Title: On Moral Wounds and the Urgency of Cultivating Moral Imagination
Date: January 20th, 2026
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
In honor of the National Day of Racial Healing: , Dr. Mays Imad will be speaking to how we are all impacted by moral wounds and steps forward in cultivating healing through moral imagination.
Dr. Mays Imad is a neuroscientist, educator, and nationally recognized expert in trauma-informed education. With a background in cellular and clinical neurobiology and translational neuroscience, her work explores how the nervous system processes stress, healing, and human connection. She is the founder of the Trauma-Informed Growth Institute, where she supports institutions and educators in building learning environments rooted in equity, wellbeing, and repair.
Dr. Imad serves as associate professor of biology and equity pedagogy at Connecticut College and is Scholar-in-Residence at The Red House at Georgetown University, where she contributes to the redesign of higher education through human-centered approaches. She is also a Gardner Institute Fellow, a Senior STEM Fellow with the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), a Mind & Life Institute Fellow, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ). Through her work, she invites educators to reimagine classrooms as sanctuaries where science, care, and justice meet.
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For more information, contact: Kelly Schlabach at Kelly.Schlabach@uconn.edu