Amplifying Diverse Voices: Continuing Education Speaker Series in DEI

The series will be offered at 5:30pm (mountain time) synchronously on Tuesdays in Spring 2024. Each session lasts 2 hours. Attendees must attend for the whole 2-hour workshop and all 5 workshops to attain CEs.

January 23rd, 2024 | Danielle Fahey, PhD & Dana Fitz Gale, EdD CCC-SLP: 'Introduction to Culturally Responsive Practice: Culture and Identity', 5:30p.m. to 7:30pm mst

Danielle Fahey (she/her) is Assistant Professor and principal investigator of the Grammar in Aphasia & Bilingualism (GAB) Lab at the University of Montana. She has an undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University in International Studies, a master of science in teaching English to speakers of other languages from McDaniel College, and a PhD in Linguistics, focusing on the psycholinguistics of bilingualism, and postdoctoral training in Communication Sciences and Disorders, focusing on grammar deficits in aphasia, both at the University of South Carolina. She taught English language and linguistics for over 10 years and has been teaching at the University of Montana since 2022. Her work broadly emphasizes increasing representation in cognitive science, with research focusing on understanding how diverse populations process grammar. She is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), the Academy of Aphasia (AOA), the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), and the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). She is one of the organizers of the Amplifying Diverse Voices series.

Disclosures: Danielle Fahey has no relevant financial or non-financial disclosures.

Dana Fitz Gale (she/her) is a clinical faculty member at the University of Montana, where she holds a dual appointment between the department of Teaching & Learning and the department of Speech & Hearing Sciences. She has a doctorate in Education, with a focus on culturally sustaining literacy practices, as well as MFA in Creative Writing and an MS in Communication Disorders and Sciences. She was a practicing speech/language pathologist for nearly 20 years, serving several school districts on the Flathead Indian Reservation in addition to numerous Missoula area schools and preschools. Her passions include culturally sustaining pedagogies, antiracist education, and culturally and historically responsive literacy. She is also an award-winning fiction writer who has taught creative writing to many school-aged children via the non-profit Missoula Writing Collaborative. Dr. Fitz Gale currently teaches an undergraduate seminar on Culturally Responsive Practice and serves on the Executive Council of UM’s Diversity Advisory Council. She is one of the organizers of the Amplifying Diverse Voices series.

Disclosures: Dana Fitz Gale has no relevant financial or non-financial disclosures.

February 13th, 2024 | Maegan Rides at the Door, PhD, LCPC: 'Understanding Historical Trauma and Trauma-Informed Practice', 5:30p.m. to 7:30pm mst

Dr. Maegan Rides At The Door, LCPC (she/her) has served as the Executive Director of the University of Montana National Native Children’s Trauma Center in Missoula, MT since 2015 working to support NNCTC’s mission which is to co-facilitate trauma-focused healing in tribal communities. Maegan utilizes her knowledge in culturally trauma responsive care to provide training and technical assistance with a wide variety of systems of care including but not limited to schools, child welfare, juvenile justice, and healthcare. She provides administrative oversight for all center activities, including personnel management, relationship building with partner leads, and communication with federal sponsors. She is the Principal Investigator on the centers major awards, most notably a SAMHSA Category II National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative grant, an Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Expansion to Support Child Advocacy Centers Serving American Indian and Alaska Natives, and a Victims of Child Abuse Tribal TTA grant, which supports TTA efforts through the National Child Advocacy Resource Center. Dr. Rides At The Door also conducts outpatient counseling services on a limited basis. She carries a Blackfeet name by marriage but is an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Sioux and Assiniboine Tribes and a descendant of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.

Disclosures: For financial disclosures, Meagan Rides At The Door is receiving an honorarium for her presentation. For non-financial disclosures, Meagan Rides At The Door works for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

March 5th, 2024 | Archie Crowley, PhD: Creating an Inclusive Speech-Language Pathology for Trans and Non-Binary Individuals', 5:30p.m. to 7:30pm mst

Archie Crowley (they/them) is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Elon University. They earned their PhD in Linguistics and Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of South Carolina in 2022. Crowley’s research focuses on language and identity within transgender and nonbinary communities in the United States.

Disclosures: For financial disclosures, Archie Crowley is receiving an honorarium for their presentation. They have no relevant non-financial disclosures.

March 26th, 2024 | Mila Tasseva-Kurkchieva, PhD: 'The bilingual speaker: Which language, when, and how?', 5:30p.m. to 7:30pm mst

Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva (she/her) is a Research Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of South Carolina. Her primary area of research and teaching is bilingualism and second language acquisition. Her research focuses on the acquisition of grammatical features by second and third language learners, second language reading, and bilingual processing of words with differing overlap between lexical, phonological, and morpho-syntactic properties. She regularly teaches courses on second language acquisition, bilingualism, and bilingual language processing and has directed several dissertations focusing on these topics.

Disclosures: For financial disclosures, Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva is receiving an honorarium for her presentation. She has no relevant non-financial disclosures.

April 23rd, 2024 | Mandy Smoker Broaddus, PhD MFA: 'Diverse Books and Culturally Responsive Literacy Practices', Tuesday, April 30th, 2024, 5:30p.m. to 7:30pm mst

Mandy Smoker Broaddus, PhD (she/her) is Nakoda, Dakota and Lakota, an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Tribe.  She served as Montana co-poet laureate from 2019-2021. She received an MFA from the University of Montana in Missoula.  In 2019 she was recognized as an alumna of the year by the University and received an honorary doctorate in 2023.  Her first collection of poems, Another Attempt at Rescue, was published by Hanging Loose Press in 2005. She also coauthored a children's graphic novel entitled Thunderous, published in 2022. She received a regional Emmy award for her work as a writer/consultant on the PBS documentary Indian Relay. 

She served as the Director of Indian Education for the state of Montana for almost ten years, was appointed to the National Advisory Council on Indian Education by President Barack Obama and currently works at Education Northwest providing support for Native education efforts around the country.

Disclosures: For financial disclosures, Mandy Smoker Broaddus is receiving an honorarium for her presentation. She also receives royalty payments from her collection of poems, Another Attempt at Rescue and her co-authored children's graphic novel, Thunderous. She has no relevant non-financial disclosures.

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