Location: Colony Ballroom, STAMP Union, UMD
All campuses are invited to join this University System of Maryland (USM)-wide Civic and Health Equity Keynote with Dr. Trinidad Jackson hosted by the University of Maryland School of Public Health.
Our ecology is saturated with violence, but are we - as humans - being equipped to recognize it in all it's forms and liberate ourselves from it?
Come prepared to reflect and discuss critical actions that both inform and impact the trajectory of our lived experiences as community members and purveyors of public health.
This event is in person and livestream.
Dr. Trinidad Jackson is hails from St. Louis, MO, and currently resides in Louisville, KY. A proud HBCU undergraduate alum, Dr. Jackson attended Kentucky State University focusing on psychology and biology. He went on to obtain master degrees in clinical psychology (Morehead State) and public health (University of Louisville). As a mental health professional, he provided therapy to community members from the most marginalized neighborhoods in Louisville. He put his public health training to use in Nashville, Tennessee as he managed CDC-funded chronic disease prevention policy projects with community members and organizations, created health equity initiatives with Metro Nashville Public Health Department executive leadership, and co-led fatherhood initiatives supported by the Administration for Children and Families. Dr. Jackson has also led participatory teaching, research, and policy change initiatives across multiple communities in Ghana, West Africa.
In November 2014, the fight for collective liberation summoned Dr. Jackson’s mind, body, and spirit back to St. Louis as a disruptor and social movement scientist during the Ferguson Uprising. Upon returning to Louisville in 2015, he led community-based participatory research that explored power, oppression, and the need for critical consciousness and action through lenses of justice, safety, hope, and racial equity; the orientation to structural violence within these research initiatives led Dr. Jackson and his colleagues to secure designation as a CDC Center of Excellence for violence prevention, which centered social justice youth development. His work has been disseminated at local, national, and international levels through academic publications, presentations, and art mediums. He is currently the Assistant Dean for Culture and Liberation and an Assistant Professor in Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Louisville; he also holds a joint appointment as a Senior Advisor within Kentucky’s State Government. Dr. Jackson has been awarded with university, local, state, and federal-level citations for his dedication to community, research, service, and leadership.