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From Crisis to Solutions: Global Conference Charts New Course for Urban Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

HBCU students not only attended this year’s conference, but they participated in a service project and built bookshelves and delivered over 450 books to a local elementary school in Cancun that did not have a library until last week. That local community outreach in the host country of the conference, Lewis added, is critically important. “We

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Dr. Toby S. Jenkins, University of South Carolina

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jenkins other community outreach initiatives won awards from the President of the United States and the Governor of Maryland. She is a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institutions Center for Community Wellbeing and a faculty trainer with the University of Southern Californias Race & Equity Center.