17.02.2022
Faith and Racial Justice – Online event to explore racial justice in church and society
Members of the United Dioceses of Dublin & Glendalough, the wider Church of Ireland and beyond have a fantastic opportunity to engage with issues surrounding faith and racial justice at an online event in March. The renowned race relations and equality lecturer and activist, Dr Ebun Joseph, will be the speaker at Conversations About Mission on March 16 at 8pm.
The event will explore racial justice in our communities, churches and society. As well as being committed to highlighting issues around racial justice in the labour market and in society, Ebun is a committed Christian.
Faith and Racial Justice is organised by Dublin & Glendalough Council for Mission and is free and open to all. To join email dgcouncilformission@gmail.com
Chairperson of Dublin & Glendalough Council for Mission, the Revd Rob Clements, said that the event will provide an opportunity to hear from someone who is highly experienced in the area of race relations and equality. “Our hope for the evening is that people will learn how they can start the conversations about racial justice and equality within their own church communities. If we are serious about wanting to embrace Irish people from all ethnic backgrounds and newcomers to our communities, then we need these conversations to happen. As Christians we also need to recognise racism in all its insidious forms, we need to call it out and we need to become allies to all who need us,” he stated.
Dr Ebun Joseph is director of the Institute of Antiracism and Black Studies, a race relations consultant, lecturer Black Studies and chairperson of the African Scholars Association Ireland (AFSAI). She was a Teaching Fellow at Trinity College Dublin where she taught the undergraduate module on race, ethnicity and identity on the Master’s programme and developed and taught the module on intersectionality of race and gender. She developed the first module in Black Studies and critical race theory in education at University College Dublin.
Ebun holds the position of Career Development Consultant at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and she previously worked with Business in the Community Ireland for over nine years as Training and Employment Officer. Dr Joseph has a PhD in Equality Studies (2015) and an M.Ed. in Adult Guidance and Counselling from Maynooth University; an IACP accredited diploma in Professional Counselling and a B.Sc. in Microbiology from the University of Benin.
Ebun is also an author; TV panellist, columnist for the Dublin Inquirer on race and an equality activist. Ebun is published and contributes regular responses on contemporary issues of race and racism in Ireland. She recently launched the #NoToBrainWaste Campaign which highlights the barriers faced by under–employed and over–qualified migrants and Irish–born ethnic minorities.
To book your place and receive a Zoom link please email dgcouncilformission@gmail.com