Stacey Patton Community Event
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Diboll Gallery on Tulane’s Uptown Campus
Join us for a community event to talk about Corporal Punishment and Cultural Responsiveness with Dr. Stacey Patton. Dr. Stacey Patton reports on issues of child welfare, race relations, and higher education as a nationally-recognized child advocate. She works as an intermediary between social service and law enforcement agencies seeking to improve services to communities of color. Please join us for her workshop where she will speak on her own experience and expertise in the field of child advocacy with cultural responsiveness.
 
Monday, February 10th
 
11:30am to 2pm
 
Diboll Gallery on Tulane’s Uptown Campus (43 Newcomb Pl. 3rd Floor)
 
Event is free and open to the public.
 

Dr. Stacey Patton is an award-winning journalist, author, historian and nationally recognized child advocate whose research focuses on the intersections of race and parenting in American life, child welfare issues, education, corporal punishment in homes and schools, and the foster care and school-to-prison pipelines.  Her writings on race, culture, higher education, and child welfare issues have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC News, Al Jazeera, TheRoot.com, NewsOne, Madame Noire, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.  She has appeared on ABC News, CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, and Democracy Now.  

Dr. Patton is the author of That Mean Old Yesterday, Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America, and the forthcoming books, Strung Up: The Lynching of Black Children in Jim Crow America, and Not My Cat, a children's story.  She is also the creator of a forthcoming 3-D medical animation and child abuse prevention app called "When You Hit Me."