“Toxic Ivory Towers: The Health Consequences of Work Stress on the Health of Underrepresented Minority Faculty”, a talk by Ruth Zambrana, Professor, Women’s Studies/Director, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity/Adjunct Professor, Family Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore – School of Medicine.
Thursday, April 19, 12:30-2:00pm, PRLACC/Student Union-4th floor
Lunch will be served.
Zambrana’s scholarship applies a critical intersectional lens to structural inequality and racial, Hispanic ethnicity, and gender inequities in population health and higher education trajectories. She is the recipient of numerous awards, the most recent from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Expanding the Bench program initiative, which aims to translate new findings on URM faculty barriers and challenges into higher education policies to enhance retention and promotion.
Sponsored by:
El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies
Neag Department of Educational Leadership
Puerto Rican and Latin American Cultural Center (PRLACC)
Sociology Department
If you require special accommodations, please contact elinstituto at elinstituto@uconn.edu by April 17.
For more information, contact: El Instituto at elinstituto@uconn.edu