Halmos Faculty Presents on Using Dialogues for Social Justice

McKay

Judith McKay, J.D., Ph.D., director of the doctoral program, and faculty in the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies (DCRS) in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS), presented at the Association for Graduate Liberal Programs Annual Conference held virtually.  The conference theme was Unmute Yourself: Voice, Representation, Power. McKay’s presentation was entitled, “Using Dialogues to Build a Socially Just Community.”

McKay is the faculty adviser to the Social Justice Roundtable and works with students in the community through Community Resolution Services, a practicum and volunteer site for DCRS. Community Resolution Services hosts Story Café, We Love our Families series, The Women’s Roundtable, and is involved in offering workshops for the county’s Crisis Intervention Teams, and other events for community groups and organizations.

McKay’s scholarly interests include social justice, conflict coaching, strategic community planning, and violence prevention and intervention in family, neighborhood, and organizational conflicts.  For more information about Community Resolution Services or the Social Justice Roundtable, please contact McKay at mckayj@nova.edu.

Posted 02/13/22