Annual Summit on Social Consciousness

Featuring Paul M. Buckley as plenary speaker

The featured speaker will be Paul M. Buckley who will be speaking on the topic of Race, Justice and Christianity. Attendees will be inspired, challenged and encouraged by his message.

Buckley is an administrator-scholar, engaged citizen, and sometime provocateur. In his current position as assistant vice president and inaugural director of the Butler Center at Colorado College, Paul's work champions the cause of diversity, inclusion, intercultural exchange, equity and empowerment for his campus community.

Paul M. Buckley is an emerging scholar in Critical Race Theory. In 2012, he earned his PhD in Cultural Foundations of Education from Syracuse University’s School of Education, with a dissertation focused on “Racing Discourses: Constructions and Negotiations Students Make About Race.” Since then he has presented papers and speeches on various aspects of his work.

In 2013, he became a Fellow for the Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth (GRID), furthering his interest in Black masculinities at the intersection of faith commitments. His most recent publication can be found in the book, "Trayvon Martin, Race, and American Justice: Writing Wrong" (2014).

Paul has been a speaker and presenter at national and international conferences including the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) of which he now serves on the National Advisory Council, a host of regional conferences and campuses across the nation. He is also a consultant for diversity and social justice issues in education.