Hosted By: Krystal Lee and J. Robin Moon

Guests: Dawn X. Henderson

This week, we talk to Dr. Dawn X. Henderson from Cohort 2, a research partner of Team Guilford County, North Carolina, that led the project called ‘Using the Structured Dialogue Model as a Model for Violence Prevention and Health Promotion.” We discuss what Dawn has discovered from her years of work in the community, schools, and families. We at IRL have been stressing the critical importance of prioritizing relationships and restorative practices. Dawn agrees, yet she says that it is not the end but the foundation for the end, which is to re-imagine. We discuss what the true human-centered design is, which is to start the design from the edges, to step outside the margins and come into the center, thus moving the margin to the center. Take a listen for so many more nuggets of wisdom and magic!

Dr. Dawn X. Henderson, also known as Professor X, embodies the dreams of her ancestors and the DNA, love, and liberation journeys of Indigenous persons across the African diaspora. She is the founder of WeClaim Research LLC, a mission-driven organization that aims to bring a healing-centered lens to community research and practice. For more than two decades, she has collaborated with K-12 education leaders, nonprofits, and researchers across higher education institutions to create spaces for Black-Indigenous groups to co-create narratives that reimagine their realities and worlds from a place of social resistance, healing, and love.

Mentioned:

* IRL LinkedIn Page

* IRL Promising Practices Podcast Page

* Dawn’s IRL Team Page

* WeClaim Research LLC

* Jonathan Schwabish, Urban Institute

Other Podcast Viewings:

* Community Possibilities

Other Video Viewings:

* Listening to Black Parents

* Freedom Friday

* Centering Black Mommas’ Voices

Dawn’s Selected Publications:

* Black-bodied Resistance, healing and love through community-driven research

* New Book: https://weclaimresearch.com/our-book

* Black Genius Flexin: The Radical Potential of a Dreams Assessment in Participatory Research

* Modeling Community Engagement in an Undergraduate Course

* “It Really Takes a Village”: A Socio-Ecological Model of Resilience for Prevention Among Economically Disadvantaged Ethnic Minority Youth

* Psychology Today: The Trajectory of Race

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