G+JI Annual Report 2020-2021

G JI serves to
The
visibility and
increase
our
deepen
of critical
understanding
connected to
issues
justice. As such,
gender
bring together the
we
and DC
Georgetown
for
community
and timely
meaningful
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conversations.
panels and
year's
included a wide
lectures
of gender and
range
justice topics
racial
Black
including,
mental health
feminism,
BIPOC, sexual
for
abuses in
violence,
disability
detention,
prison abolition,
justice,
organizing, and
labor
Our Business: A Conversation about
Minding
Injustice, COVID-19 and Mental Health
Racial
event over attracted over 150 attendees and several of them wrote
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afterwards to thank us for creating this space and speaking
us
was a particularly difficult year for BIPOC communities around the
2020
The COVID-19 pandemic not only disproportionately impacted
country.
communities, but exacerbated the already existing inequalities. In
these
the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and countless other
addition,
Lives lost to white supremacist violence have deeply affected Black
Black
communities.
conversation explored BIPOC mental health issues, related
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to the COVID-19 pandemic and racism/racial injustice;
specifically
stigma, barriers, and structural and systemic racism within the
addressed
system; and shared strategies, resources and support available
healthcare
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Adolescent Psychologist.
Director,
included Corey A. Williams, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry,
Panelists
& Adolescent Psychiatrist; Jo Ellyn Walker, Counseling Psychologist,
Child
and Psychiatric Service; Kristine Goins, Assistant Professor of
Counseling
Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist; and Jioni Lewis,
Clinical
Professor of Counseling Psychology, University of Maryland
Associate
by the Counseling and Psychiatric Service at Georgetown
Co-sponsored
(CAPS), Office of Student Equity & Inclusion (OSEI), Office of
University
Equity and Inclusion at GU School of Medicine, Office of Equity
Diversity,
Inclusion Georgetown Law, Women in Science and Education (WISE).
&
Panel
Discussions
& Lectures
Spotlight
Mental Health
February 4, 2021
+
for BIPOC
authentically and critically about mental health for BIPOC.
during these challenging times.
conversation was moderated by Dionne S. Coker-Appiah, G JI Co- +
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