Social Justice Lunch and Learn Series 2025
Virtual Presentations typically held from September-December.
Understanding the Anti DEI Landscape
October 9, 2025: A PHRC Virtual Lunch & Learn featuring Carla D. Pratt, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Chair in Civil Rights, Race and Justice, College of Law, University of Oklahoma
Intentional Dialogue Bridging the Divide through Conversation
August 21, 2025: A virtual PHRC Lunch & Learn featuring Dr. Ling Dinse, MSW, LSW.
Product of Your Environment
June 27, 2025: A PHRC virtual Lunch & Learn featuring Robert McKenzie, CEO/Founder, SKU Inc., V.P. Marketing and A&R, The Briefcase Group, Investor, CEO/Founder, QEYC.
Beyond the Bell The Power & Promise of OST in Pennsylvania
September 23, 2025: a virtual PHRC Lunch & Learn featuring Contrell Armor, Director, Pennsylvania Statewide Afterschool Youth Development Network (PSAYDN)
Medicaid Matters – Helping Pennsylvanians with Disabilities Have Choice and Achieve Independence
August 11, 2025: a virtual PHRC Lunch & Learn featuring Sec. Valerie A. Arkoosh, MD, MPH, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Human Services
Here to Hear Listening to and working with our LGBTQ+ Communities in PA
June 12, 2025: A PHRC Virtual Lunch & Learn featuring Ashleigh Strange, Executive Director, Governor's Advisory Commission on LGBTQ Affairs
Past events
- "Understanding the Anti DEI Landscape," [Recording] featuring Carla D. Pratt, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Chair in Civil Rights, Race and Justice, College of Law, University of Oklahoma (October 9, 2025)
- "Beyond the Bell The Power & Promise of OST in Pennsylvania," [Recording] featuring Contrell Armor, Director, Pennsylvania Statewide Afterschool Youth Development Network (PSAYDN) (September 23, 2025)
- "Medicaid Matters – Helping Pennsylvanians with Disabilities Have Choice and Achieve Independence," [Recording] featuring Sec. Valerie A. Arkoosh, MD, MPH, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (August 11, 2025)
- "Curiosity in Action: Honoring the Everyday Practices That Support Trauma-Responsive Work," [PDF] featuring Dr. Jessica Reinhardt, Associate Professor of Practice Psychological Studies in Education, Temple University (July 29, 2025)
- "Product of Your Environment," [Recording] featuring Robert McKenzie, CEO/Founder, SKU Inc., V.P. Marketing and A&R, The Briefcase Group, Investor, CEO/Founder, QEYC (June 27, 2025)
- "Here to Hear Listening to and working with our LGBTQ+ Communities in PA," [Recording] featuring Ashleigh Strange, Executive Director, Governor's Advisory Commission on LGBTQ Affairs (June 12, 2025)
- "From Dialogue to Action Community Engagement and Racial Justice as Catalysts for Education Equity [Recording]," featuring Diallo Brooks, Senior Fellow at the Schott Foundation (December 17, 2024)
- "Destroying Dreams: The Settlement that Endangers Minority Homebuyers [Recording]," featuring Bill Flagg, Broker Associate, ERA Queen City Realty (November 20, 2024)
- "Language Equity for Social Change [Recording]," featuring Eliz Nestorov, CGW, MidPenn Legal Services (October 15, 2024)
- "2024 Title IX Controversy: Continued Sex Based Discrimination Protections Under the PHRA[Recording]," featuring Kristina Moon, Senior Staff Attorney, Education Law Center-PA, Philadelphia Office (September 26, 2024)
- "The Power of Questions in Advancing Equity," featuring Dr. Renita Miller [Recording] (December 14, 2023)
- "I Have a Voice, Please Listen," featuring Loretta Claiborne [Recording] (November 15, 2023)
- "Bringing Awareness to Human Trafficking The Modern-Day Slavery: Know, See, Do," featuring Jennifer Foxworthy [Recording] (October 24, 2023)
- "Linguistic Justice in a Monolingual World," featuring Dr. Jamiella Brooks [Recording] (September 26, 2023)
- "The Marriage of Social Justice & Mental Health, [Image]" featuring Candice Norris-Brown & Robert L. Adams, Jr. (May 16, 2023)
- "PHRC LGBTQ Guidance: A Discussion with Chairman Bolstein [PDF]" (November 17, 2021)
- "The Impact of Systemic and Structural Racism on Communities of Color [Recording]: A PHRA Response" (October 6, 2021)
- "Unlawful Harassment: Navigating Harassment Claims and Investigation" [PDF] (June 10, 2021)
- "Reasonable Accommodations and Emotional Support Animals"[Recording] (April 22, 2021)
- "Exploring Our Educational System through a Racial Justice Lens [Recording]" (March 18, 2021)
- "Chaos to Community-Revisiting the Triple Evils [Image]", featuring PHRC Executive Director Chad Dion Lassiter (January 21, 2021)
- The Philadelphia Regional Office on the death of Walter Wallace [Recording] (December 23, 2020)
- Using Policy to Effect Change [Recording] (December 22, 2020)
- Fair Housing Act & Hoarding [Recording] (November 19, 2020)
- What Constitutes a Hate Crime [Recording](October 22, 2020)
- Interrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline (September 24, 2020)
- Reimagining Social Justice Past, Present, and Future Consideration [Recording] (August 17, 2020)
- Unlawful Harassment: Navigating Harassment Claims and Investigations [Recording]
