Where there is oppression, there is resistance and resilience. A panel discussion by experienced activists, psychologists, and educators will explore both the impact of collective and historic trauma on targeted communities and its relevance for today.
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Dr. Alexis Herr is the Associate Director of the Jewish Family and Children Services Holocaust Center in San Francisco. She is the author of “The Holocaust and Compensated Compliance in Italy: Fossoli di Carpi, 1942-1952,” and the editor of “Rwanda: The Essential Reference Guide,” and “Sudan: The Essential Reference Guide” (forthcoming, 2019).
Kanwarpal Dhaliwal, RYSE Associate Director and Co-Founder and adjunct faculty at San Francisco State University, guides the implementation of healing-centered practices, grounded in racial justice and liberation through community-based youth programs. She develops, promotes, and advocates for policies, investments, and research that enliven healing and justice.
Dr. Shannon Cooper is a licensed Clinical Psychologist. She has been in private practice for over 15 years. She currently serves as the Dean of Counseling at Cosumnes River College and previously worked as a college professor at California State University, Sacramento. Her areas of interest include healing circles for people of African ancestry, child abuse survivors, and self-care practices for women of color.
Moderator: Satsuki Ina, Ph.D. is a third generation Japanese American, born in the Tule Lake Segregation Center, a maximum-security prison for 18,000 prisoners of Japanese ancestry during WWII. She is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Sacramento, a community activist and psychotherapist specializing in community trauma.
WHERE
“Then They Came for Me” Exhibition
100 Montgomery Street in the Presidio, San Francisco
