Feb 16 2023

The Black Scholar Series: Dr. Lisa Bowleg (Special Session)

If You Had Told Me Just Two Years Ago that I Would Become an Entrepreneur, I Would Have Called You Crazy

February 16, 2023

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM America/Chicago

Location

Virtual

Zoom Registration

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After years of fielding requests to speak about intersectionality, write articles about intersectionality, or collaborate on intersectionality-related grant proposals, in July 2021, I formed a company named after my beloved grandmother (MRGD Consulting LLC), and launched the Intersectionality Training Institute (www.intersectionalitytraining.org). The Intersectionality Training Institute is an institute dedicated to training students, researchers, and practitioners how to apply intersectionality to health equity research, policy, and practice with fidelity to core tenets of intersectionality. This session will focus on the path that led to my becoming an entrepreneur after 24 relatively contented years as a professor. In the last two years, my professional life has morphed from the academy to the world of entrepreneurship in exciting ways that I could not have fathomed just a couple of years ago. In sharing this experience, I will talk about some of the important life lessons I’ve learned from this journey about:

  • How obstacles in our way can become the way;
  • The importance of trusting your gut;
  • Not being afraid to fail;
  • Being fearful and doing it anyway;
  • Envisioning a world far beyond the one that you currently inhabit;
  • The miracles of developing a ride or die team;
  • The joys of being outside of your comfort zone; and
  • Embracing the unconventional path

Zoom Auto Transcription is provided. If you require a Live Transcriptionist, please email Jessica Shaw (jlshaw2@uic.edu) or Amanda Roy (alroy28@uic.edu).

Contact

Dr. Jessica Shaw
jlshaw2@uic.edu

Date posted

Dec 1, 2022

Date updated

Jan 24, 2023

Speakers

Dr. Lisa Bowleg | A leading scholar of the application of intersectionality to social and behavioral science health research, is Professor of Applied Social Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the George Washington University(GW), and a Co-Director of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Core of the DC Center for AIDS Research (DC CFAR).

Lisa Bowleg, PhD, MA, a leading scholar of the application of intersectionality to social and behavioral science health research, is Professor of Applied Social Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the George Washington University (GW), and a Co-Director of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Core of the DC Center for AIDS Research (DC CFAR). She is also the Founder and President of the Intersectionality Training Institute (www.intersectionalitytraining.org). Informed by intersectionality and critical race theory, her mixed methods research projects examine the effects of social-structural stressors (e.g., unemployment, incarceration, police brutality), intersectional stigma, and protective factors on the health of Black men at diverse intersections of socioeconomic status and sexuality. She has served as a principal investigator (PI) or joint PI of seven National Institutes of Health-funded projects and the WK Kellogg Foundation-funded, Intersectionality Toolkit Project. She is an associate editor at the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH)and the editor of AJPH’s Perspectives from the Social Sciences section. In May 2021, GW awarded her its Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Scholarship (Research). In February 2022, Health, Education and Behavior, the journal of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE),awarded her the 2021 Lawrence W. Green Paper of the Year Award in honor of her article, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”: Ten Critical Lessons for Black and Other Health Equity Researchers of Color.”