Join us for a presentation from Courtney Cabell (PsyD 4) in collaboration with ABPsi SC and Student Engagement in honor of Black History Month on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, from 12:30-1:20PM.
The history of Black people in America is rooted in hate, violence, racial oppression, racial discrimination, and differential treatment by White people in major institutional areas. Beginning with the transatlantic slave trade and the colonization of America, the United States has been rooted in a system of “social orders” that oppressed Black people and privileged White people. The deeply institutionalized regeneration of White power, wealth, and privilege offered centrality for White Americans and created a power differential that embedded systemic racism into America’s core. This initiated the normalization and perpetuation of discrimination, oppression, violence, assault, brutality, and anti-Black racism against Black people in systems such as healthcare, housing, education, and policing. These effects have endured throughout America’s history and are still present today. This presentation explores the foundation or “roots” of racism in American and examines how it has persisted and evolved throughout time.
This presentation is for PEAA credit and will be offered both on campus (Room TBD) and via Zoom. Thank you to ABPsi SC and Student Engagement for offering this event in recognition of Black History Month.
Courtney Cabell, MA, LLP, CCTP is currently a fourth-year doctoral student at the Michigan School of Psychology (MSP) where she previously served as a student ambassador, President of the Psi Chi chapter, and Vice President of the Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Alliance until completing her doctoral coursework and beginning her pre-doctoral internship at the University of Michigan’s Mary A. Rackham Institute. She also founded and served as President of the Association of Black Psychologists Student Circle chapter at MSP. Currently, Courtney serves as the Conference Committee Chair for Division 32’s, Society for Humanistic Psychology and engages in community outreach at the University of Michigan and its surrounding communities. Courtney has a passion for serving underprivileged, marginalized, and diverse populations, with a specific interest in the effects of trauma and vicarious trauma.
