Summary of Adam’s Talk:
The emergence and translation of Mendel’s discoveries about genetics into English coincided with the rise of eugenics, and provided its most devoted apostles with a biological mechanism to justify their bigotry. An ideological commitment to mendelian pedigrees formed the pseudoscientific basis for mass sterilisation and genocide. We now have a much more sophisticated understanding of human genetics, but this eugenic spectre limps on in our culture, reinforcing a view of biology that is simplistic, deterministic and wrong.

Ilia Calderón is an Emmy Award–winning journalist, the co-anchor of Univision’s flagship evening newscast Noticiero Univision, and cohost of Univision’s primetime news magazine Aquí y Ahora. She is the first Afro-Latina to anchor a national weekday evening newscast for a major Hispanic broadcast network in the United States, having previously co-anchored three other news desks for Univision and two for Telemundo. She is the author of My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race (2020).

“Surviving Trouble Waters”

Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed when faced with your child’s challenging behaviors?
Do you find yourself struggling to stay calm?
You are not alone.
Human beings are built to reflect each other’s emotions. When our children display intense feelings and behaviors, our brains naturally reflect those. We start to feel stressed, angry, fearful, or overwhelmed just like our kids. You will learn practical strategies to be a calm center for your child’s emotional world.
After this class, you will be able to:

Lost Tribe, Broken Tribe, One Tribe–