The SUNY Oswego Gender and Women's Studies Program will host a panel discussion on "The Intersections of Reproductive Justice" from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 29, in the Marano Campus Center auditorium, room 132.
Sally Roesch Wagner, Executive Director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, will explore the term "reproductive justice" through a conversation with panelists on how experiences with reproductive justice differ based on race, income and gender identity among other social locations.
Panelists include Mary Stanley, social science professor at Syracuse University and a ceramicist/sculptor; Adeanna Tazell, program director of Healthy Baby Network in Rochester; and Danielle O'Brien, Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES special education principal.
This event is sponsored by the Gender and Women's Studies program, Psychology Department, Native American Studies, Latin & Latin American Studies, and African/African-American Studies.
Wagner earned one of the first U.S. women’s studies doctorates, and is a founder of one of the first college-level women’s studies programs (California State University Sacramento). She teaches in Syracuse University’s Honors Program. Roesch Wagner is the founder and director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, which is dedicated to educating current and future generations about Gage’s work and its power to drive contemporary social change. Additionally, her book "The Women's Suffrage Movement" (Penguin Classics, 2019) contains a forward by Gloria Steinem.
Tazell has a degree from Buffalo State University where she is a proud graduate of the Educational Opportunity Program. She also has a master’s in public administration and is currently working on her Ed.D. from St. John Fisher University. She works for a New York State-funded community-based program that was designed to improve the overall health and well-being of birthing people and their families and improve health outcomes. The PICHC (Perinatal Infant Community Health Collaborative) program works collaboratively with the community to reduce racial, ethnic and economic disparities in health outcomes and address the factors that affect racial and ethnic disparities. Tazell has a passion for maternal health, especially the black maternal health crisis.
O’Brien has spent her career working to advocate and empower students with disabilities. She has earned degrees from SUNY Fredonia, SUNY Cortland, SUNY Oswego and St. John Fisher University. In addition to her position with Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES, in her spare time, O’Brien enjoys outdoor activities and quality time with her pets, 13-year-old triplets and her partner.
A social science professor at SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Stanley's scholarship, research and teaching explore evolving conceptualizations of citizenship in liberal democracies, particularly in the U.S., with a focus on participatory democracy and the role of dialogue in addressing conflict. In 2006, she became an arts activist. Stanley continued pursuing her interest in democratic citizenship by understanding the role of the arts in supporting cultural diversity and democratic political culture. In 2008, she began studying ceramics and sculpture at Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts. She is now an award-winning working artist whose work has been exhibited locally, regionally, nationally and online, internationally. Her ceramic sculpture examines the complicated nature of identity in pluralistic democracies. She continues to participate in a variety of dialogue groups.
-- Submitted by the Gender and Women's Studies Program