3835 Campus Drive
Architecture Building (145 ARC)
College Park, MD 20742
United States
Speaker
Corey Shaw Jr.
DC Legacy Project Director at Empower DC
About the workshop
Please join the Urban Equity Collaborative (UEC) for our workshop titled Reckoning: Leveraging Histories of Displacement to Achieve Equity with Corey Shaw Jr, DC Legacy Project Director at Empower DC. The Urban Equity Collaborative (UEC) is a University of Maryland initiative that employs an intersectional, multidisciplinary, and collaborative approach to community-based research. UEC hosts workshops that bring graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, and community leaders together to discuss the multiple and compounding forms of dispossession and displacement in urban neighborhoods and their acute impacts on marginalized communities.
Corey Shaw, Jr is a DC native with lifelong roots in Ward 7. He started working with communities in Washington, DC as the Co-Founder of the Black Broad Branch Project. In his capacity as an oral historian and chair of the policy implementation working committee, Shaw has advocated for reparations for two families whose ancestors were displaced from Chevy Chase, DC in 1928. He continues to support the project, engaging with descendants to mobilize a coalition of scholars, DC residents, and community organizations toward the goal of winning reparation in the forms of Acknowledgement, Compensation, and Education.
Hear more about Corey’s work on Thursday, November 9th, 2023 from 12:00 p.m.- 2:00 p.m. in Preinkert Hall Suite 1221. The first part of the workshop will be a presentation by the speaker followed by a Q&A with the audience which will be livestreamed, recorded, and posted on the UEC website. In the second hour, the moderator will lead a discussion with the speaker and attendees about the presentation. To ensure a comfortable and safe environment in which each participant is able to share, the UEC is requesting that the workshop portion of the event remain intimate at a 30-person capacity. Please reserve your space to attend this special working session! We are grateful for your time and contributions! Lunch will be served.