Justice Working Group Lunchtime Seminar 4

In collaboration with

The Columbia Population Research Center,

The Center for Justice at Columbia

is pleased to invite you to

“What is Racism?: Innovations in Measurement and Implications for Racial Health Disparities”

seminar by

Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Columbia University

and

“Rethinking ‘Fair Chance’ Laws: Criminal Stigma and the Effects of Inclusion and Omission of Criminal-Record Disclosure Questions in the Job Market”

seminar by

Michael J. Naft

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Psychology, Columbia University

Friday, April 1st, 2016

12:00 – 2:00 PM

Columbia School of Social Work

1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 1109

(between 121st and 122nd streets)

**Please RSVP (to [email protected]) by Wednesday, March 30^th, as lunch will be provided.

Abstracts and Bio:

“What is Racism?: Innovations in Measurement and Implications for Racial Health Disparities”

Dr. Cogburn’s presentation will focus on novel approaches for understanding the role of racism-related stress exposures in producing racial disparities in health. Specifically, she will discuss findings from a laboratory experiment examining the effects of media-based racism on multiple stress responses as well as initial findings from a “big data” project examining the effects of national media exposure to police brutality events on health.

Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn is as an assistant professor at CUSSW and a faculty member of the Columbia Population Research Center. Her research aims to characterize and evaluate the function of toxic social environments in producing racial disparities in health and disease. Professor Cogburn received her MSW and Ph.D. in Education and Psychology at the University of Michigan. Prior to arriving at CSSW, Dr. Cogburn was a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar program at Harvard University.

“Rethinking ‘Fair Chance’ Laws: Criminal Stigma and the Effects of Inclusion and Omission of Criminal-Record Disclosure Questions in the Job Market”

Mike Naft will present research exploring cognitive, affective, and behavioral implications of “criminal identity stigma,” which he and colleagues propose is distinct from other forms of identity-based devaluation. He will discuss studies examining psychological and behavioral effects of disclosure and concealment of one’s criminal identity in the employment-seeking context. The research sheds light on how the formerly incarcerated experience stigma in one of the most common, and consequential, situations faced by individuals coming home from prison.