Event: CHAS Conference 2024 at Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges

Dr. Diamond Howell-Shields appreciates the opportunity to join the Student Diversity Equity and Access team as the Director of the Race and Ethnicity Education Office (REEO). Her research interests and commitments include social justice education, school/institutional climate, educational access for marginalized students, and identity development within educational spaces. In doing so, she is committed to…

Dr. Karlene Burrell-McRae is the Dean of the Undergraduate College at Bryn Mawr College. She brings deep expertise and experience in the creation of a fully integrated student experience that puts student wellbeing at the center and to ensuring equity regarding the impact of policies and procedures. Burrell-McRae is also committed to transformative justice practices…

As Associate Dean for Equity, Inclusion, and Community Life, A.T. Ortíz provides vision and direction to The Impact Center for Community, Equity, and Understanding and Inclusion and is a leader in the college’s efforts to achieve its goals for diversity and inclusion in the liberal arts education experience. She is a key adviser to the…

Since the fall of 2019, sourav (pronounced “Show Rob”) has served as executive director of the Consortium on High Achievement and Success (CHAS). He has two decades of professional experience across a broad variety of roles in the public, nonprofit, and postsecondary sectors, including many years working on issues pertaining to access, inclusion and representation…

Chocolate Ballerina Company is a contemporary community-based dance organization, that supports the hidden talents in youth and adult artists of color in the Philadelphia region. We infuse classic ballet technique with urban pop culture music, to illustrate the cross between cultural differences and our unique similarities. We engage an underserved community through dance, to inspire…

Dr. John McKnight is the Dean of the College at Haverford, serving as a member of the College’s senior administration and overseeing the student life division, including offices in several key functional areas: Academic Advising and Support, Athletics, Campus Safety, Career and Professional Advising, Counseling and Psychological Services, Health Services, Residential Education and Student Engagement,…

In my role, I provide leadership and strategic direction to AMOs, to Black at Bryn Mawr, the ILLC (which is the new affinity housing), as well as programming and trainings related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism. I lead efforts that center on belonging and welcoming to enhance community and life on campus. For academics, my undergraduate degree is…

Tiffany Thompson joined the Swarthmore community Aug. 13 as the associate director of gender and sexuality initiatives at the Intercultural Center and program manager for the Women’s Resource Center. Thompson worked most recently as the associate director of the LGBT Center at the University of Pennsylvania and brings to the College more than 15 years of experience in sexual and reproductive…

Karima I. A. Bouchenafa is an Assistant Dean and Director of the Black Cultural Center at Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA). Previously, she served as Assistant Director of the Philadelphia University Honors Institute at Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, PA). She has nearly twenty-four years of experience in higher education, having served in several administrative roles and as…

As a writer and thought-leader, Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts offers those who read her work and hear her speak an authentic experience; an opportunity to explore the intersection of culture, identity and faith/spirituality at the deepest levels. She is the host of the podcast, HeARTtalk with Tracey Michae’l, and founder of HeARTspace, a healing community created…