Speakers & Moderators:
Marc Berman, University of Chicago
Renee Boynton-Jarrett, Boston University
Nadine Burke Harris, Center for Youth Wellness
Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children's Zone
Frank Farrow, Center for the Study of Social Policy
Patricia Findley, Rutgers University
Mona Hanna-Attisha, Michigan State University
Lisa Melara, Boston Family Engagement Network
Ravi Raju, Picower Institute, MIT
Jonathan Rose, Jonathan Rose Companies LLC
Frank Schilbach, MIT
Laura Schulz, MIT
Jack Shonkoff, Harvard University
Gihan Suliman, Boston Family Engagement Network
Jose Antonio Vargas, Define American
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Tentative Program:
8:30 – 9:00 am Breakfast and Registration
9:00 – 9:10 am Welcome, Li-Huei Tsai
Opening Remarks, President Reif & Barbara Picower
9:10 – 9:50 am Nadine Burke-Harris, "Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity"
9:50 – 10:25 am Ravi Raju, Picower Institute, MIT, "How poverty gets written onto our genome: Building a molecular understanding of how resource deprivation affects health and behavior"
10:25 – 10:45 am Break
10:45 – 11:20 am Jack Shonkoff, "Early Life Stress, 21st-Century Science, and the “Stockdale Paradox”"
11:20 – 11:55 am Laura Schulz, "What really matters: Children's inferences about learning, trying, and caring"
11:55 am – 12:30 pm Panel Discussion on the Parent Perspective
12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch
12:30 – 12:40 pm Lunch Remarks, Maria Zuber, MIT VPR
1:30 – 2:05 pm Mona Hanna-Attisha, "Flint: When Toxins Are Added To Toxic Stress"
2:05 – 2:40 pm Frank Schilbach, MIT, “Sleepless in Chennai: The Impacts of Sleep Deprivation Among the Poor“
2:40 – 3:00 pm Break
3:00 – 4:00 pm Panel Discussion on the Built Environment’s Influence on Stress and Child Brain Development
4:00 – 4:50 pm Geoffery Canada (Keynote), "The Monsters in Children’s Lives - Still There 26 Years Later"
4:50 – 5:00 pm Closing Remarks, Matt Wilson
5:00 pm Reception