2021 Chain Reaction Workshops
This January would have been TSA’s 12th Annual MLK day celebration, Chain Reaction, a single day of student, teacher and community-member-led workshops focusing on celebrating, exploring and engaging in the spirit of the work of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This year’s virtual format will provide an opportunity to expand our program and engage presenters from all over the globe for a series of 1-hour sessions over the course of four weeks in February and March.
2021 Chain Reaction Workshop Keynote Speaker
Each session will be offered virtually for one hour, but workshops are a single session or double sessions meeting Wednesdays, February 17 and March 3. The Keynote Speaker on Wednesday, February 7, will be Lisa M. Brown, Ph.D. Social Psychology professor at Austin College in Sherman, TX.
Shirley Jefferson, JD, Associate Professor of Law, VT Law School
The event will close on Wednesday, March 17, with Shirley Jefferson, Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Diversity and Associate Professor Law at Vermont Law School.
To see the full list of workshops and their descriptions to be held Wednesdays, February 17 and March 3, click here. Here are the titles:
February 17
- Between the World & Me–Part 1
- The Importance of Stories–Part 1
- Decolonize the Curriculum
- GI Bill
- How do You See Me and Why?
- Planet Money: Patent Racism
- CRD Objectives
- Yoga: Cultural Appreciation or Appropriation?
March 3
- Between the World & Me–Part 2
- The Importance of Stories–Part 2
- What is Democracy
- Black Photography and Art
- Understanding Race & Whiteness as a Korean-American: What would I have to look like to look like I’m “from around here”?
- Microaggressions
- Running for Local Office
- Race: The Power of an Illusion