Join the Center for Racial Justice for our 2025-2026 Visiting Fellows Spring Showcase. The Fellows will discuss their work challenging dominant narratives around race, power, and place, with perspectives on suburban life, policing, and the role of art in social change. Lunch provided.

This event is free and open to U-M students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members.

Accessibility note: the event will not be live-streamed, but a captioned recording will be sent to all registrants afterwards. Presenters will use microphones.

About the Visiting Fellows

Holly Bass is an award-winning, socially-engaged artist working across multiple disciplines including dance, theater, visual art and writing. She has collaborated with governmental agencies, cultural institutions, nonprofit organizations and academic communities to create innovative artistic experiences that foster connection among groups of strangers.

Ayesha Bell Hardaway, JD, is a Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University where she serves as Director of the Law School's Social Justice Law Center and its Criminal Defense Clinic. Professor Hardaway's research and scholarship interests include the intersection of race with constitutional law, criminal law, policing, and civil litigation.

R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy (PhD '08) is a scholar whose work and activism center issues of race, place, education, and opportunity. He is an Associate Professor at New York University in the Sociology of Education program in the School of Culture, Education and Human Development. His larger research interests include race and racism, gender justice, and community mobilization.