Crossing Bridges Summit set to resume at PSUGA

By JEFF STITT

jstitt@yourmvi.com

Penn State Greater Allegheny in McKeesport has released the details for the first installment of the 2020-21 Crossing Bridges Summit.

The Crossing Bridges Summit is a signature program at Greater Allegheny that aims to bring students, faculty, staff and community members together and to bridge racial divides in the Mon Valley, according to spokeswoman Victoria Garwood. 

This year’s summit will highlight the voice of Black women’s voices as it examines Black women’s health from a number of perspectives, according to Garwood.

PSUGA will begin its fourth year of The Crossing Bridges Summit when it hosts “Medical Perspectives on Black Women’s Health” at 3 p.m. Oct. 15.

WPSU will produce the event and broadcast the event live at watch.psu.edu/crossingbridges.

“Our Crossing Bridges Summit committee identified this year’s theme after reading “Pittsburgh’s Inequality Across Race and Gender” report,” Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer Jacqueline Edmondson said. “Women’s health was identified as a concern. We want to partner with local and national experts to help the campus community and the public understand the issues identified in this report, to consider how these issues are manifest in the Mon Valley region, and to identify areas where the campus can collaborate with community partners to be a catalyst for change.”

The Oct. 15 panel, the first in a four-part series, will focus on the findings in the inequity report, which was published in September 2019, and will place a lens on Black maternal health.  Johnathan White, lecturer of history at Penn State Greater Allegheny, will moderate the discussion and field submitted questions from the audience.

The panelists include Jessica Brooks, CEO/executive director of Pittsburgh Business Group on Health; Dr. Liz Miller, professor of Public Health and Clinical and Translational Science at University of Pittsburgh, Jamila Please, founder of Her Birth Right, and Jada Shirriel, CEO of Healthy Start.  

To read the rest of the story, please subscribe or subscribe to our online edition at http://monvalleyindependent.com.