Project Calendar/ Work Plan
Details of calendar/ work plan, expected products of the work
AC roles, responsibilities, individual involvement
Funding support
3. Beginning the Research
Focus on phase one of project (research)
Curricula and organizations to consider
Analytical frameworks guiding our work
4. Next Steps
Follow up interviews with AC members
Availability for December convening?
Suggestions re: roles/responsibilities/structure/communication of AC?