Los Angeles Wildfires


To help faculty, staff and students who have been severely impacted and need financial assistance, USC has implemented the Trojan Family L.A. WildFires Relief Fund.

Updates
Apply Now for 2025

Fall 2025 Applications NOW OPEN for On-Campus MSW

APPLY
USC University of Southern California

Race Symposium

Sponsor:
USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
 Cost:
Free
Details:

The USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work will be hosting a Race Symposium, a one-day invitation-only event with a small number of academics from across disciplines and U.S. universities. The focus of the discussion is to highlight how race research extends beyond academia and creates change in social policy as well as an impact in the broader community.

Cherrie Short, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work associate dean of global and community initiatives, and John L. Jackson, University of Pennsylvania School of Social of Social Policy and Practice dean, will provide opening remarks. During lunch, USC Provost Michael Quick and USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work Dean Marilyn Flynn will speak to the importance of research focused on race relations.

Agenda:

08:00am – 08:30am
Continental Breakfast 

08:30am – 09:00am
Opening by Dean Jackson, School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania, and Cherrie Short 
Overview of Agenda 
Introduction of Sessions 

Race & Health: Presentations and Discussion Part 1 

09:00am – 9:40am
Race-Ethnicity, Poverty, Urban Stressors and Telomere Length in a Detroit Community-based Sample | Dr. Arline Geronimus 
Reproductive Injustice: State Violence, Young Parents in Child Welfare and a Call for Family Integrity | Dr. Lauren Silver 
Racial Profiling, Black Male Stigma and Social Work Practice | Dr. Martell L. Teasley
Building Capacity in Systems of Care in Latino Communities May Eliminate Health Care Disparities | Dr. Erick Guerrero

9:40am-11:40am
Discussion

11:40am – 12:00pm
Break 

12:00pm – 01:15pm
Luncheon with USC Provost Michael Quick and Dean Marilyn Flynn 

Race & Politics: Presentations and Discussion Part 2 

1:30pm – 02:00pm 
Perceived electoral malfeasance and resentment over the election of Barack Obama | Dr. David C. Wilson 
Community Matters: Unpacking the Institutional Infrastructure Undergirding the Workplace Inequality | Dr. Flannery G. Stevens 
The Ghetto Tax: Auto Insurance, Postal Code, Profiling and the Hidden History of Wealth Transfer | Dr. Devin Fergus 

2:00-4:00pm
Discussion 

4:00-4:15pm
Next Steps with Terence Fitzgerald 

4:15pm – 04:30pm 
Closing Remarks by Dean Flynn, Dean Jackson, Associate Dean Short