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Chicago Mosaics: Community Healing - Hip Hop Therapy
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It's a new year and this year Chicago Mosaics will focus on Community Healing and Hip Hop Therapy
This speaker series is a quarterly event where The Egan Office of Urban Education and Community Partnerships at DePaul University hosts conversations with community and movement builders, activists, and organizers in an effort to recognize the critical voices that give shape to The Chicago Mosaic. All events are free and open to the community.
This event will be held on Zoom and in-person at the Lincoln Park Student Center. Register for the event on Eventbrite and the ticket emailed to you will contain the link to the event. Any questions regarding the event or this speaker series please email eganoffice@depaul.edu.
Food Provided (Chartwell's )
Where
Student Center (Lincoln Park)
ROOM 120 B
2250 N Sheffield Ave., Chicago, IL 60614
Speakers
Obari Cartman
Dr. Cartman is a father, son, brother, uncle, thinker, writer, therapist, photographer, drummer, and grassroots mental health advocate. He is a Chicago native, where his cultural and educational foundations were cultivated by several African-centered institutions. He received his undergraduate degree from Hampton University and a Ph.D in clinical & community psychology from Georgia State University. His recent work includes being a trauma focused clinician, restorative justice coach and program evaluator with H.E.LP., LLC (Healing Empowering and Learning Professions). Dr. Cartman has served as a professor of psychology at Georgia State University and the Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies at Northeastern University. Dr. Cartman recently created a male rites of passage curriculum called MANifest that is being implemented in juvenile detention centers, schools and in private community settings. Currently Dr. Cartman is the program director for Real Men Charities, Inc. where he facilitates weekly men's wellness and African drumming circles and is the associate editor of the South Side Drive magazine. Dr. Cartman is the current President of the Chicago Association of Black Psychologists and curator of a directory of Black mental health providers. As a consultant Dr. Cartman facilitates trainings for adults and workshops with youth about maintaining good mental health, critical analysis of hip-hop and media, racial and cultural identity, developing authentic manhood, and healthy relationships.