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Matiangai Sirleaf
@matiangai.bsky.social
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Scholar. Writer. Teacher. Advocate.
https://matiangai.com

Order Race & National Security (OUP 2023) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/race-and-national-security-9780197648230?lang=en&cc=us
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Excerpts from my recent interview with @laconverse.bsky.social. The full article is available in English www.laconverse.com/en/tag/inves... and French www.laconverse.com.
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August 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Register for Maryland's Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission hybrid public hearing on April 4th and 5th: mdlynchingmemorial.networkforgood.com/events/79416...

Expert witnesses will give tesimony on how MD can address its legacy of racial terror and potentially prevent harm in the present.
The Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission will hold a public hearing in Maryland on April 4th and 5th, 2025, as part of its ongoing effort to bring awareness to Maryland's history of racial violence and to foster reconciliation in the present. HEARING DETAILS When: Friday, April 4, 2025 and Saturday, April 5, 2025 Time (in person and streaming): 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Where: Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, 830 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 Reparations as Justice: Economic, Legal, and Social Pathways to Repair. Photographs from right to left: moderator Comissioner Dr. Nicholas Creary. Panelists: Dr. William Darity, Prof. Joel Edward Goza, Dreisen Heath, Prof. Marcus Anthony Hunter, Prof. Matiangai Sirleaf
April 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Hope for realizing a healthier world and transformation in global public health: social movements, young minds, innovation from the Global South, capacity for learning, and compromise. ICYMI @roojinhabibi.org @fifarahman.bsky.social @clarewenham.bsky.social Dr. Andraghetti & I 👇🏿
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Flyer announcing Towards Transformation in Global Public Health Panel on Feb. 27th with pictures and titles of the four panelists and moderator: from right to left Roberta Andraghetti, Technical Officer World Health Organization, Roojin Habibi, Assistant Professor, Univ. of Ottawa, Fifa Rahman, Principal Consultant, Mathari, Clare Wenham, Associate Professor, London School of Economics & Political Science, Matiangai Sirleaf, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Picture in MD Carey Law stairwell in front of symbols of justice from right to left: Connor Lemma, EiC Maryland Journal of International Law (MJIL), Professor Habibi, Professor Sirleaf, Professor Wenham, Halla McDermon, Symposium Editor, MJIL, Dr. Rahman Panelist seated at table from right to left: Professor Habibi, Dr. Rahman, Professor Wenham, Professor Sirleaf
March 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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ICYMI @seyeabimbola.bsky.social and I in convo on global health's past, present and potential futures is available here youtu.be/7JjUTi0q9OM?...

We discuss how zones of sacrifice, power, privilege,
racism, coloniality, the foreign gaze, White
supremacy & saviorism
shape global health then and now.
Image of the globe as a virus with the bottom two-thirds of people in the Global South falling off or barely hanging on, while the top third of people in the Global North stand on gold waiting in line to get vaccinated. Image of Matiangai Sirleaf, her institutional affiliation and title of talk White Health as Global Health. Image of Matiangai Sirleaf and Seye Abimbola
December 10, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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Allow me to reintroduce myself, my name is Matiangai Sirleaf (Ma-tee-ahn-gay Sir-leaf).

I am the Nathan Patz Professor of Law at the UMD School of Law.

I hold a secondary appointment as a professor in the Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health at the UMD School of Medicine.

Views are mine 👇🏿
November 13, 2024 at 4:27 PM