MLCHC Black History Month Presentation: Quantum Leap
Remote
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
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Eastern Standard Time
Date: February 21st, 2024
Time: 11:30am - 1pm
Presenter: Dr. Michael Curry, Esq., President & CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
About the Presenter: Dr. Michael Curry, Esq. brings over 30 years of experience and results in civil rights advocacy, health reform and health equity. He is the Immediate Past President of the Boston Branch of the NAACP (2011-2016) with over 25 years of dedicated service to the NAACP on the city, state-area conference and national levels. He was elected to the NAACP Board of Directors in 2014, 2017, 2020, and was recently reelected in 2023 by members from across the country. He serves on the National NAACP’s Executive Committee, and as the appointed Chair of the National Board’s Advocacy & Policy Committee since 2019, Chair of the Constitution and Bylaws Sub-Committee, and Vice-Chair the Political Action and Legislation Committee. On May 15, 2021, the National Board appointed him as Administrator for the New England Area Conference of the NAACP, overseeing the state-area conference and all branches in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont. Michael is also an Adjunct Professor at both New England Law Boston teaching “Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession” and Suffolk University’s Moakley Center and Sawyer School of Management teaching a health care management and policy course.
Session Description: This presentation by our speaker Dr. Michael Curry, Esq. entitled “Quantum Leap” is meant to provide the audience with a walk through of Anti-Black Racism in America – from 1619 to 2024 with the goal of connecting the dots between present day racial inequities and those experienced in our society in the past. Named after Quantum Leap, the 1980s/90s television show where Dr. Sam Beckett travels through time, leaping into the bodies of different people under various circumstances to “put right what once went wrong,” this presentation will take a similar approach and will ask the audience to travel through time to learn more about different key moments in our nation’s past.
Contact: For any questions about this presentaton, please reach out to Kirby Valentin at kvalentin@massleague.org