Days of Dialogue
with Keynote Speakers
Cassandra Lane and Dr. Bruce Perry
The Impact of Racism on Children’s Mental Health
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. PDT | Zoom
YWCA Days of Dialogue & Racial Healing Circles provide opportunities for members from diverse communities to participate in conversations that deepen their understanding about the impacts of racism and engage in a process that will facilitate healing from racial trauma and support the development of anti-racism.
YWCA GLA has partnered with the Institute for Nonviolence to create spaces of healing, reconciliation, collaboration, and mutual progress to end racism. The communities we serve reflect the rich, diverse, and beautiful fabric of Los Angeles and we stand committed to working together to support a process through which healing begins and positive change is sustained. Our organizations were built upon the mission of strengthening communities and as history has demonstrated, it is during challenging times that those we serve need us the most.
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About Cassandra Lane
Cassandra Lane is Editor in Chief of the award-winning L.A. Parent magazine and author of “We Are Bridges: A Memoir,” a 2021 NPR book of the year.
Before joining L.A. Parent in 2017, she was community relations manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and has also served as a newspaper reporter, high school English and journalism teacher, college application advisor and senior writer for a nonprofit committed to improving the quality of early care and education for L.A. County children.
Her stories have appeared in the New York Times, L.A. Times and a variety of other newspapers, magazines and anthologies. She has a BA in journalism and an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University and lives with her husband and teen son in South L.A.
About Dr. Bruce Perry, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Perry is the Principal of the Neurosequential Network and a Professor (Adjunct) at the School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria Australia.
Over the last thirty years, Dr. Perry has been an active teacher, clinician and researcher in children’s mental health and the neurosciences holding a variety of academic positions. His work on the impact of abuse, neglect and trauma on the developing brain has impacted clinical practice, programs and policy across the world. Dr. Perry is the author, with Maia Szalavitz, of The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog, a bestselling book based on his work with maltreated children and Born For Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered. Dr. Perry's most recent book, What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (2021), co-authored with Oprah Winfrey, has been translated into 26 languages and has been on the New York Times Bestseller list for over 100 weeks after becoming #1 on the list in April of 2021.