Tara Conley Awarded Stanford University Race and Technology Fellowship
March 2021. Montclair State professor will develop digital toolkit to support young people’s advocacy campaigns for racial justice education in public schools. Read more at Montclair State University.
Tara L. Conley Named Among Stanford University Race and Tech Fellows
January 14, 2021. The Digital Civil Society Lab (DCSL) and Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) are pleased to announce the 2021 cohort of practitioner fellows which comprises of fourteen exceptional social sector leaders working on ideas to benefit civil society. This year’s fellows are working on a range of topics and tools in the realm of digital civil engagement that will help protect civil society actors and advance racial justice.
TC Alumna Tara L. Conley Reflects on Toni Morrison's Passing and Home for Bloomberg
Alumna Tara L. Conley (Ed.D '16) grew up in Elyria, Ohio, five miles and across a bridge from Lorain, the childhood home of the late, much celebrated novelist Toni Morrison.
August 2019, Teachers College, Columbia University. Alumna Tara L. Conley (Ed.D '16) grew up in Elyria, Ohio, five miles and across a bridge from Lorain, the childhood home of the late, much celebrated novelist Toni Morrison. In an opinion piece for “CityLab,” Conley, an assistant professor in the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University, asserts that Donald Trump’s presidency has changed their shared world from diverse working-class communities that Morrison called “neither plantation nor ghetto” – and where, in Conley’s words racism “wasn’t talked about so much as it was quietly experienced” – to one where, in her view, the Trump banners on white lawns signify a more overt divide. Read more at Teachers College, Columbia University Newsroom