Heather Taylor, President of the Ethical Society of Police in St. Louis
Lindsay Koshgarian, Program Director at National Priorities Project
Phillip Brooks, Community Health Worker, RE-LINK Program, St. Louis Integrated Health Network
The goals of the conference are:
To facilitate productive dialogue between the students and both academic and seasoned practitioners whose advocacy, organizing, or research addresses global injustice
To consider the structural and social causes of injustice as well as how different groups and individuals experience, confront, mitigate, and transform it
To incorporate a variety of perspectives from different disciplines and practices, thereby leaving conference participants with a transdisciplinary understanding
To discuss the history and current research of interventions in order to align them with the framework of evidence-based practice
To engage students in a practical exercise of conflict resolution among stakeholders through a case competition
To foster collaboration and connection among Washington University undergraduate and graduate students as well as alumni and other professionals in the field