How to be a Culturally Inclusive Conversation Moderator
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Event Details
Friday, Oct. 22, 2021 |
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About the Program
In a time of extreme political partisanship and increased conflict between religious and ethnic groups, teaching, spreading, and supporting the skills of dialogue and deliberation are vital. Deliberative Conversations are innovative processes that help people come together across differences to tackle challenging problems and conversations. The Deliberative Conversations format is intended to intentionally bring together individuals who represent diverse perspectives around a topic; sometimes difficult or controversial, to advocate for tangible, joint solutions that give a voice to all invested in the conversation.
This interactive training, led by the RAND Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy and Wabash College, will frame this process and provide opportunities to discuss how to apply this approach in research and everyday life.
Facilitators
Rhianna C. Rogers
Rhianna C. Rogers is the director of the RAND Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy. She is an expert on cultural and ethnic studies, intercultural competencies and diversity education, cultural mediation, and virtual exchange programmatic development and implementation. Prior to joining RAND, she was an associate professor of interdisciplinary studies (history and anthropology) and the coordinator of the Global Indigenous Knowledge program at State University of New York (SUNY), Empire State College.
Sara A. Mehltretter Drury
Sara A. Mehltretter Drury is associate professor and chair of the Rhetoric Department at Wabash College, and since 2014, serves as the director of Wabash Democracy and Public Discourse, an interdisciplinary program that works with campus and community partners to promote productive conversations on public problems. Drury’s research and practice focus on the intersections of rhetoric and deliberative democracy, with particular attention to deliberative pedagogy, argumentation, and political communication.
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