In 2021, we launched our five-year Strategic Plan for Antiracism (SPAR). With a clearly defined set of goals and actions, the plan focuses on embedding antiracism, equity, and inclusion into our school’s policies, practices, and decisions.
Join us for this special event where we will celebrate the progress we have made as a school over the past two years and reinforce our commitment towards antiracism. All faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members are encouraged to attend.
Agenda
1-1:30 p.m. Registration opens | music and networking
1:30-2:15 p.m. Welcome & Strategic Plan for Antiracism (SPAR) updates
2:15-3:30 p.m. Pecha Kucha talks (see description below)
3:30-3:45 p.m. Closing remarks
3:45-4:30 p.m. Community celebration | music, refreshments, and networking with
SPH colleagues
Pecha Kucha Presentations
- Kumi Smith, Engaging all sides: Bringing together Community and Government around Homelessness
- Elena Cattaneo, Haley Brahmbhatt, Hailey Frye, and Erin Shen, Centering in the margins: advancing health equity in pediatric palliative care
- Ifrah Abshir, When Medicine Isn’t Enough: The Power of Community in Navigating the Undiagnosed
- Colin Planalp, Vulnerable but Forgotten: How Minnesota’s COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Left Some Groups Behind
- Chela Vázquez, Health and safety trainings for immigrant dairy workers
- Helen Parsons, Equity in Access to Cancer Care for Adolescents and Young Adults with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
- Feather LaRoche, Indigenous Health is Public Health
- Marta Shore, Beyond career panels: promoting Biostatistics in high schools
On the agenda for this event are Pecha Kucha (Japanese word for chit-chat) talks – a fast-paced, structured session that showcases how SPH faculty, staff, students, and alumni advance antiracism and health equity. Topics can be related to your research, community engagement, experiential learning, professional interests, SPAR initiatives, or avocations, and are a great way to become more familiar with colleagues and their experiences and interests.
Come and learn something new about your amazing School of Public Health colleagues!
The presenter has exactly 5 minutes, using exactly 20 PowerPoint slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. After one presentation is finished, the next one will begin right away.
- Plan your talk by developing your presentation topic and sketching out ideas. Use this resource to get started: How to create a Pecha Kucha talk and other resources (UMN Canvas site).
- Create and practice your talk on this slide template. Presentations must have 20 slides that auto advance every 15 seconds. Talk length is 5 minutes.
- We’ll follow up with next steps if you’re selected as a speaker; we will host 1-2 practice sessions to help you create and practice your presentation.
One popular example of Pecha Kucha talks is Ignite Minneapolis, whose motto captures the spirit of this event: “Enlighten us, but make it quick.” Get inspired by watching Ignite videos from across the nation.
Resources:
- How to create a Pecha Kucha talk and other resources (UMN Canvas site)
- You submit your talk idea by September 1.
You’ve got a great idea for a talk? Wonderful. Submit your talk proposal via our online form. Write out as many specifics as you can. We realize you haven’t written the whole thing yet, so give us the thesis and the main highlights. Please submit your proposal by Friday, September 1. - We review all submissions
Our event planning team will carefully review every submission, score them, rank them, and select 8-10 talk ideas. - Everyone gets a notification
By September 6, the selected speakers and all non-selected submitters are notified. - Three weeks to craft your talk
If your talk is selected, you’ll have three weeks to compose your talk, create your slide deck, and practice practice practice. - Deck deadline
You’ll send us your slide deck by September 27. We need this time to set up our primary presentation files for the show, so this deadline is important. - Showtime!
On the day of the event, you’ll arrive at least an hour prior to showtime. Our event manager will greet you, show you around the backstage area, and ensure you’re comfortable and ready to do your thing.
