Student-athletes represent a distinguished population of resilient and high-performing individuals. However, for student-athletes of color, winning often requires them to also defeat the mighty foe of racism.

In honor of May as Mental Health Awareness Month, this Community Conversation will include a panel of mental health experts who work with student-athletes as they center racism as a mental health crisis, address the impact of racial trauma on the mental and physical well-being of student-athletes of color, and offer recommendations for healing and supporting this unique population of students.

Please join us for this conversation to learn how you may be a ‘player' in this game! Open to student-athletes of color and all who support them.

Moderator:
Ketra L. Armstrong, PhD
Director, Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport (C-RAES)

Panelists:
-- Caroline Brackette, PhD, Counselor, Assistant Dean, Associate Professor, Mercer University
-- Abigail Eiler, LMSW, Chief Diversity Officer, University of Michigan Athletics, Chair, Big Ten Mental Health Cabinet
-- Wilsa Charles Malveaux, MD, MA, Sports Psychiatrist, Registrant US Olympic, and Paralympic Committee Mental Health Registry
-- Kweku Ramel Smith, PhD, LP, Senior Clinical and Sport Psychologist
University of Wisconsin
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This event is free. Register at https://bit.ly/StudentAthleteMentalHealth
Event flyer: https://myumi.ch/O4wdE
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Part of the Steve Fund Community Conversations (https://stevefund.org/community-conversations/)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport (https://kines.umich.edu/C-RAES)