Dr. Riana Elyse Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health. She earned her PhD in Clinical and Community Psychology at the University of Virginia and completed a Clinical and Community Psychology Residency at Yale University's School of Medicine and a Fellowship in Applied Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. On the whole, Dr.
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Dr. Riana Elyse Anderson
Marc H. Morial
Marc H. Morial is the President and CEO of the National Urban League. Over the last 15 years, Marc has expanded the reach of our services by empowering our affiliate movement and created a framework to create policies that serve communities of color.
BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS – THE END OF STRUCTURAL RACISM
Critics and activists raised red flags for decades, but it was the coronavirus pandemic that opened the entire nation’s eyes to the structural racism embedded in America’s institutions. In the wake of COVID-19's devastation, there is no hiding chronic inequalities in healthcare delivery, the fragility of the social safety net, or how entrenched gaps in income and employment afflict communities of color. But the flip side of awareness is opportunity.
Welcome Remarks With Marc H. Morial
“It isn't one pandemic we face, but three," says National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial. Systemic, structural racism, Morial argues, is the cause of highly disproportionate COVID-related deaths in Black and Brown communities, as well as crippling job loss concentrated in front-line, essential industries. At the national level and in communities across the country, the Urban League combats the toll suffered by people of color and leads a progressive path forward.
