Longmire-Avital, associate professor of psychology and director of the Black Lumen Project, was a panelist for a national MLK Day event and presented research at AAC&U conference
For the second consecutive year, Elon Associate Professor of psychology Buffie Longmire-Avital served as a featured panelist for the Jewish Federation of North America MLK program. The event titled, , was held on Monday, Jan 17 in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Last year, the program began as one of the official Biden-Harris Presidential Inauguration Week events. Longmire-Avital once again joined fellow presenters, Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein and Nate Looney in a discussion of MLK and the Jewish involvement in the civil rights movement.
Dr. Longmire-Avital also presented her work on critical mentoring and the model she developed at the Association of American Colleges and Universities annual meeting. Longmire-Avital and colleagues gave a joint talk titled, Equity by Design: Overhauling Undergraduate Research Programs and Practices to Center Racial Equity. The presentation highlighted barriers and best practices to creating sustainable equity in 消消犯 research.