Thursday, August 29, 8:00-9:30PM EDT / 5:00-6:30PM PDT / 6:00PM-7:30PM MDT / Friday, August 30, 1:00-2:30AM BST & CMT / 2:00-3:30AM CEST / 3:00-4:30AM IDT & UTC+1
Commemorating James Baldwin’s Centenary, this International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma webinar is held between the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition (23 August) and the United Nations International Day for People of African Descent (31 August). Multidisciplinary panelists will review and discuss some of the multigenerational ruptures in ICMGLT’s 2024 Repairer Awardee Steve Driffin’s play Death By A Thousand Cuts: A Requiem for Black and Brown Men.
Steve Driffin
Steve Driffin is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright whose work has captivated audiences in Connecticut and New York City. A self-taught artist, Steve’s theatrical journey began on New Haven’s notorious street corners, focusing on love, redemption, and social issues. In 2022, he founded M.A.D. Content Productions, LLC and serves as the Director of Programs at the Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology in New Haven, CT.
Siobhan Carter-David
Siobhan Carter-David is Associate Professor in the Department of History and co-director of Africana Studies at Southern Connecticut State University. She has worked with museum curators, special collection curators, photographers and independent artists on projects involving various facets of African American and broad-based United States cultural history. She is author of several articles on fashion and print culture, and is completing her book manuscript, Issuing the Black Wardrobe: Magazines and Fashion Post-Soul.
Dr. Kenneth D. Waters
Dr. Kenneth D. Waters is a thought leader, experienced educator, and executive coach, who utilizes his systems thinking approach to advance organizational efficiency to help leaders foster work environments that operate equitably and inclusively. Dr. Waters believes that the true essence of an equitable and inclusive environment is one where each person, despite his or her background or status, has the same access as his or her peers.
James Gooden
James Gooden is a performer known for his rich voice and also for his civil rights advocacy. National appearances include I Colori dell’Opera, Houston Ebony Opera Guild, Voices of Houston, Fort Worth Opera, Houston Symphony, and Dallas Symphony. A cousin of Coretta Scott King, with social justice is in his DNA, he serves as Treasurer of the National Association of Negro Musicians and is an active member of the NAACP.
Dr. Yael Danieli
A Clinical psychologist, traumatologist, victimologist and psychohistorian, Dr. Danieli is Founder, Executive Director and Senior Representative to the United Nations of the International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma (ICMGLT); Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children and Past-President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
