Juneteenth: Creating Local Change in Celebration of Current and Future Black Scientists
JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION
June 20, 2023
8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
2 Riverside Circle, Roanoke, Virginia
Creating Local Change in Celebration of Current and Future Black Scientists
The Virginia Tech community will acknowledge celebration of Juneteenth on June 20 at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC in Roanoke. The day's events will consider and discuss the challenges and opportunities we have in the scientific community to be thoughtfully and strategically inclusive in both how we conduct research and in who is conducting that research. Participants will engage in discussions with thought leaders with the goal of creating actionable plans for each of us as individuals and for the groups in which we work.
Schedule
8 a.m.: Breakfast (Riverside 2 Cafe)
9 a.m.: Welcome (Room M106, Riverside 2)
9:10 a.m.: Opening Remarks by Michael Friedlander, Ph.D.
9:30 a.m.: Keynote Speaker Erin Lynch, Ed.D., CRA
10:30 a.m.: Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.: Lightning Round Topics and Speakers
10:55 a.m.: Archie Freeman, III, M.S.
11:25 a.m.: Michele Deramo, Ph.D.
11:55 a.m.: Panel Discussion with All Guest Speakers
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch and Discussion (G101 A/B, Riverside 4)
Keynote Speaker
Erin Lynch, Ed.D., CRA
"To Remain Quietly No Longer: Celebrating Blacks in Biomedical Sciences"
President
Quality Education for Minorities Network
Dr. Lynch’s research area is strategic planning and program development. Her work is in educational assessment and evaluation, and systems change in equity centeredness. She has served as president of Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network; associate provost of scholarship, research, and innovation and dean of graduate school at Winston-Salem State University, a North Carolina HBCU; research director of the Center of Excellence of Learning Sciences (COELS) at Tennessee State University, and a faculty member in the College of Education at Austin Peay State University. As a researcher she has been funded in intervention development for historically marginalized minority groups and adult learners. Her research in funding equity and R&D productivity seeks to support minority serving institutions. She has produced over $600 million in proposals, and is published in the topics of leadership, HBCUs, innovation management, and instructional design.
Lightning Round Speakers
Archie Freeman, III, M.S.
"Adjustments Are Necessary"
Chief Academic Officer
Roanoke City Public Schools
Michele Deramo, Ph.D.
"How To Be a White Ally"
Associate Vice Provost of Diversity Education & Engagement
Office for Inclusion and Diversity
Virginia Tech
Previous Juneteenth Events
Juneteenth Celebration of Black Engineers and Scientists
June 17, 2022
Speakers and Panelists
Vernal Branch
Independent Research Patient Advocate
Lance Collins, Ph.D.
Inaugural Vice President and Executive Director
Virginia Tech Innovation Campus
Virginia Tech
Sylvester Johnson, Ph.D.
Assistant Vice Provost for the Humanities
Director, Center for Humanities
Virginia Tech
Margie Lee, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Professor and Department Head
Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine
Virginia Tech
Aziza Platt, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist and Health Disparities Researcher
Manu Platt, Ph.D.
Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Professor
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and Diversity Director
Georgia Tech
