Black Student Athlete Summit 2024
Fri, May 24
|Los Angeles University
Skyller Walkes, PH.D., MSJJ, M.A. "Profilic Impact Lab: Plenary Session"
Time & Location
May 24, 2024, 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM
Los Angeles University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
About The Event
Skyller Walkes, PH.D., MSJJ, M.A.
"Profilic Impact Lab: Plenary Session;" 5/24/24
Black Student Athlete Summit Plenary for Professionals
When Carrying It All Is Too Heavy a Burden: A Community S.O.S.- Save Our Sistas
Sending out an S.O.S....Historically, S.O.S. was a distress call from sailors at sea to, "Save Our Ship." However, I wish to reappropriate that crisis code with a more community pointed application that is: Save Our Sistas. This talk will acknowledge the overextension of Black women in their multifaceted, intersectional roles across community, family, and places of work. We will also examine the brutal costs of what Zora Neale Hurston refers to as "muling" in our communities and how we have inexcusably allowed it to persist across intra-communal dynamics.