Register for The Colorado Trust's first Health Equity Learning Series presentation of 2020, featuring Miguel A. De La Torre, Ph.D. The first presentation of the 2020 Health Equity Learning Series will be held at 5:30pm on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020 at the History Colorado Center.
The Health Equity Learning Series is an annual speaker series in which The Colorado Trust invites national experts to Denver to give presentations on how barriers impact health. The Trust also provides grants to organizations across the state to host viewings of recordings of these presentations, along with professionally facilitated discussions. There is a new grantmaking process for community-hosted viewings: the Trust will select organizations to participate in hosting future viewing events and discussions for the 2020-21 speaker series. There will not be an open application process.
Editor's note: While serving as the Director of Equity & Inclusion at Aurora Mental Health Center in 2018, I had the honor of planning Aurora's screenings of the talks presented at the Health Equity Learning Series. Along with volunteers from Aurora's Equity and Inclusion Advisory Council, I planned and executed events tailored for center staff and the community at large. Two community-wide conversations that tackled racial equity drew more than 300 AuMHC staff and residents.
Email The Colorado Trust for more information about the Health Equity Learning Series.
About Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre
Born in Cuba months before the Castro revolution, Dr. Miguel De La Torre and his family came to the United States as refugees when he was six months old. Today, he is one of the most highly regarded contemporary Latinx religion scholars. Since obtaining his doctoral degree in 1999, Dr. De La Torre, who describes himself as “scholar activist,” has authored several hundred articles and dozens of books. These include the national award-winning Reading the Bible from the Margins (Orbis, 2002); Santería: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2004); Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins (Orbis, 2004); and the two-volume Encyclopedia on Hispanic American Religious Cultures (ABC-CLIO, 2009).
Dr. De La Torre is professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. He is a past director of the American Academy of Religion and served as co-chair of its ethics section; past president of the Society of Christian Ethics; executive officer and cofounder of the Society of Race, Ethnicity and Religion; and founding editor of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion.
Dr. De La Torre received a Fulbright Specialists Scholarship, allowing him to teach at a university in Indonesia in 2012. He has also taught classes at universities in South Africa and Germany. He recently received a Louisville Institute Grant that will allow him to do research in Cuba for an upcoming book on the political theology of José Martí.
Dr. De La Torre delivered the following sermon was delivered on Sunday, November 10, 2013, at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The Colorado Trust te invita a asistir a su primer evento de 2020 de la Serie de aprendizaje sobre la equidad en salud (HELS, por sus siglas inglés), con la presentación especial del doctor Miguel A. De La Torre. Para crear comunidades donde todos podamos prosperar, la transformación personal y el fortalecimiento del poder comunitario deben suceder al mismo tiempo.
Nacido en Cuba meses antes de la revolución de Fidel Castro, el doctor Miguel De La Torre y su familia llegaron a Estados Unidos como refugiados cuando él tenía seis meses. Ahora, es uno de los académicxs religiosxs latinxs más respetado. Desde que obtuvo su doctorado en 1999, el doctor De La Torre, quien se describe como un “académico activista”, ha escrito cientos de artículos y docenas de libros. Estos incluyen el galardonado Reading the Bible from the Margins (“Leyendo la Biblia desde los márgenes”; Orbis, 2002); Santería: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America (“Santería: las creencias y los rituales de una creciente religión en Estados Unidos”; Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2004); Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins (“Practicando la ética cristiana desde los márgenes”; Orbis, 2004); y, la Encyclopedia on Hispanic American Religious Cultures de dos volúmenes (“Enciclopedia de culturas religiosas hispanoestadounidenses”; ABC-CLIO, 2009).
Actualmente, el doctor De La Torre es profesor de Ética social y Estudios latinxs en la Escuela Iliff de Teología en Denver. Fue director de la Academia Americana de Religión y copresidente de su departamento de ética; presidente de la Sociedad de Ética Cristiana; director ejecutivo y cofundador de la Sociedad de temas Raciales, Étnicos y Religiosos; y, editor fundador de la Revista sobre temas Raciales, Étnicos y Religiosos.
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The Health Equity Learning Series is an annual speaker series in which The Colorado Trust invites national experts to Denver to give presentations on how barriers impact health. The Trust also provides grants to organizations across the state to host viewings of recordings of these presentations, along with professionally facilitated discussions. There is a new grantmaking process for community-hosted viewings: the Trust will select organizations to participate in hosting future viewing events and discussions for the 2020-21 speaker series. There will not be an open application process.
Editor's note: While serving as the Director of Equity & Inclusion at Aurora Mental Health Center in 2018, I had the honor of planning Aurora's screenings of the talks presented at the Health Equity Learning Series. Along with volunteers from Aurora's Equity and Inclusion Advisory Council, I planned and executed events tailored for center staff and the community at large. Two community-wide conversations that tackled racial equity drew more than 300 AuMHC staff and residents.
Email The Colorado Trust for more information about the Health Equity Learning Series.
About Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre
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| Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre |
Dr. De La Torre is professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. He is a past director of the American Academy of Religion and served as co-chair of its ethics section; past president of the Society of Christian Ethics; executive officer and cofounder of the Society of Race, Ethnicity and Religion; and founding editor of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion.
Dr. De La Torre received a Fulbright Specialists Scholarship, allowing him to teach at a university in Indonesia in 2012. He has also taught classes at universities in South Africa and Germany. He recently received a Louisville Institute Grant that will allow him to do research in Cuba for an upcoming book on the political theology of José Martí.
Dr. De La Torre delivered the following sermon was delivered on Sunday, November 10, 2013, at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The Colorado Trust te invita a asistir a su primer evento de 2020 de la Serie de aprendizaje sobre la equidad en salud (HELS, por sus siglas inglés), con la presentación especial del doctor Miguel A. De La Torre. Para crear comunidades donde todos podamos prosperar, la transformación personal y el fortalecimiento del poder comunitario deben suceder al mismo tiempo.
Nacido en Cuba meses antes de la revolución de Fidel Castro, el doctor Miguel De La Torre y su familia llegaron a Estados Unidos como refugiados cuando él tenía seis meses. Ahora, es uno de los académicxs religiosxs latinxs más respetado. Desde que obtuvo su doctorado en 1999, el doctor De La Torre, quien se describe como un “académico activista”, ha escrito cientos de artículos y docenas de libros. Estos incluyen el galardonado Reading the Bible from the Margins (“Leyendo la Biblia desde los márgenes”; Orbis, 2002); Santería: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America (“Santería: las creencias y los rituales de una creciente religión en Estados Unidos”; Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2004); Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins (“Practicando la ética cristiana desde los márgenes”; Orbis, 2004); y, la Encyclopedia on Hispanic American Religious Cultures de dos volúmenes (“Enciclopedia de culturas religiosas hispanoestadounidenses”; ABC-CLIO, 2009).
Actualmente, el doctor De La Torre es profesor de Ética social y Estudios latinxs en la Escuela Iliff de Teología en Denver. Fue director de la Academia Americana de Religión y copresidente de su departamento de ética; presidente de la Sociedad de Ética Cristiana; director ejecutivo y cofundador de la Sociedad de temas Raciales, Étnicos y Religiosos; y, editor fundador de la Revista sobre temas Raciales, Étnicos y Religiosos.
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