Aoki Center Presents: Dr. Jann Murray-García "Cultural Humility and the Interruption of Scripts of Inequality"_1/21/2020

Cultural Humility and the Interruption of Scripts of Inequality Dr. Jann Murray-García Tuesday, January 21st Cosponsored by the King Hall Black Law Students Association Dr. Jann Murray-García is a recognized community leader in school equity issues, police- community relations, and community responses to hate crimes and hate incidents. She will discuss the work of distinguishing cultural humility from cultural competence. Dr. Murray-García is a pediatrician and a Founding Faculty Member and Associate Health Sciences Clinical Professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis. She received her BA in Human Biology from Stanford University, her MD from UCSF, and completed pediatric residency training at Oakland Children’s Hospital, followed by an MPH from UC Berkeley. With Melanie Tervalon, she co-founded and is writing a textbook on the concept of Cultural Humility, which they distinguish from Cultural Competence. She is widely published in the health sciences literature. In Davis, Dr. Murray-García is a recognized community leader in school equity issues, police-community relations, and community responses to hate crimes and hate incidents. She produced an award-winning documentary (free on YouTube and funded in part by Teaching Tolerance), From The Community To The Classroom: A Youth-Directed Documentary About How Davis Young People Led Their Community Closer To Educational Equity. The film depicts how students learn and live race and racism in Davis, a self-proclaimed “liberal” community with a “high-performing” school district that nonetheless produces marked racial disparities in schooling and discipline outcomes. As a columnist for The Davis Enterprise, she writes about race and child development, school equity issues, parenting for social justice, and local manifestations of our nation’s ongoing challenges in race relations.