The Robert E. Strippel Memorial Fund for Continuing Dialogue on Justice and Human Rights
The Continuing Dialogue on Justice and Human Rights is an annual program devoted to the discussion and debate of local, regional, national, and global human rights issues and concerns coordinated and supported by the Robert E. Strippel Memorial Fund.
Spring 2023 Programming and Initiatives
Leading Through Innovation and Creativity for Transformative Inclusion
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A Social Justice Leadership Approach
Social Justice Leadership is a continuous process of critical self reflection and action. It relies on diverse perspectives to co-create interdependent networks of solidarity; and its goal is to promote human dignity and liberation for a more just, equitable, and sustainable planet. Strippel accomplishes this through dialogue, deep listening, and collective social responsibility.
Pillars of Social Justice Leadership
Continuing Dialogue: a bridging mechanism to advance advocacy, justice and social change.
Deep Listening: as strategy to create a sense of connectedness (belonging) and a just civil society.
Collective Social Responsibility: as a practice to take action for the common good, and building democratic governance and civil society.
Planning Committee
Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, Miami University.
Jacqueline Daugherty, Associate Teaching Professor, Individualized Studies, Miami University. Current Chair of the Robert E. Strippel Memorial Fund Committee.
Janis Dutton, Former Director of Oxford Citizens for Peace and Justice.
Deloris R. Hudson, Alumna, Miami University. Retired Teacher, Member of the National Education Association.
Maricela Lopez, Undergraduate student, Class of 2022, Public Health and History, Miami University.
Kathy McMahom-Klosterman, Professor Emerita of Educational Psychology, Miami University.
Jacqueline Rioja Velarde, Associate Director, Center for American & World Cultures.
About Robert Strippel
About Robert Strippel
The Memorial Fund: A Brief History
The Memorial Fund: A Brief History
Past Programs
2022 Depolarizing Within: Exploring Braver Angels' Methods for Dialogues across Difference
A free workshop to support participants to build skills in:
- How to be more aware of their own "inner polarizer"
- How to be critical without demonizing, dismissing or stereotyping large swaths of the population
- Strategies for intervening constructively in social conversations with like-minded peers when these conversations veer into contempt and ridicule for people who hold other political views.
2021 | (Spring Series) The Responsibility to Act: Health Equity and Social Justice Leadership
- COVID-19 Pandemic and the Overrepresentation of Underrepresented Ohioans - Panel Discussion and Dialogue
- COVID-19 Pandemic: Disparities, Emergency Response and Systemic Changes Across Agencies - Panel Discussion and Dialogue
- COVID-19 Pandemic: Structural factors that impact high risk group experiences - Panel Discussion and Dialogue
2020 | Voting Rights and Access in 2020
2019| Protect the Vote: Voter Suppression and Rights in 2020, lecture | Camille Wimbish, Election Administration Director, Ohio Voice.
2018 | 21st Century Indian Rights: Interrupting the Dominant Narrative, lecture | Judith LeBlanc, Director of the Native Organizers Alliance and Roddenberry Fellow.
2017 | Legacies of loss: Intergenerational Trauma, Coming Together to Build Resistance, lecture | Laura van Dernoot, Director and Founder, The Trauma Stewardship Institute.
2016 | Eradicating the School to Prison Pipeline, lecture | Judith Browne Dianis, co-director, Advancement Project.
Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline: A Call to Action, panel | Judith Browne Dianis, co-director, Advancement Project, panel moderator.
2015 | Our government is broken because the system is fixed: Creating a real democracy movement, lecture | Greg Coleridge, Director, Justice and Empowerment Program, Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee.
2014 | Working Across Race and Age: Building an Inter-generational, Multi-racial Movement, workshops on community organizing | Pam McMichael, Highlander Research and Education Center.
Social Justice Organizing and the Continuing Business of Freedom Summer, lecture | Pam McMichael, Highlander Research and Education Center.
2013 | We the People Not the Corporations, lecture | David Cobb, National Projects Director, Democracy Unlimited.
Implications of Corporate Personhood in Ohio, roundtable discussion with local activists led by Greg Coleridge, American Friends Service Committee.
2012 | Media and Democracy in the Upcoming Upheaval, lecture | Robert McChesney, Gutgsell Endowed Professor, Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Media and Democracy, symposium | Robert McChesney & Jared Ball, associate professor, Department of Communication, Morgan State University and columnist for BlackAgendaReport.com.
2011 | Environmental Justice and the Green-Collar Economy, lecture | Van Jones, civil rights activist; founder of Green for All, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and Color of Change -non-profits organizations.
Economic Practice as Environmental Activism: New Directions in Activism, symposium.
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