Annual Global Well-Being and Social Change Conference

This year's conference titled, Advocacy for Humankind, will be held March 20-21, 2025 in Stayer Hall & Winter center, 无忧短视频. 

Join us this year as we foster and explore the connection that binds us as humans. What does it mean to be human? How do we embrace humanness? How does kindness promote humankind?

Dates: March 20-21, 2025 - ATTEND MARCH 21ST IN PERSON OR VIRTUALLY. LOCKEY LECTURE, MARCH 20TH, IS IN PERSON ONLY.

Registration Link for the Conference:

 

March 20, 2025: In Person - 7-8:30pm: Anna Funk Lockey Lecture Keynote Speaker: Andrew Slack

Title: Advocacy for Humankind

Location: Biemsderfer Auditorium, Winter Center, 无忧短视频

 

March 21, 2025: 8:30am-2:00pm: Conference Sessions and Plenary Speaker
Plenary Speaker: Dr. Heather Girvin

Title: Leading with Responsibility and Compassion: Lessons from the Herd

Location: Stayer Hall, 无忧短视频

Breakout Sessions:

Time 

Title 

Speaker 

Location 

8:30-8:45am 

Registration 

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Stayer Hall, MPR 

8:45-9:00am 

Welcome Address 

Dr. Lara Willox 

Stayer Hall, MPR 

9:10-10:10am 

Meals To Go: Exploring the challenges of navigating charitable food while homelessness 

 

 

Equine Empowerment:  Leadership Lessons from the Herd 

Drs. Jen Frank & Mary Glazier 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drs. Heather Girvin & Abigail Wilson 

Stayer Hall, TDB 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stayer Hall, TDB 

 

10:20-11:20am 

Collaborative Partnerships to Empower Latinx Youth Through Cultural Relevant Programming 

 

 

Integration of Peers into a Client's Recovery Journey 

Dr. Christina Pantoja Williams 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Amy Sagen & Shyanne Trapani 

Stayer Hall, TDB 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stayer Hall, TDB 

 

11:30am-12:30pm 

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights 

 

 

Utilizing Bibliotherapy to Foster Humankind 

Gregory Szczyrbak & Dr. Jess Hughes & Dr. Rob Spicer

 

 

 

Dr. Karen Rice 

Stayer Hall, TDB 

 

 

 

 

Stayer Hall, TDB 

 

12:30-2:00pm 

Lunch and Plenary Speaker: Leading with Responsibility and Compassion: Lessons from the Herd 

Dr. Heather Girvin 

Stayer Hall, MPR 

full program to be posted soon!

 

 

                     Contact Karen Rice at karen.rice@millersville.edu with questions.

 The Annual Global Well-Being and Social Change Conference provides a platform from which experts share their knowledge and offer training for agents of social change. Each year, the conference brings together faculty, students, staff, and community practitioners from around the world and across disciplines to learn together ways to advance global social justice and human rights. Despite this annual conference, students also present their research and glean knowledge from experts in the field.

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2021 - Global Citizenship: Acknowledging Interconnectedness and Cultivating Social Justice

2022 - Behavioral Mental Health Conference: Workforce Challenges

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