All Program in Theater junior and senior certificate students are asked to watch the video recording of Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones’ presentation on “Telling Stories: Allegories on ‘Race’, Racism and Anti-Racism” and attend a conversation with activist and theater artist Nissy Aya. Two facilitated conversations will be held on August 27th and September 2nd.
All junior and senior certificate students must sign up to attend ONE of these conversations; RSVP to Joe Fonseca, jfonseca@princeton.edu and watch the video prior to attending. All other students are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Visit our Virtual Events Page for the Zoom IDs to join these conversations; participants will need to log in to this page with Princeton University ID to gain access.
Telling Stories: Allegories on 'Race', Racism and Anti-Racism
Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones lectures as part of Harvard University’s 2019–2020 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Jones shares some of the tools she has developed that will equip both children and adults to name racism, ask “How is racism operating here?” and organize and strategize to act.
ABOUT
NISSY AYA is a Black girl from the Bronx. She and all her younger selves tell stories and tall tales — while helping others to do the same. As a facilitator and cultural worker, we believe in the transformative nature of storytelling, placing those most affected by oppressive systems in the center, and examining how we move forward through healing justice and afrofuturist frameworks. Our creative work reflects those notions while exploring the lines between history and memory, detailing both the absence and presence of love, and giving all the life (and then some) to Black Femmes.
Photo by tony rinaldo
CAMARA PHYLLIS JONES is a family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on naming, measuring, and addressing the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the nation. She is a past president of the American Public Health Association, a senior fellow at the Morehouse School of Medicine, and an adjunct professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
Racism is a system of structuring opportunity and assigning value based on the social interpretation of how one looks (which is what we call “race”), which unfairly disadvantages some individuals and communities, unfairly advantages other individuals and communities, and saps the strength of the whole society through the waste of human resources. While at Radcliffe, Jones is developing tools to inspire, equip, and engage all Americans in a national campaign against racism. For example, her allegories on “race” and racism illuminate topics that are otherwise difficult for many Americans to understand or discuss. Her toolbox will equip both children and adults to name racism, ask “How is racism operating here?” and organize and strategize to act.
Jones earned her BA in molecular biology from Wellesley College, her MD from the Stanford School of Medicine, and both her master of public health and her PhD in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. She also completed residency training in general preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins and in family medicine at the Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center.
