20 YEARS of Mentoring for Passion, Politics, Social Justice, and Public Health

Our first APHA Spirit of 1848 pedagogy session -- planned 20 years ago in fall 1994, at our first public Spirit of 1848 meeting, and held in fall 1995 – focused on the experience and impact of positive mentoring for public health and social justice. This year, we circle back to our roots.

The invited presentations will look back on 20 years of the Spirit of 1848 Caucus and focus on how mentoring can contribute to building a public health workforce that critically examines and links issues of social justice and public health. Speakers will draw on personal experience to speak about how they have been mentored and/or mentored others. We will bring back public health leaders who participated in our 1995 panel and other longtime advocates of mentoring for progressive public health work, including Dr. Nina Wallerstein, Dr. John Hatch, Dr. Sherman James with mentee Debbie Barrington.