The inaugural talk of the CRE2-fun ded Mindfulness & Anti-Racism series presents the work of Professor Rhonda Magee.
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Rhonda V. Magee (M.A. Sociology\, J.D.) is Pro fessor of Law at the University of San Francisco\, and is an internationall y-recognized thought and practice leader focused on integrating Mindfulness into Higher Education\, Law and Social Justice. Magee’s book\, Th e Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming our Comm unities Through Mindfulness (September\, 2019 by TarcherPerigee\, a member of the Penguin Random House Group)\, was named one of the top ten books released for the year by the Greater Good Science Center\, and receiv ed similar recognition by Psychology Today and the editors of Mindful.org: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/our_favorite_books_of _2019\; https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/ blog/the-clarity/201912/my-favorite-psychology-books-2019\; https://www.mind ful.org/the-best-mindfulness-books-of-2019/. Her work has received nume rous awards\, including the Impact Award from the American Public Health As sociation’s section on Integrative\, Complementary and Traditional Health P ractices (2020)\, and the Garrison Institute’s Impact+Insight Award (2019).
Born in Kinston\, North Carolina and raised in Hampton\, Virginia\, Professor Magee is a 1989 graduate\, with Distinction\, of the University o f Virginia (UVA) College of Arts and Sciences\, and a graduate of UVA’s Uni ted States Army Reserved Officer’s Training Corps. She earned both a Master ’s degree in Sociology from UVA’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and a Juris Doctorate from the UVA School of Law in 1993.
A Professor of Law since 1997 (tenured since 2004)\, Magee teaches courses dealing with ci vil actions for personal injury and insurance recovery (Torts)\; courses de aling with race and inequality\; and a course she co-created on mindfulness and lawyering. Magee’s teaching and writing support compassionate conflict engagement and management\; holistic problem-solving to alleviate the suff ering of the vulnerable and injured\; presence-based leadership in a divers e world\, and humanizing approaches to education. She sees mindfulness and the allied disciplines as keys to personal\, interpersonal and collective transformation in the face of the challenges and opportunities that social change represents.
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