Wednesday, May 18th
8:30 AM to 2:00 PM
Wilson Auditorium, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Maryann Woods-Murphy is a Spanish teacher and diversity educator at Northern Highlands Regional School. Throughout the 1990’s, she taught at Bergen County Academies, where she inaugurated and developed the Multicultural Task Force, a student led organization focused on developing understanding among cultures and justice in society. When she left Bergen Academies in 2003, she established a Multicultural Task Force at NHRHS whose student members are currently working on understanding and stamping out stereotypes within the youth community.
Teens Talk About Racism was created by Theodora Lacey, Teaneck educator; Clinton Lacey, Director of Youth Justice Programs at Vera Institute of Justice, Rori Kanter, Nancy Reardon, and Maryann Woods-Murphy. . The conference provides workshops, discussions and activities that challenge and stimulate teenagers to examine their attitudes and experiences and their potential to become change-makers who promote healthy respect for diversity in their personal lives and in their communities.
Organized and presented by friends of the Dr. Archie Lacey Endowment, administered at Central Unitarian Church in Paramus, NJ, the program is open to students from public and private high schools and houses of worship in Bergen County. The program is offered to students free of charge.
This is the eleventh annual presentation of Teens Talk About Racism. We expect participants from Bergenfield, Dwight Englewood, Dwight Morrow, Emerson, Fort Lee, Hackensack, Lyndhurst, Paramus and Teaneck High Schools and the Bergen County Academies as well as from other interested Bergen County schools.
Conference facilities are donated by the Core Program of Fairleigh Dickinson University. Other costs are underwritten by the Dr. Archie Lacey Endowment and Central Unitarian Church.
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