Join Cat Brooks and Alecia Harger for conversation and an artistic journey exploring the role trauma plays in the lives of Black people in America. They utilize research, art, performance, multimedia, and Healing Justice modalities to examine the pathways North American Africans chart to surviving trauma, how that trauma interrupts the building of thriving lives and liberation movements, and the healing modalities necessary for the transmutation of that trauma into healing and action. The session includes an excerpt of Brooks’s one-woman show, Tasha, about the in-custody murder of Natasha McKenna inside the Fairfax County Jail in Virginia.

Panelists

Cat Brooks, Abolition Democracy Activist in Residence Fellow, Black Studies Collaboratory, Department of African American Studies, UC Berkeley 

Alecia Harger, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Black Studies Collaboratory, Department of African American Studies, UC Berkeley 

Cedric Williams, Director of Photography