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Title: Care, Community & Accountability: Reflections on Masculinity Date: Wednesday, March 29
Time: 12-1:30pm
Audience: students, staff, and faculty
Sponsoring Department: The Department of Counselor Education, The School of Professional Psychology
Format: Storytelling & Dialogue
Tellers: Ada Cheng, The Honorable Angelina Nordstrom, and C. Russell Price
Descriptions:
In collaboration with the Department of Counselor Education at the School of Professional Psychology, Dr. Ada Cheng will bring her signature storytelling event Care, Community & Accountability: Reflections on Masculinity to campus. Through storytelling, followed by an in-depth dialogue facilitated by Dr. Ada Cheng, we will examine why understanding, critiquing, and most importantly transforming masculinity, is central to the counselor education as well as to transformative changes for our society.
The event will be about 50 minutes of storytelling, followed by 40 minutes of dialogue and intimate sharing.
Producer and host:
An educator-turned artist, storyteller, and creator, Dr. Ada Cheng has utilized storytelling to illustrate structural inequities, raise critical awareness, and build intimate communities. Committed to amplifying and uplifting marginalized voices, she has created numerous storytelling platforms for BIPOC and LGBTQIA community members to tell difficult and vulnerable stories.
Dr. Cheng has been speaker for Illinois Humanities Road Scholars Speakers Bureau since 2019. She currently teaches at Dominican University. Her interests encompass academia, storytelling/performance, and advocacy.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 325 N. Wells,Chicago,IL,United States