Ekene Ijeoma’s Black Mobility and Safety: From Learning to Loving in the US course includes a series of public guest panels around living while Black. Tune in for the next event of this spring, featuring Tanya Wallace-Gobern and Thomas Shapiro, on April 6 at 1pm.
Event
Black Mobility and Safety Seminar: Working while Black with Tanya Wallace-Gobern and Thomas Shapiro
Tanya Wallace-Gobern
Tanya Wallace-Gobern became the Executive Director of the National Black Worker Center Project in June 2016. She brings over 20 years of experience in labor and community organizing. Tanya began her career immediately following college graduation, when she trained with the Organizing Institute of the AFL-CIO. Soon after that, her desire to organize Black workers led her to work for the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU — a predecessor union of Unite HERE) and move to the Southeast where she worked as a lead organizer in that region. Later, she created the AFL-CIO’s Historical Black College Recruitment program in order to increase the number of Blacks among union leadership and staff. Prior to joining the NBWC Tanya worked for the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions and ran their national field operation.
Thomas Shapiro
Thomas Shapiro is the David R. Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy at The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. Professor Shapiro's primary interest is in racial inequality and public policy. He is a leader in the asset development field with a particular focus on closing the racial wealth gap. The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality (2004) was widely reviewed, including by the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and others. The book was named one of the Notable Books of 2004 by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. With Dr. Melvin Oliver, he wrote the award-winning Black Wealth/ White Wealth, which received the 1997 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award from the American Sociological Association. This book also won the 1995 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America named it an Outstanding Book of 1996.