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Name: Black History Month - Dr. Aiesha TurmanDate: February 16, 2023Time: 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM PSTWebsite: http://pencol.eduEvent Description:February 16, 12:30 pm, Zoom
Peninsula College is honored to welcome Dr. Aiesha Turman to the virtual stage on February 16, at 12:30 pm. Dr. Turman will be Zooming-in from NYC.
Educator, writer, cultural producer, and interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Turman will offer a program titled "Technologies of Protest: Towards a Black Femme Afrofuture" followed by a dialogue.
Dr. Turman was featured on the nationally-renowned Story Corps radio program. She has been teaching for more than two decades, beginning in after school programs, then museums and cultural institutions. She has been a formal high school teacher as well as a college professor. She is "well-versed in pedagogical practices that support students/participants in recognizing their roles as knowledge bearers and culture keepers."
In 2010, she founded The Black Girl Project after writing, directing, and producing the award-winning documentary of the same name. After creating and facilitating Black woman and-femme centered programs throughout the mid-Atlantic region, organizing an annual Sisterhood Summit for 7 seasons, which hosted facilitators and educators from across the country, and served over 3,000 participants.
Her website notes that "she has shifted gears (after resting) and is committed to a social art and education practice…For Black women and girls who need to remember who they are when the acculturation and lies get to be too much."
Dr. Turman is currently serving as faculty in the Africana Studies Department of Nassau Community College. Please visit her website to learn more here: www.aieshaturman.com
Join Zoom meeting at https://pencol-edu.zoom.us/j/89779530051
Meeting ID: 897 7953 0051.
“Thank you to all the college leaders who are working hard to bring awareness and education to our community around Black History,” PC President Suzy Ames said. “This is a critical time in our nation’s history, and a time for everyone to listen, learn and engage.”