Social Justice During COVID-19: The Critical Role Allies Can Play Dismantling Structural Racism
November 02, 2020
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Overview
This webinar, offered by AACN and the Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare Alumni Council, will focus on acknowledging our roles and responsibility of the healthcare sector in eliminating disparities. The speaker will talk about ways to identify what role each of us can play as allies, what activism looks like, and what it means to be an ally. The goal is to discuss the critical role healthcare professionals can play in dismantling racism. We must do THE WORK! The speaker also will discuss how we can relieve the emotional labor of others and why calling out and cancel culture can be deleterious to the social justice movement and allyship. Come explore how we can work together to eliminate disparities and advance health equity.
After participating in this webinar, attendees will be able to:
- The learner will understand what activism looks like in helping address racism in the healthcare sector.
- The learner will evaluate opportunities for moving their organizations towards eliminating disparities and advancing health equity.
Speakers
Speaker
Debra Joy Perez, PhD (she, her, ella)Senior Philanthropic Advisor and Independent Executive Consultant
Dr. Pérez is Senior Philanthropic Advisor and Executive Consultant to national foundations, federal grant making entities, and higher education. She has been a leader in advancing equity and accountability for three of the nation’s leading foundations and higher education organizations. Dr. Pérez has served on multiple committees and received multiple awards. At the National Science Foundation Educative Human Resources Advisory Committee, she led the subcommittee on Broadening Participation. In addition to her professional achievements, she has been recognized for her outstanding work mentoring underrepresented and emerging leaders as well as supporting others succeed in advancing equity. Dr. Perez has received multiple community awards including the 2019 Latinx Amplify Award, the 2015 Hispanics Inspiring Student Achievement Leadership in Mentoring award, the 2016 Hispanics in Philanthropy HIPGiver, the 2011 YWCA Women of Industry Award and the 2010 Latino Trendsetter Award. In 2015 she received an Honorary Doctorate from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. She was also featured in Latina Style Magazine as one of the Latina leaders in philanthropy.
In her work in professional private philanthropy, Dr. Pérez previously served as Chief Measurement and Evaluation Officer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. She also served as Vice President of Research, Evaluation, and Learning at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Interim Vice President at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Throughout her career, she has been responsible for bringing diverse perspectives to the table of research and policy decision-making. She has been responsible for developing many initiatives to foster high-quality multidisciplinary research and expanding various dimensions of diversity.
Dr. Pérez is the first in her family to go to college. She earned a bachelor’s in communication from Rutgers University/Douglass College; a Master’s in Social Science and Women’s Studies from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England; a Master of Public Administration from Baruch College, City University of New York; and a PhD in health policy from Harvard University.