Join us for an important conversation about racism and education in America with author Eve L. Ewing and conversation partners Sean Eversley-Bradwell and Nia Nunn.
Eve L. Ewing is a writer, scholar, and cultural organizer from Chicago. She’s the bestselling author of the books Original Sins, Electric Arches, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, 1919, and Maya and the Robot. She writes comic books, including Exceptional X-Men and Ironheart and Black Panther. And TV, and theater, and a lot of other things as well. Eve is an associate professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Dr. Ewing is also a cultural organizer, which means she works collectively with other people to build and nurture creative communities, and strive for social transformation through artistic and cultural practices. She is also a co-owner of Build Coffee & Books in Chicago.
Dr. Sean Eversley Bradwell serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Education and currently serves as the Director for Ithaca College’s Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity (CSCRE). He has research / teaching interests in educational policy, pedagogy, and social change. Dr. Bradwell, an alumnus of Amsterdam High School (NY); received a B.A. in political science from the University of Rochester; an M.S. in education from Rochester’s Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development; and a Ph.D. in policy analysis and management from Cornell University.
Dr. Nia Nunn serves as an Associate Professor of education and psychology at Ithaca College and Board of Directors President of Southside Community Center. She’s a mother, artist, activist, and consultant within her community and across the country. Dr. Nia is the creator of programs designed to empower and uplift the voices of youth, particularly young Black women and girls, in particular through the work of the Community Unity Music Education Program (CUMEP) at Ithaca’s Southside Community Center. Dr. Nia’s work is rooted in the Black oral tradition––the movement, story-sharing, poetics, self-expression, and soulfulness––to create spaces that allow participants to get in touch with their own stories, heal from childhood traumas, and experience firsthand the power of collectivism.