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How can racial healing be achieved at a time when political and social divisions across the country run deep? Hahrie Han, director of the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins, takes up this question in conversation with Robert P. Jones, president and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future.
This event is part of the Hopkins Bloomberg Center’s Authors & Insights series.
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Hahrie Han is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor of Political Science, the inaugural director of the SNF Agora Institute, and the director of the P3 research lab at Johns Hopkins University. An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she has published four previous books: Prisms of the People, How Organizations Develop Activists, Groundbreakers, and Moved to Action. Her most recent book was awarded the 2022 Michael Harrington Book Award from the American Political Science Association for “scholarship contributing to the struggle for a better world,” and she was also named a 2022 Social Innovation Thought Leader of the Year by the World Economic Forum’s Schwab Foundation. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Republic, among other national publications. The daughter of Korean immigrants, she lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Robert P. Jones is the president and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). He is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future, as well as White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, which won a 2021 American Book Award. He is also the author of The End of White Christian America, which won the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Jones writes regularly on politics, culture, and religion for The Atlantic, TIME, Religion News Service, and other outlets. He is frequently featured in major national media, such as CNN, MSNBC, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. Jones writes a weekly newsletter for those dedicated to the work of truth-telling, repair, and healing from the legacy of white supremacy in American Christianity at www.whitetoolong.net.
Jessica Knight is a social worker, waitress, and public speaker. As a social worker with the Brown County Department of Job and Family Services in Ohio, Jess worked to help support families struggling with substance abuse and their children. As a Certified Peer Recovery Mentor, she worked on a statewide project in with a small team in rural Ohio. Ohio became the first state in the nation in 2023 to receive national certification from Children and Family Futures for the Ohio Sobriety Treatment and Reducing Trauma (Ohio START) program, a collaborative effort to provide non-traditional, wrap-around support for struggling families. A recovering addict, Jess received social work education from 2015-2018 at the University of Cincinnati. Jess lives and works in southern Ohio.
Chuck Mingo is the Founder and CEO of UNDIVIDED, a nonprofit organization built to unite and ignite people for racial justice through programming that takes participants through life-changing moments of racial healing. Through his passion for justice and racial reconciliation, Chuck has transformed a congregational training into a national movement with hub cities emerging throughout the country. Chuck’s leadership through UNDIVIDED has inspired and mobilized thousands from diverse backgrounds around the nation. In addition to leading UNDIVIDED, Chuck teaches and consults for churches and organizations around the country on a variety of topics related to race relations and racial justice. For nearly two decades, Chuck has served as a teaching pastor at one of the largest churches in America, Crossroads Church. Prior to being a pastor, Chuck spent nine years in the corporate world at Procter & Gamble. He earned his Bachelors in Business Administration at Duquesne University. Chuck is married with three children and calls Cincinnati, Ohio home.