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Submission Number: 198
Submission ID: 1286
Submission UUID: cb22d922-1f7b-441f-8c8e-087d8c81a84b
Submission URI: /2025/abstracts
Created: Thu, 06/26/2025 - 15:38
Completed: Thu, 06/26/2025 - 15:46
Changed: Sun, 08/03/2025 - 12:39
Remote IP address: 99.78.75.16
Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English
Is draft: No
Current page: Complete
Webform: Abstract
| Title | Dr. |
|---|---|
| Lastname | Thomas |
| Firstname | Kayte |
| kayte_thomas1@baylor.edu | |
| Mobile | (919)633-3372 |
| Institution | Baylor university |
| Biosketch | Dr. Kayte Thomas holds a BSW, MSW, and PhD in social work and currently teaches at the graduate level. She is the first woman in her family to attend college, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in North Carolina, and holds additional designations of Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) and Certified Integrative Medicine Mental Health Provider (CIMHP). Her expertise lies in trauma and resiliency, refugee resettlement, interfaith practice, and holistic healing. Her research and publication interests include myriad aspects of anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and liberatory praxis. She encourages those around her to think of global interconnectedness in all interactions. |
| Is there a Second Presenter? | No |
| Title of Presentatation | Academics4Gaza: Training Global Academics to Tutor Students Under Siege |
| Theme Selection | THEME 3: Policy and Advocacy for Peace building, Environmental and Social Justice |
| Subtheme THREE Selection | SUB 3.2 Social workers, social movements and advocacy during wars, natural and medical disasters. |
| Select your Presentation Type | Oral Presentation |
| Abstract | To combat the targeted epistemicide intentionally created with the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a network of international tutors stepped in to support displaced university students. Academics4Gaza is an initiative which exists to resist the erasure of Palestinian academics and to refuse to allow their knowledge and dreams to be destroyed. This presentation will discuss the process of creating a unique training program designed to acclimate a group of global academics from a variety of countries and disciplines to the role of education in Palestinian culture. Through a culturally attuned, liberatory frame with historical and trauma aware lens, this training program prepares global tutors to teach and connect in situations unlike any other classroom in existence. Research shows that maintaining educational trajectories during times of crisis, war, and forced displacement is a key protective factor in later outcomes. As both social workers and academics, a radical reimagining of the university setting to include a transnational, cross-cultural, digital space that is responsive to unbearable conditions is more than solidarity and resistance to oppression – it is a refusal to allow a world to exist where learning is weaponized, and a promise to co-create a legacy that persists beyond the boundaries of human devastation. Indeed, this experience has shaped both the tutors and students in profound and lasting ways. Attendees will gain insight into necessary skills to provide educational and relational exchange under these conditions, techniques used to scaffold the tutors’ vicarious trauma experiences with psychosocial support, and key takeaways for the future of academic ventures as genuine beacons of hopeful peacekeeping initiatives. |
| Title | Mr |
| Firstname | Jean-Paul |
| Lastname | Pophaim |
| Does the Abstract fit the selected Theme? | Yes |
| What Area does this Abstract Focus on? | Practice |
| Status | Accepted |
| Title | Dr |
| Firstname | Grey |
| Lastname | Magaiza |
| Does the Abstract fit the selected Theme? | Yes |
| What Area does this Abstract Focus on? | Education |
| Status | Accepted |