Amplifying Diverse Voices: Continuing Education Speaker Series
The series will be offered at 5:30pm (mountain time) synchronously on Tuesdays in Spring 2025. Each session lasts 2 hours. Attendees must attend for the whole 2-hour workshop and all 5 workshops to attain CEs.
January 28th, 2025 | Dana Fitz Gale, EdD CCC-SLP: 'Introduction to Culturally Responsive Practice: Culture and Identity', 5:30p.m. to 7:30pm mst
Dana Fitz Gale (she/her) is a clinical faculty member at the 猎奇重口, where she holds a dual appointment between the department of Teaching & Learning and the department of Speech & Hearing Sciences. She has a doctorate in Education, with a focus on culturally sustaining literacy practices, as well as MFA in Creative Writing and an MS in Communication Disorders and Sciences. She was a practicing speech/language pathologist for nearly 20 years, serving several school districts on the Flathead Indian Reservation in addition to numerous Missoula area schools and preschools. Her passions include culturally sustaining pedagogies, antiracist education, and culturally and historically responsive literacy. She is also an award-winning fiction writer who has taught creative writing to many school-aged children via the non-profit Missoula Writing Collaborative. Dr. Fitz Gale currently teaches an undergraduate seminar on Culturally Responsive Practice and serves on the Executive Council of UM’s Diversity Advisory Council. She is one of the organizers of the Amplifying Diverse Voices series.
Disclosures: Dana Fitz Gale has no relevant financial or non-financial disclosures.
February 18th, 2025 | Maegan Rides at the Door, PhD, LCPC:聽'Understanding Historical Trauma and Trauma-Informed Practice', 5:30p.m. to 7:30pm mst
Dr. Maegan Rides At The Door, LCPC (she/her) has served as the Executive Director of the 猎奇重口 National Native Children’s Trauma Center in Missoula, MT since 2015 working to support NNCTC’s mission which is to co-facilitate trauma-focused healing in tribal communities. Maegan utilizes her knowledge in culturally trauma responsive care to provide training and technical assistance with a wide variety of systems of care including but not limited to schools, child welfare, juvenile justice, and healthcare. She provides administrative oversight for all center activities, including personnel management, relationship building with partner leads, and communication with federal sponsors. She is the Principal Investigator on the centers major awards, most notably a SAMHSA Category II National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative grant, an Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Expansion to Support Child Advocacy Centers Serving American Indian and Alaska Natives, and a Victims of Child Abuse Tribal TTA grant, which supports TTA efforts through the National Child Advocacy Resource Center. Dr. Rides At The Door also conducts outpatient counseling services on a limited basis. She carries a Blackfeet name by marriage but is an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Sioux and Assiniboine Tribes and a descendant of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.
Disclosures: For financial disclosures, Meagan Rides At The Door is receiving an honorarium for her presentation. For non-financial disclosures, Meagan Rides At The Door works for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
March 11th, 2024 | Understanding Race and Bias in Healthcare through Hearing Prosthetic Design 5:30p.m. to 7:30pm mst
Shade Avery Kirjava, AuD ABA-C: ‘Understanding Race and Bias in Healthcare through Hearing Prosthetic Design
Shade Avery Kirjava, AuD ABA-C is a licensed audiologist and public health researcher finishing a PhD in public health at the University of California, Irvine, USA. They use mixed methods and GIS methods to study healthcare access and equity in healthcare, particularly among historically marginalized populations.
Disclosures: Shade Avery Kirjava has no relevant financial or non-financial disclosures.
April 1st, 2024 | Alexander Choi-Tucci, PhD, Joseph Hin Yan Lam, and Alejandro Granados Vargas, M.A., CCC-SLP: 'Home Literacy Environments of Multilingual Families and Bilingual Reading', 5:30p.m. to 7:30pm mst
Alexander Choi-Tucci is a postdoctoral researcher and speech-language pathologist in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. He obtained his PhD and master’s degrees in Speech, Language, and Hearing Science from the University of Arizona. His research is focused on the development of valid and reliable assessment tools for identifying and describing language disorders across the lifespan, and on the effects of language disorders on written expression.
Disclosures: For financial disclosures, Dr. Alexander Choi-Tucci's position is funded by a grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD R01DC018329; NOT-OD-22-057, PI: Peña) and he is an ad-hoc psychometrics consultant for Ventris Learning. He has no relevant non-financial disclosures.
Joseph Hin Yan Lam is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Education, specializing in Human Development in Context (HDiC). He obtained his master's degree in Education from the University of California, Irvine, and his undergraduate degree in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the University of Hong Kong. His research interests focus on bilingual language and literacy development in typical and atypical school-age children and its impact on learning.
Disclosures: Joseph Hin Yan Lam has no relevant financial or non-financial disclosures.
Alejandro Granados Vargas, M.A., CCC-SLP is a bilingual speech-language pathologist and PhD candidate in Education at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include translanguaging and decolonial applications to research at the intersections of bilingualism and disability.
Disclosures: For financial disclosures, Alejandro Granados Vargas, M.A., CCC-SLP's research is supported by the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, 1F31DC021896-01). He has no relevant non-financial disclosures.
April 22nd, 2024 | Travis Wagner, PhD: 'Creation of LGBTQIA+ Identities & History', 5:30p.m. to 7:30pm mst
Travis Wagner is an assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Wagner’s research explores how LGBTQIA+ communities utilize digital technologies to curate and represent their complex history. Specifically, Wagner emphasizes community-led initiatives and highlights, how, as a community LGBTQIA+ individuals often creatively and innovatively make use of emergent technologies to explore LGBTQIA+ identity, while also defining and imagining the possibilities of the still-evolving field of queer history. Their work and research has received grant funding and has been published in journals spanning disciplines, including the Journal of Documentation, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, and the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Disclosures: Dr. Travis Wagner has no relevant financial or non-financial disclosures.