Presents: The Conversation: Shifting The Educational Paradigm March 29, 2014 @ 12:00 pm: Juvenile Justice Building Room 155 The lecture series is designed to: 1) Produce transformative educational leaders. 2) Inculcate in educational leaders research acumen to address inequalities in education. 3) Produce scholar-activist who can advocate for disenfranchised students. 4) Produce scholar-activist who are committed to shifting the educational paradigm. Karen A. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Education and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah. Her area of research are late nineteenth and early twentieth century African American women educators, African-American intellectual tradition, black feminist and womanist theories, urban education and refugee education