Johnson-Bailey to speak at Empire State College, Teachers College
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Juanita Johnson-Bailey, director of Women’s Studies and a professor in the College of Education, will give the Boyer Lecture, a keynote address at SUNY Empire State College’s Adult Education Research Conference on Friday, June 1. The conference is available by webcast.
She will also be featured with her co-authors in a panel discussion on her book, The Handbook of Race and Adult Education: A Resources for Dialogue on Racism (Jossey-Bass, 2010), at Teachers College, Columbia University on Monday, June 4.
Johnson-Bailey’s book, Sistahs in College: Making a Way Out of No Way (Krieger Press, 2001), received the Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature in Continuing Higher Education and the Sadie T. Mossell Alexander Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Black Women’s Studies. Johnson- Bailey is also the co-editor of Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women’s Lives (Henry Holt, 1998).