IMM24 - Draft Conference Program - Friday, Oct 11; 9:00 am to 5:30 pm

Time Presentation Titles Presenters Locations/Rooms

7:00 AM Set Up and Tech Check in; Registration Planning Team and Tech Check In Lobby

8:00 AM BREAKFAST Student Cafe 

9:00 AM Call to Order Planning Team Member Tisch Auditorium

9:05am Indigenous Invocation Aiyana Smith, MSW (Shinnecock Nation) Tisch Auditorium

9:10 AM Welcome, Introductions, Volunteer Acknowledgements & Housekeeping Planning Team Member Tisch Auditorium

9:15am Welcome: The New School New School Representative Tisch Auditorium

9:30am The Trajectory of Managing Mental Health as an African Queer Migrant Carlos Toh Zwakhala Idibouo Tisch Auditorium-via Zoom

10:15 AM Wellness Break Wellness Break

10:30 AM BREAKOUT Session 1

B1-A “Threadbare Masculinity”: Starr Foundation Hall

Trauma Informed Care- Needed Now More than Ever Gary Bailey,DHL,MSW,ACSW

B1-B  Latine LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers find self-healing and Hoerle Hall

community through 5-session psycho-social intervention Luis Alava, Voces Latinas

B1-C - Voicing with difference Kali Tisch Auditorium-via Zoom

B1-D - Migration Patterns of transgender individuals in Nigeria. Franklin Ejiougu Lecture Hall - UL 104

11:45 am We Remember Our Own Memorial Student Cafe

Noon Lunch Lunch Student Cafe

12:30pm Panel Discussion: Mental Health Panel Tisch Auditorium

Moderator: Julian Watkins, MD (NYC DOHMH); Panelists: Shane Tull, LCSW-R (Tull Psychotherapy), Uchechukwu Onwa (BAJI)

1:15pm Journey to Refuge: LGBTI+ Black Migrants Fleeing Anti-Homosexuality Legislation in Africa and

Confronting Anti-Immigrant Legislation in the US Tsion Gurmu (BAJI) Tisch Auditorium

2:00pm Panel Discussion: Legal Panel Tisch Auditorium

Moderator: Rebecca Press (Co-Counsel); Panelists: Tsion Gurmu, Esq. (BAJI), Jalitza Baez (Voces Latinas); Alpha Diallo, Esq, (Pan African CDI)

3:15pm Wellness BREAK Wellness Break

3:30pm BREAKOUT Session 2

B2 A - Between Psyche and Soul: Bringing Together Art and Starr Foundation Hall

Research in Exploring Black Gay & Same-Gender Loving Men's Resilience Daniel José Gaztambide, PsyD, Obi Onwukanjo, BA,

Tina Siganporia, MS, Bernard Tarver, Isa Anastasia Rivas, MA

B2- B - Afghan LGBTQ Community is seeking safety in Pakistan Namkeen Peshawri Tisch Auditorium via Zoom

B2-C - Your Body as Channel for Healing Generational Trauma Lupita González, MS Hoerle Hall

B2-D - Self Care for Mental Health Practitioners Shane Tull. LCSW-R Lecture Hall - UL104

4:45pm Wellness BREAK Wellness Break

5:00PM Panel Discussion: Workforce Development Tisch Auditorium

Moderator: Lissette Marerro, MSW (Voces Latinas);

Panelists: Melissa Johnson (BAJI), Tania Batres, DSW (Voces Latinas); Vladimir Tlali (LGBT Center); Kendra Frith (Rainbow Railroad)

6:15pm Reconvene Tisch Auditorium

Volunteer Acknowledgements | Announcements Tisch Auditorium

6:15pm Indigenous Peoples Closing Invocation Tisch Auditorium

6:15pm END CONFERENCE DAY 1

6:30pm “Our View” Film Forum Tisch Auditorium

Blue Flower (Sunil Babu Pant, Nepal), Ajima and Six Genders (Sunil Babu Pant, Nepal), Numb- a short film by Ayodeji Otuyelu, UnSaid – by Ayodeji Otuyelu, The Outlandish – by Ayodeji Otuyelu, PSAs - LGBT Cancer Network, Eating Pawpaw on the Seashore (Nickose Layne, Rae Wiltshire).

DAY 2

Saturday, Oct 12, 2024 – 9:00am to 2:30 pm

Time Presentation Titles Presenters Locations/Rooms

7:00 AM Set Up and Tech Check in; Registration Planning Team and Tech Check In Lobby

8:00 AM BREAKFAST Student Cafe 

9:00 AM Call to Order Planning Team Member Tisch Auditorium

9:05am Indigenous Invocation Aiyana Smith, MSW (Shinnecock Nation) Tisch Auditorium

9:10am Welcome, Introductions, Volunteer Acknowledgements & Housekeeping Planning Team Member Tisch Auditorium

9:15am Newcomer Challenges in First-World Countries Yasir Ali Khan Tisch Auditorium via Zoom

10:00am Wellness Break Wellness Break

10:15am Communities Together Networking/Mixing Student Cafe

11:00am BREAKOUT Session 3

B3-A - Lagos to New York City - Pandemic October Onyedikachi Nwogu Starr Foundation Hall

B3-B - No Literary Prostitutes: Hoerle Hall

Articulating A Queer Garveyite Aesthetic Among Queer Leads on Stage, Television and Film Rhone Fraser, Ph.D.

12:15pm B3-C - The Impact of Immigration Policies on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers Uchechukwu Onwa (BAJI) Lecture Hall - UL104

12:15pm LUNCH LUNCH Student Cafe

12:30pm Panel Discussion: Social Issues Impacting Communities’ Mental Health Tisch Auditorium

Moderator: Adjoa Osei, Psy. D.; Panelists: Jay W. Walker, Nadia Swanson, LCSW (Ali Forney Center), Louis Farmer Francois (LGBT Networks)

1:30pm Moving to Community Solutions - A Speak Out Tisch Auditorium

Facilitated by Khalil Bleux, with Speakers: Jay W. Walker, Iman LeCaire, Kim Watson (CK Life)

2:30pm Closing Invocation Tisch Auditorium

Conference Ends

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