DR. JOY EXPERIENCE
Events and Appearances
FEBRUARY 2025
A collaboration with The Institute for Mastery and Integration (IMI) for their FREE community event, Healing Multigenerational Trauma: Community Conversations with Dr. Joy DeGruy. This day will bring together 300+ attendees, including human services professionals, educators, social workers, faith community members, advocates, elected officials, and emerging leaders.
Dr. DeGruy will facilitate two sessions. The morning session, Black, Bold, and Bruised: Understanding Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome, will explore the intersection of racial discrimination, trauma, violence, and slavery on African Americans. In the afternoon, she will engage in a luncheon discussion with Black Church leaders, Community Healing: The Role of the Black Church.
This special Black History Month offering will be held on
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
University of Maryland
Shady Grove Conference Center
9:00am – 2:00pm.
DECEMBER 2024
Dr. DeGruy will keynote the National Symposium for State and Local Reparations sponsored by First Repair, which educates and equips leaders, stakeholders, and allies who are advancing local reparations policies that remedy historic and ongoing anti-Black practices.
December 5, 2024
Evanston, Il
OCTOBER 2024
SEPTEMBER 2024
Join Dr. DeGruy at the One Planet Summit. Since 2017, the One Planet Summit has contributed to reinventing multilateralism, intensifying international cooperation, and taking tangible action for the planet.
October 11-13, 2024
San Francisco, CA
Dr. DeGruy is honored to join a group of luminaries at the Hillside Conference Events Ubuntu Conference.
Saturday, September 25, 2024 at 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Hillside International Truth Center in Atlanta, GA
APRIL 2024
Dr. DeGruy is humbled to receive the Francis Lomas Feldman Excellence in Education Award from the California Social Welfare Archives at their 45th Anniversary Celebration and Awards!
April 14, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Lomas Estate in Pasadena, CA
Co-sponsored by the University of Southern California's Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.
MARCH 2024
Dr. DeGruy will be in conversation with students and faculty at the University of California at Santa Barbara to discuss
Transforming Racial Trauma
March 14, 2024 at 5:00 pm
MCC Theater at UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA
Sponsored by the Office of Black Student Development, Dr. DeGruy will share her research and foundations of her groundbreaking theory of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome.
For more information email mekhimitchell@ucsb.edu
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Dr. DeGruy is excited to deliver a special lecture at famed HBCU, North Carolina Central University.
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
March 18, 2024 at 6:00 pm
School of Education Auditorium at NCCU
Santa Barbara, CA
Sponsored by North Carolina Central University and the Wilmette Institute.
For more information email Dr. Harvey L. McMurray hmcmurray@nccu.edu