Workshops & Speaking Engagements
Drawing from an extensive scientific knowledge base, Dr. Hughes conducts workshops to provide tools and strategies for parents, teachers, and other service providers who work with ethnically diverse youth to help them understand the race-related issues that youth encounter in their daily lives and strategies for approaching them.
Interactive workshops provide parents and teens with the opportunity to reflect on and become intentional about their experiences in families, schools, and communities.
Common Workshop Topics
How children learn race
What are the natural ways that children learn about race?
Talking to children about race
How can parents promote critical consciousness and anti-racism in their children?
What to expect from teens
What can parents expect to experience in raising adolescents and what should you worry/not worry about?
How to understand your child’s school and classroom racial climate
What indicators can administrators, teachers, parents, and students use to evaluate the racial climate of schools and classrooms?
Previous Workshops & Speaking Engagements
Talk at the National Academy of Sciences
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine was charged in 2019 to provide an evidence-based report that: (a) examines the neurobiological and socio-behavioral science of adolescent development, and (b) explores how this knowledge can be applied to institutions and systems so that adolescent well-being, resilience, and development are promoted and that systems address structural barriers and inequalities in opportunity and access.
Talking to Children about Racism with Dr. Diane Hughes & the Community Coalition on Race
Dr. Diane Hughes presented on how to break the cycle of racism at home. She gave practical advice on how to talk with kids about painful current events in age appropriate ways, and how to incorporate talk about and action against racism at home.
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