Adrienne W. Hoard MFA, EdD
If you are feeling scared, confused, hurt, resentful or if you are looking for ways to expand your heart and don’t know how to move forward, then please watch this talk with Adrienne W. Hoard, an artist, photographer and professor emeritus of Black Studies at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Topics Covered:
+ Building real empathy and compassion towards people who have a limited American experience based on the color of their skin
+ Moving through fear and worry that you are going to do or say the wrong thing
+ Negotiating identities within a race and class system here in the US, as well as in South Africa where Adrienne was a visiting Professor
+ Double Consciousness, a concept by W.E.B. DuBois, where a person is living in two different worlds at the same time: one where they are American and one where they are African American
+ How to begin talking to your children, your patients and your clients about race
+ Self preservation, shame and forgiveness
+ Cognitive Dissonance as a barrier to recognizing one’s own bias, privilege and racism
Adrienne Walker Hoard is a professor emeritus of Black Studies at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. She is an artist, photographer and aesthetics educator.
She has an MFA in painting and design from the University of Michigan and an EdD in the psychology of visual perception from the University of Illinois.
Dr. Hoard is a former Fulbright Scholar to South Korea and as an UMSAEP (University of Missouri South African Education Program) Research Fellow to South Africa, she taught at University of South Africa in Pretoria and University of the Western Cape in Cape Town.
She is a member of the Council Board of Harrington – Centre for Research and Experimental Development on Humanities and Social Sciences, London, UK.
Her research on the presence of a Black Aesthetic produced an empirical study utilizing sorting methodology, which documented among Black subjects an internal recognition of cultural visual cues in abstract compositions created by Black painters.
Dr. Hoard’s design work, paintings and photography have been exhibited and sold widely in the USA, Africa, Asia and Europe.
You can find Adrienne on Etsy, Instagram and at her website.
Erin Matlock is a globally recognized mindset coach whose radical approach attracts CEOs, media personalities, NY Times bestselling authors, elite athletes and highly visible entrepreneurs as she guides them through intense transition and rapid growth in their professional and personal life.
She is a life member of Mensa® and founder of BRAIN SUMMIT. A dedicated activist and advisor, she has spent over a decade in leadership in the brain health, mental health, neurotech and transformational markets.