Registration

Dept. of Social Work, Kutztown University

McFarland Student Union, Room 218

8:00 AM - 8:20 AM

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Opening Remarks

Barth K. Yeboah Ph.D., Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

McFarland Student Union, Room 218

8:20 AM - 8:50 AM

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Welcoming Remarks and Introduction of First Speaker

John Vafeas LSW, DSW, Chair, Department of Social Work, Kutztown University

McFarland Student Union, Room 218

8:50 AM - 8:55 AM

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International Responses to Slavery and its Contemporary Forms: a Survey of Anti-Slavery International Instruments

Victor Essien LLB, LLM, JSD, Fordham Univeristy of Law

McFarland Student Union, Room 218

8:55 AM - 9:35 AM

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Break

9:35 AM - 9:45 AM

The Human Rights and Gender Implications of Slavery: the Power of Local actions to Shape Public Discourse

Melissa Upretti LLM, Rutgers Univeristy

McFarland Student Union, Room 218

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

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Human Trafficking as an Endemic Problem in Ethiopia

Demelash Kassaye MA, Ph.D., Addis Abba Univeristy

McFarland Student Union, Room 218

10:20 AM - 10:50 AM

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Addressing Community Needs in the Lehigh Valley: Human Trafficking and Exploitation

Kim Checkeye
Christi Dominguez MSW
Karen Hinkle BSW
Hasshan Batts MSW, DHSc
Mark Rozzi, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives

McFarland Student Union, Room 218

10:55 AM - 11:40 AM

Lunch

Cub Cafe in the Student Union or Food Court at the Academic Forum

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM

Legislative Fixes and Advocacy: What You Can Do

Mark Rozzi, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives

McFarland Student Union, Room 218

12:50 PM - 1:50 PM

Epistemic Injustice against Communities and an Epistemology of Communitarian Contextualism

Ashraf Adeel MA, Ph.D., Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

McFarland Student Union, Room 218

1:50 PM - 2:20 PM

Break

2:25 PM - 2:35 PM

Economic Injustices within the Penal System

Jessica Brokenshire BSW, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Mary Jo Stere BSW, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

McFarland Student Union, Room 218

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

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Historical Trauma: Leading Liberation to the Silenced Members of the Black Community in the U.S.A.

Taylor Person BSW, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

McFarland Student Union, Room 218

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

Social Work in the Global Environment: Natural Disasters and Human Trafficking

Jazmine Washington, Kutztown University

McFarland Student Union, Room 218

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM

Evaluation and Closing

McFarland Student Union, Room 218

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM