ONLINE: Social Workers Confronting Racial Injustice

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Giovanni Solis

Patrisse Cullors is the author of "When They Call You a Terrorist" and co-creator of the #blacklivesmatter hashtag and movement.

press release:  The UW-Madison Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work to host annual Social Workers Confronting Racial Injustice Conference. We continue our focus on racial injustice and our role as social workers from our past conferences with this year’s format: online and free. Almost five-thousand people have registered.

February 5, 11:45am-3:15pm; February 12, 11:45am-3:15 pm 

• Keynote address with Patrisse Cullors--social activist, best-selling author of When They Call you a Terrorist & co-creator of the viral twitter hashtag and movement, #blacklivesmatter. 
• Plenary panel: Reimagining a Black Feminist Social Work with local leaders. 
• A dozen breakout presentations focusing on anti-racist and abolitionist ideas in social work. 
• Nearly 5,000 people from across Wisconsin and the country have registered. 
• Free CEUs provided social workers. 

This year, we are also an Institutional Supporter of the Social Work, White Supremacy and Racial Justice Symposium (a national series developed by schools of social work at the University of Houston, UCLA, Howard University, and Arizona State).