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ABOUT US

 

 

Theodoric (Ted) Manley, Jr. is currently chair of the Difficult Dialogues Committee and associate professor of sociology at DePaul University. He is committed to applied change and social justice practices in the areas of city and neighborhood/community relations, global race, class, gender, and ethnic relations and appropriate technology and research in "developed" and "developing" countries.

Alejandro Acierto is a student organizer and activist that has participated in several feminst, anti-racist, and labor related actions both on and off campus. He is currently a fifth year double music major and Asian American Studies minor who is particularly interested in the hegemonic uses of language upon identities of historically marginalized groups, particularly in ethnic and racial formations as well as the use of the arts as a mechanism for social change and action.

Kevin Collins is a priest and member of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians) serving in the Office of Institutional Diversity & Equity. His background is theological ethics and praxis. He focuses on religious diversity and inter-religious dialogue, particularly as these relate in practice to the mission and life of a Catholic university.


Darrell Moore is a member of the philosophy department and directs the African & Black Diaspora Studies Program. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of political philosophy, aesthetics, and race theory. He is interested in the ways in which philosophy's project of modernity contributed to the idea of race as well as the ways in which race is at work in modern and contemporary political theory and aesthetics. He is also interested in the tensions created by the confluence of Black diasporic thought with the major texts, arguments, and cultural practices of modern political and aesthetic theories.

Ann Russois a faculty member and director of Women's and Gender Studies at DePaul. Her work focuses on individual and collective resistance to abuse, mistreatment, and violence, both interpersonal and state violence, that is fueled and perpetrated by interlocking systems of sexism, racism and white supremacy, homophobia, and xenophobia.
She is interested in projects that cultivate community accountability for oppression and violence.

Traci Schlesinger studies the intersections between criminal justice policies and processing, mass incarceration, and the production and maintenance of White Supremacy in the post civil rights United States. Outside of her teaching and research, she has done a variety of queer, feminist, and anti-racist activism; currently, she is intimately involved with Chicago Books to Women in Prison.

Erin Tinnon is a graduate student in the Women’s and Gender Studies program. She is the Anti-Violence Peer Education Coordinator at DePaul, and is working to address issues of violence, oppression, and hate speech through engagement with models of community accountability. In addition to her commitment to anti-violence work that engages multiple systems of interlocking oppressions on campus, she is also a committed activist and organizer in the city of Chicago.


"ABOUT US" -- A Note
The college/university campus climate throughout the United States and at DePaul University has become uncomfortable as hate crimes and hate speech has increased with little regard for the victims. As a result, there are members of the Difficult Dialogues Committee who have chosen not to name themselves for their safety and because of their fear of being targeted as 'liberal,' 'progressive,' 'radical,' 'militant,' and/or 'communist' because of their views on issues related to Difficult Dialogues.