Join a focus group discussion with Dr. Joseph Derrick Nelson

We invite Browning families to join Dr. Nelson for coffee and conversation as we discuss our shared goals in raising their sons on January 28 from 8:30 - 9:15 a.m. in the Wilson Room.

What issues are top of mind for you? How can we partner effectively to foster our core values? Together, how do we nurture boys who are relational, reflective, responsible, and ready to engage with the world? Rsvp below to attend.

As is typical with focus group, Dr. Nelson will be recording and/or using an AI notetaker to aid in writing a brief report, which would be anonymized and shared only with Browning.

About our Speaker

Joseph Derrick Nelson, PhD is a writer, teacher-educator, and sociologist of race, gender, and education. He is Associate Professor of Educational Studies and Chair of the Black Studies Department at Swarthmore College. Dr. Nelson is also the Research Director of SPARC at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on race and gender equity in K-12 education, and he is a Research Affiliate with the Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. His research explores how schools can be “(re)imaginative” and “liberatory” institutions for Black children and youth, particularly Black boys from neighborhoods with concentrated poverty.

Dr. Nelson has published extensively, co-founded The Listening Project, he is a Fellow with the Boys’ Club of New York, on the Advisory Council for the American Institute for Boys and Men, and serves as Editor of the historic journal Men and Masculinities.