The 2020 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture will be presented virtually on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 4 p.m., hosted by Lynne Woehrle (director, Master of Sustainable Peacebuilding Program, UWM College of Nursing) and Darryl Davidson (director, City of Milwaukee Community Engagement Achievement Collaborative).
The address, “Separate and Not Equal: Racism and Health Equity in Milwaukee,” will be presented on behalf of a collaborative team of five UWM community members and two community partners: Julie Ellis (Nursing), Paru Shah (Political Science), Sandra Millon-Underwood (Nursing), Renee Walker (Public Health), Jeylan Turkoglu (graduate student in Sustainable Peacebuilding), Nicole Brookshire (Brookshire Customized Solutions) and Marques Hogans Sr. (Milwaukee County Office on African American Affairs).
Recipients of a 2019 UWM Collaborative Team Grant, the scholars are working “to create a historical framework for understanding racism in Milwaukee, providing an overview of how the city and county have addressed racism and health over the last 50 years, and how these efforts can best be understood through the lens of nursing, public health, political science, and social justice.”
In their proposal for the Fromkin grant and lectureship, they noted that “the crisis persists” in Milwaukee despite a number of programs and initiatives addressing race-based health disparities. As a “wicked problem”— or an exceedingly complex problem that resists an answer —solving it “requires holistic systems thinking, flexible and inter-sectoral approaches, informed debate, engaged stakeholders and long-term focus.”
This is the 51st annual presentation of the Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture. Established by Morris Fromkin’s family and dedicated to social justice, it is the longest-running lecture series on campus.
This event will be an online presentation. More information and a link to the presentation can be found online.
