Goucher College’s Peace Studies Program is hosting a three-part “What Works: Best Practices in Peacebuilding” series. These presentations will center on the practical aspects of collaboration, cooperation, research, analysis, and communication as they relate to peacebuilding.
All talks are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Anthony Harris ’13 at anhar001@mail.goucher.edu.
Marisela B. Gomez, community activist, author, public health professional, and physician scientist
Monday, March 11
7 p.m.
Batza Room, Athenaeum
Gomez received a B.S. and M.S. from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque as well as a Ph.D., M.D., and M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins University. She spent 17 years as an activist/researcher and participant/observer in East Baltimore during and after training at the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Public Health. Past and current writings address social determinants and health, social capital and urban health, disparities in mental health care in incarcerated populations, disparities in substance use treatment, mental health care in the primary health care setting, community organizing and development, and mindfulness practices in organizing.
Gardnel Carter, Director of Safe Streets East
Monday, April 1
7 p.m.
Heubeck Multipurpose Room
Safe Streets was implemented in 2007 by the Health Department and the Living Classrooms Foundation in two high-crime neighborhoods in East Baltimore, McElderry Park and Ellwood Park, and by the Health Department and Communities to Improve Lives in Southwest Baltimore’s Union Square. The program has five core components: the use of surveillance data to identify communities with high rates of youth gun violence, development of a community coalition, a visible campaign of intolerance to gun violence, direct outreach to high-risk youth, and conflict intervention and mediation.
Erica L. Green, Reporter for The Baltimore Sun
Sunday, April 14
7 p.m.
Van Meter B10
Erica L. Green is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun who has covered the Baltimore City Public School System since 2010. She graduated from Goucher College in 2007, where she majored in communications and minored in political science and Spanish. She earned a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in 2008. While obtaining her master’s in Chicago, she covered crime for The Chicago Sun-Times. After moving back to Maryland in 2009, Green covered city government in Frederick, MD, for about one year before going to work for her hometown newspaper.