Jan 21, 2027, 3:00 PM - Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) - Events Calendar

Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT)

Thursday, January 21, 2027
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Allendale Campus
Faculty, Staff

Through TRHT, participants build relationships, trust, and collective power. Those relationships lay the groundwork for powerful systemic change, supporting participants to re-envision and reshape their institution's policies and practices. Space in this cohort is limited to 30 participants. There is no fee to participate and copies of Rx Racial Healing will be provided to all who register, in advance of the first session. Meetings will take place on the Allendale Campus. We hope you will join us! Participants in the 2023 cohort universally described the experience as energizing, transformative, and a constructive avenue toward building sustainable change.

Participants will be able to:

Read and discuss Dr. Gail C. Christopher's Rx Racial Healing: A Guide to Embracing Our Humanity, which outlines the TRHT process
Participate in a series of conversations that are designed to bring people together in safe spaces to build authentic relationships grounded in appreciation, respect, and trust that extend across and within racial groups
Identity specific action steps that participants can take to heal racial divides and transform Grand Valley into a less segregated, more equitable, diverse, and inclusive institution

Presenters:

Takeelia Garrett, M.Ed. (She/Her/Hers) Assistant Dean of Students
Holly Jasinski, MS, RYT (She/Her/Hers) Director, Gayle R. Davis Center for Women and Gender Equity

Location Information

Allendale Campus in Kirkhof room #1142

Space is limited, so registration on Workday Learning is required.

Download parking map for the Allendale Campus

Contact Information

Inclusion & Equity

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 616-331-4111

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This event was added to the calendar by Emmanuel Amankwah (amankwem@mail.gvsu.edu) on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 and was last updated on Friday, October 2, 2026 at 10:05 a.m.