Dr. Abdimalik Buul
Coffee Talk #4: Racism: What’s Really Going On…And What Can We Do?
In this 4th session, Abdimalik Buul will provide participants with a safe, interactive space to learn, develop and share practical tools for identifying and transcending forms of bias, microaggressions, racism and begin to prepare us as change agents. He will start by defining its source and how it manifests. Dr. Buul will introduce a systematic approach utilizing a social justice, race-conscious framework to assist participants in unearthing bias and harm and planting seeds of justice to produce fruits of accountability and equity. A survey will be sent to our members as a pre-assessment to discover prior knowledge for customized responses.
About the Presenter:
Dr. Abdimalik Buul is an anti-racist scholar, theorist of curriculum trauma, and emancipatory educator. An immigrant refugee from Somalia, he came to the United States at the age of 5 He completed his bachelor’s degree from SDSU in Sociology and a master’s degree in education with an emphasis on community-based counseling and social justice. He completed his doctorate work in Educational leadership from the University of Southern California. He is an assistant professor at San Diego city college. He serves as a board president for Markaz al Madina, a community-based non-profit, a board member at large for African American Male and Educational Development Network (A2mend), and Vice President of the board for the United Taxi Drivers Union in San Diego. He was the first Somali ever hired as a tenure track faculty member at Southwestern College.
