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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As his reputation grew, Williams was recruited by Northwestern University, where he served as assistant dean of diversity and inclusion between 2017 and 2021, and then until 2022 as the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion lead of Northwestern’s Public Health Program.

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Going Back to School Means Increasing Black/Minoritized Family Engagement Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2022, the U.S. We spend an hour with parent/family liaisons and community outreach coordinators who instruct us on the importance of reading at home to overcome vocabulary gaps or how to navigate systems at school. Black families frequently arrive at school to be treated like students themselves.

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Exploring the Roots of Racial Bias

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2022, she co-authored the paper, “Young children form generalized attitudes based on a single encounter with an outgroup member.” “The “She combines that with investigations into once we know how it’s done, how do we prevent that from happening?” The high level question in the paper is how to reduce children’s bias,” said Qian.

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