Associate Professor
The University of Alabama, United States
Dr. Cassandra Simon is an associate professor at the University of Alabama School of Social Work and is currently Vice President of the Black Faculty and Staff Association. A breast cancer survivor, Dr. Simon served 5 years as national chair of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Breast Cancer Foundation African American National Advisory Council, a member of their Comprehensive Inclusion Committee and their National Multi-cultural Advisory Committee. Dr. Simon is a trained diversity and conflict negotiation leader. She has conducted numerous workshops on culture, multiculturalism, diversity, and social justice, encompassing what is now known as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, with over three decades of teaching and workshop experience in these areas. She has won numerous awards for her teaching, research, service, commitment to students, community engagement activities and commitment to justice and equity, including UA’s Autherine Lucy Foster Award, Buford Peace Award and she was the first African American faculty recipient of the Premier Morris Mayer Award. Dr. Simon is the founding editor of the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship under the Office of Community Affairs. In 2015 she received the key to her hometown for the the first African American valedictorian of the previously al white Lake Charles High School. Her current interests focus on the role and meaning of social justice in education and educational settings, social justice curriculum development, and the implementation of social justice in social work practice at every level.
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Friday, November 11, 2022
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM