Join us for a new series of online discussions with activists about the lessons they have learned while working long-term with people who share their goals but not their identities. Our fourth event will be with Dorothy Q. Thomas and Prof. Lisa Crooms-Robinson on Thursday, July 8th from 6:30 to 7:45 PM (ET).
Register on Zoom at bit.ly/PMCJUST4.
Our intention is to illuminate challenges and rewards of communicating with others across historically divided lines of identity:
to grow self-awareness of implicit bias and assumptions;
to acknowledge the vulnerability required to have deep conversations;
to gain insight in ways of listening and working with silence;
to recognize the power and benefit of our interconnectedness.
Dorothy Q. Thomas
Dorothy Q. Thomas is principal manager of Red Dirt Road Productions, LLC, a strategic advisory firm for scaling and sustaining social change. Thomas currently advises Reverend Dr. William J. Barber of Repairers of the Breach in North Carolina and also leads Free Radicals, an initiative to better measure, publicize and finance women’s affirmative impact on progressive social change. From September 2013-May 2014, Thomas was Interim President and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, where she previously served on its Board of Directors. Before leading Ms., Thomas co-founded and served as senior strategist to the U.S. Human Rights Fund, a seven year, $20 million dollar field-building collaborative fund. From 2008-11, Thomas held human rights fellowships at the London School of Economics and the School for Oriental and African Studies. From 1990-1998, she served as the founding director of the Human Rights Watch Women’s Rights Division. Thomas was a 2014 Ford Foundation Public Voices Fellow, a 1998 MacArthur fellow, and a 1995 Bunting Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. In 1998, she received the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award from President and Mrs. Clinton. She is a member of the board of The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice at Duke University.
Professor Lisa Crooms-Robinson
Professor Lisa A. Crooms-Robinson teaches Constitutional Law, Gender and the Law, International Human Rights Law and Supreme Court Jurisprudence. Professor Crooms received her B.A. in Economics from Howard University and her J.D. from the University of Michigan.
Currently, Professor Crooms-Robinson is a board member for the Center for Constitutional Rights and the U.S. Human Rights Network. She has also served as either an advisor to or a member of The Urban Justice Center, Unifem, the Sentencing Project, the International Human Rights Law Group (Global Rights), Amnesty International - U.S.A., the Human Rights at Home Campaign, the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, the Women’s Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights, the Pauli Murray Project, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its Causes and Consequences, and the Project for the Advancement of Our Common Humanity.
She was also a Fulbright Scholar at the Norman Manley Law School – University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica where she conducted research on the relationship between gender, violence and law in the construction of Jamaican post-independence national identity.