Join us for this moderated Town Hall style Zoom event.
It’s been a challenging year, with the pace and intensity of events constantly escalating. As clinicians, we hold this for our clients, creating space for them to process their trauma, fear, disbelief and despair. As a community, we also need space to process. To address this, we are pleased to offer this gathering designed to go beyond the exchanges of our listserv, where we are so good at supporting each other in our professional needs, and offer a forum to share our thoughts, feelings and responses to the challenges of our times. If this is well received, it will be the first of several to allow us to dive deeper into topics that are timely and relevant to our membership.
For our educational and interactive portion of the Town Hall, Dr. John Stover will present “Understanding Modern Societal Challenges thru a Local Lens”. Recently featured in both a Politico interview and an NPR article, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns identified “three viruses” plaguing America: “a year-old COVID-19 virus, …a 402-year-old virus of white supremacy, of racial injustice. … an age-old human virus of misinformation, of paranoia, of conspiracies.”
National crises have local impacts, so in this RPA Town Hall we’ll engage in interactive activities and respectful discussions with SRJC Sociologist John Stover, PhD. Dr. John will provide us with sociological tools as we continue to navigate the ongoing complexities of everyday racism, COVID-19 surges, and our political divide.
We hope you’ll join us in this opportunity for building understanding and empathy, and Dr. John is looking forward to meeting and working with you all!
Meet our Moderator: John Stover, PhD
Prior to joining Santa Rosa Junior College at Petaluma in 2017 as their first full-time Sociologist, John A. Stover III, PhD, taught in the San Mateo Community College District, the University of San Francisco, and San Francisco State University, among other colleges and universities. In his classrooms Dr. John, as he is known among his students, delivers collaborative, respectful learning environments of dialogue, interaction, and critical thinking across a diversity of student identities. John loves teaching at all levels and has delivered well-received development opportunities on the topics of deconstructing white privilege, promoting strong student engagement pedagogies, and dismantling toxic masculinities. John is a first generation college graduate, earned his MA and PhD from Loyola University Chicago, and published both his thesis and an excerpt from his dissertation. John has been a Californian since 1994, been teaching since 2005, and been swimming, running, reading, and loving pop culture for as long as he can remember. He was not only recently recommended for tenure but also elected as Executive Secretary of the SRJC Academic Senate.