Dr. Mike Davis ‘14 (GSLC, PhD) was a panelist featured during the 2021 National Returning Citizens Virtual Conference. The panel entitled, “Faith Leading the Way” provided a discussion regarding the role of faith-based communities in support of citizens and their families through hospitality, partnership, and prayer. Mike is also the keynote speaker of Gallia County, Ohio’s Emancipation Celebration. The event is known as the longest, continuous running celebration of the historical legislation.
Dr. Stalnaker-Shofner Presents on Critical Race Theory at National Conferences
Dr. Devona Stalnaker-Shofner, Associate Chair and faculty of Antioch New England’s MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program, recently spoke at two national conferences on the topic of Critical Race Theory as an approach to address race, racism, power, and privilege in counseling practices and systems that may work to silence the voices of historically marginalized populations. Entitled “Critical Race Theory as a Framework of Decolonizing Counselor Education,” her presentation identified the key tenets of CRT, and ways to ethically incorporate CRT into counselor education curricula to effectively teach students about advocacy, activism, and multicultural competence. Dr. Stalnaker-Shofner spoke at the Association