The Vanderbilt Mission on Unity & American Democracy will host its subsequent Unity Dinner, “What Is Unity?,” on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 5–7:30 p.m. This dialogue, led by Stacy Clifford Simplican, Vanderbilt principal senior lecturer of gender and sexuality research, will study what unity is, who unity is for and whether or not it’s price striving for.
Dinner shall be offered, and the occasion is proscribed to 25 members. Registration is free and required for attendance. Register right here to safe your spot.
The Unity Dinner sequence intends to unite college students, workers, school and group members from various backgrounds, areas of experience and worldviews. The Mission goals to foster an atmosphere the place attendees be taught from each other and might share their data, experiences and opinions with out worry of judgement—leading to transformative communication. Dinners are centered round a subject of dialogue and have Vanderbilt school members who’re specialists on the chosen subject.
Simplican (she/her) would be the featured school member on the dinner on Sept. 27. She revealed a bit on the Unity Mission web site titled “Will Vanderbilt’s New Unity Lab Rent Me Even when I Dislike Unity?” She is the writer of The Capability Contract: Mental Incapacity and the Query of Citizenship (2015). She earned her doctorate in political science from Vanderbilt College.
Simplican will co-facilitate the dialogue with the next Unity Mission workers members:
Shevonne Nelson Dillingham (they/she) has greater than 20 years of expertise serving to private and non-private organizations attain their range, fairness and inclusion targets. Nelson Dillingham is the director for intercultural engagement throughout the Vanderbilt Mission on Unity & American Democracy. They’ve a wealth of expertise in larger schooling and have targeted most just lately on serving to college students, school and workers to find out about socially constructed distinction and techniques of oppression and to examine locations and areas that higher mirror equality.
Grey Sasser was appointed as the primary government director of the Vanderbilt Mission on Unity & American Democracy in December 2020. He joined Vanderbilt from Frost Brown Todd LLC, the place he was co-chair of the Blockchain and Digital Foreign money group and commonly suggested shoppers on regulatory points about cryptocurrency and U.S. securities legislation. A veteran of many political campaigns, Sasser started his skilled profession as a workers author at The Tennessean. He acquired his J.D. from Vanderbilt College Legislation Faculty.
