The 2022 Imagining Community Symposium took place Thursday and Friday, April 7-8, 2022, at the Hub at the Dayton Arcade.
UD sponsors included the Roesch Chair in the Social Sciences; the Fitz Center for Leadership in Community; the Office of Diversity and Inclusion; the Human Rights Center; the Ferree Chair of Social Justice; the Department of Art and Design; the ETHOS Center; and the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work.
Sponsors outside UD included CultureWorks, Dayton Metro Library, Sinclair Community College, the Hub Powered by PNC at the Dayton Arcade.
Keynotes
Chicago Footwork: A Lesson on Language and Reclaiming Black Humanity, ShaDawn Battle
Panels
Aging While Black: Realities, Myths, and Opportunities for Community Planning, Antonia Dosik, Donna Kastner, Leigh Sempeles, and Mary E. Tyler
Challenged to Move: Using Humility as Inspiration for Change, Tazeen Ahmed, Amy Hamilton, and Richard Hairston
Community Development via Religious Location: Dayton’s African American Religious Community, Marlese Durr and Geoffrey Owens
Crafting Music Community in The Funk City, Mike Bankhead, Paige Beller, Kevin Carter, Amber Hargett, Brian Johnson, David Payne, Don Thrasher, and Arthur J. Jipson
Envisioning Community Through Artistic Responses, R. Darden Bradshaw
Equity Starts with Literacy, Debra Brathwaite and Joni Watson
Factors Impacting Equitable Park Infrastructure in Dayton, Mackenzie Martin, Grace Oldfield, Andrew Weis, Laura Wilker, and Juliana Vollmer
Finding Peace through Literature: Discussing Complex Topics in Small Communities, Drew Wichterman, Aimee Noel, and Brenda Mahaney
Health Equity Lens: Understanding Dayton and Montgomery County, Tazeen Ahmed, Fabrice Juin, Shannon Nicks, Jessica Saunders, Tiffany Terry, and Nancy McHugh
Home Ownership and the American Dream, Michael Carter, Chad Sloss, and Will Smith
How Unearthing Historic Injustices can Transform Mindsets and Power Change, Nina Carter, Maya Dorsey, and Dakota Pawlicki
IACT in the Community: Human-Centered Design of Enabling Technology for Social Impact in Dayton, Kevin Hallinan, Eric Janz, Brendan Ochs, Ryan Johnston, Patrick Boudinot, and Trent Brown
Latinx Communities as Invisible in Race, Neomi DeAnda, Sam Ortiz, and Ernesto Rosen Velasquez
Montgomery County Equity Leadership Institute, Corinne Brion and Shannon Cox
More than a House: Eviction Rights and Dayton, Kristina Coen, Randy Smith, Addison Caruso, Taylor Burns, Aaron Primm, Shenise Turner-Sloss, and Kass Greenberg
Moving from Environmental Justice to Environmental Equity in the Dayton region, SeMia Bray, Margaret E. Maloney, Brian Martin, Courtney Rutledge, Tom Tappel, Jacie Womack, Leslie King, and Kelly Bohrer
Redlining: Barriers and Boundaries, Trish Burke-Williams, Dair Arrnold, Carol Bonner, Myla Cardona-Jones, and Jacqueline Housel
Redlining Communities from the Academy: Eliminating Discriminatory Community Engagement Practices, Sierra Leone and Castel Sweet
Redlining to Resettlement: Students Navigate Partnership and Convening Conversations around Housing in Dayton, Rachel Carr, Sarah Behnke, Riley Cronin, Patrick Hoody, Elizabeth Kolb, Sophia Locker, Anna Luepke, Claire Pawlecki, Naomi Pearson, Simone Schuller, Sydney Sparks, and Ellie Worpenberg
Social Inequity and Voting, Christine Corba, Dianne Herman, Jacqueline Housel, Jeremy Lisco, and Lucy Anne McKosky
The Role of the Faith Community in Identifying, Challenging and Changing Racism, Rockney Carter, Samuel N. Dorf, Sheherazadh Ishaq, Satish Joseph, Brian Q. Newcomb, Darshan Sehbi, Simran Sehbi, and Crystal Walker
The Sister Neighborhood Project: Finding Equity and Other Unexpected Outcomes of Improbably Pairings, Peter Benkendorf, Henrietta Thompson, and Cynthia Gehrie
Using Human Rights to Pursue Racial Justice in Dayton, Erica Fields, Sabrina Jordan, Mary E. Tyler, Donald Wiggins, and Joel Pruce
West Dayton Park and Green Space Ecosystem: An Examination of Places, People and Power, Karlos Marshall and Moses Mbeseha
What’s Stopping Us? How to Leverage Dayton’s Entrepreneurial Resources for Sustainability, Whitney Barklay, Keanna Daniels, Elizabeth Grubb, and Belinda Matthews Stenson
Plenaries
Removal and Redlining: Resisting Erasure in Indigenous Ohio, Tereza M. Szeghi, Carolina Castoreno, Guy W. Jones, and John N. Low
Shaping a More Equitable Dayton: Perspectives from Daytonian Scholar Activists, Daria Y. Graham, Amaha Sellassie, Faheem Curtis-Khidr, and Furaha Henry-Jones
Presentations
How Community Finds Us: Reframing How We Think about Our Communities, Eric Charlton
Picturing Community: An Artist Talk and Workshop with Photographer Shon Curtis, Shon Curtis
The Intolerable Cruelty of Midwestern Nice, Jason Harrison
Symposium Programs
2022 Imagining Community Symposium Program, University of Dayton
