Conference Schedule

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Thursday, October 23rd, 6:00pm - 9:00pm 
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Plenary Conference Opening: Race Counts!

Welcome

• Miriam Jiménez Roman, Executive Director, afrolatin@ forum
  
• Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation
  
• Juan Flores, co-founder, afrolatin@ forum

Round-table Discussion

• Pedro Noguera, New York University

• Tanya K. Hernández, Fordham University School of Law
• Leonardo Reales Jiménez, Human Rights Activist, Storyteller, and University Professor
• Tianna Paschel, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
• Rolando Roebuck, Community Activist, Washington, DC

Cultural Presentation

RSVP for Thursday Night's Plenary

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Friday, October 24th, 8:30am - 6:00pm
Graduate Center, City University of New York

9:00am - 9:15am

• Arrival and registration
  

9:15am - 10:45am

• In and Out of Focus: Media and AfroLatin@ Representation
  

• AfroLatin@s in the Classroom: Youth, Education and Culture
  
  

11:00am - 12:30pm   

• Looking Suspicious: The Racialization of Crime
  

• Taking Measures: AfroLatin@s and Economic Inequities
  
  

12:30pm - 1:30pm

• Lunch

1:30pm - 3:00pm

• ¿Y nosotros qué?: Acknowledging the AfroLatin@ Immigrant
  

• AfroLatin@s and Health Disparities: When Both Race and Ethnicity Matter
  

3:00pm - 3:30pm

• Break

3:30pm - 5:00pm

• Plenary: Connecting Stories: The Practice of Racial Dialogues

5:15pm -  6:45pm

• Closing Plenary: Identity, Visibility and Representation: The Role of the Census

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Saturday, October 25th, 1:00pm - 6:00pm 
El Museo del Barrio

1:00pm - 2:30pm   

• Panel: Recounting the Afrolatin@ Artist Experience – Past, Present, & Future

2:30pm - 3:30pm   

• Dance and Mask-Making Workshops

3:30pm - 5:00pm        

• Musical and Cultural Performances

4:30pm - 5:30pm

• Reception

RSVP for Saturday's Family Day