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Speaking Engagements
Through the Virtual Teachers Lounge Karen and her colleagues offer once monthly meetings where teachers can discuss and brainstorm issues. Visit the website VTL4today.com to learn about programs happening in 2024.
JANUARY 2024
Boston School Based Behavioral Health Collaborative Annual Conference (BSBHC)
January 2, 2024
TOPIC: Trauma is the Invisible Backpack We Carry
This is the annual conference for Boston school-based mental health clinicians hosted by the Boston School-Based Behavioral Health Collaborative. All BPS staff, community partner staff, and graduate trainees are invited to join us for a day of learning in community. Presented at Boston University: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsbhc-annual-conference-2024-tickets-774420411297
February 2024
Rocky Neck Art Colony NOW 2024 Exhibition
February 15 through March 31
The Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC) presents its annual member’s exhibition at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and online at RNACexhibitions.com. The exhibition runs from February 15 through March 31, 2024. Karen will be exhibiting.
Don’t Let Them Bury My Story – Book Discussion
February 27 at 7:00 pm (virtual)
Don’t Let Them Bury My Story by Viola Ford Fletcher is one of only two survivors of the Tulsa Massacre. Karen will speak about The Epigenetic Transmission of Trauma before this meeting. The book discussion is presented by the Prince George’s County Lynching Memorial Project. For more information and to sign up for this event, please visit the website https://pgclmp.org which will have the most updated news about the event. Click HERE to buy the book.
MARCH 2024
Rutgers School of Social Work
March 6, 2024
Karen will be teaching a 3-hour course called “Trauma Anniversaries and Why They are So Hard” from 9:30am to 12:30pm. Visit THIS LINK to register.
The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership and Justice and the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions
March 14, 2024 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Karen will present a webinar with Edward K.S. Wang on the topic of their forthcoming book, Mending Education, to be published in the fall of 2024.
2024 NEA Higher Education Conference
March 14-17, 2024
Karen will present a lecture on Developing Leaders for Higher Education on Saturday, March 16, 2024 at the NEA Higher Education Conference in Atlanta, GA.
APRIL 2024
Rutgers GSE and Proctor Institute
April 17-19, 2024
MSI Aspiring Leadership Convening. Karen is serving as a mentor to one of these aspiring MSI leaders. Invitation only event. Meeting to be held in Princeton NJ.
JULY 2024
DKG International Meeting in Washington D.C.
July 9-13, 2024
Karen will be displaying her artwork and volunteering. This event is open to all DKG members.
Mass School Administration Association
July 22, 2024
Karen will be presenting the following topic: Doing Discipline Differently. Location: Franklin, MA. Open to members only.
DECEMBER 2024
Mass School Administration Association
December 5, 2024
Karen will be presenting the following topic with Dr. Ed Wang: Mending Education with Pandemic Positives. Location: Franklin, MA. Open to members only.
JANUARY 2025
Yes We Must Coalition College Team Book Club
January 17 & 31 and February 14
Karen will be presenting with Dr. Ed Wang. Topic: Mending Education with a focus on implementing Pandemic Positives. These events are virtual and open to YWMC members only.