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Pedagogy Study Hall: Roundtable Discussion

November 19, 2025 6PM–7:30PM

Featuring: Tomashi Jackson, Nia Evans, Davarian Baldwin, Matt Cregor

Roundtable Participants

Matt Cregor is a civil rights attorney specializing in education law. He has worked with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Lawyers for Civil Rights. He currently serves at the Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee in Massachusetts. His work focuses on racial harassment, school discipline reform, teacher diversity, and special education. Matt has partnered with community-led organizations and played a key role in securing federal school discipline reform during the Obama administration.

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Davarian L. Baldwin is an internationally recognized historian, cultural critic, and public advocate. He is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and founding director of the Smart Cities Research Lab at Trinity College. His work focuses on global cities and marginalized communities, and he is the award-winning author of several books, including In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities. His commentaries have been featured in NBC News, BBC, The Washington Post, and TIME. In 2022, he was named a Freedom Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation for his work in racial and economic justice.

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Learn more about Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans: Pedagogy Study Hall

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