Taking Action on Racism & Human Rights
Friday, November 13, 2020
1:00 PM-2:00 PM
The department of Health Management and Policy and the Center
for Hunger-Free Communities at Dornsife presents Gay McDougall, JD, LLM,
Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Leitner Center for International Law and
Justice at Fordham Law School.
McDougall will present a seminar on her work to engage the
international community and the United Nations on systemic racism and police
brutality in the U.S. She worked with the families of George Floyd, Breonna
Taylor, Michael Brown, and Philando Castile along with hundreds of rights
groups to call for a special session within the United Nations to bring the U.S.
under international scrutiny, and to reignite the calls for reparations and
systemic change. McDougall is a recipient of the prestigious
MacArthur “Genius” Award and has spent her career working on issues of race,
gender, and economic justice in the global context. She also served as a member
of the UN Committee on the Elimination of racial Discrimination.
To RSVP, contact Ali Rivera ac324@drexel.edu and Maya
Stallings at ms4948@drexel.edu.