Inclusive Pedagogy Webinar #4: Incorporate Activist Learning in the Classroom

Panelists

Kirsty Jones | Jones is an assistant professor of religion at Ashland University. With extensive practical experience in direct support and education with disabled people, Jones is passionate about ensuring equity in the classroom and equipping students to put their learning to work in their own communities.

Lorraine Cuddeback-Gedeon | Cuddeback-Gedeon is a research analyst with Catholic Relief Services, drawing on her background with action research and program evaluation to support their movement-building work. She completed both an MDiv (2012) and a PhD (2017) in religion and ethics at the University of Notre Dame and has been published in the Journal for the Society of Christian Ethics, Practical Matters, and the Journal of Moral Theology.

Facilitator

Devan Stahl | Stahl is an associate professor of bioethics and religion at Baylor University and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Education, Innovation, and Technology at the Baylor College of Medicine. She received her Ph.D. in Health Care Ethics from St. Louis University and her M.Div. from Vanderbilt University. She specializes in disability theology, bioethics, and the visual arts within medicine. Stahl also volunteers as a clinical ethicist consultant for the Supportive and Palliative Care Team at Baylor, Scott, and White Hillcrest and has trained as a hospital chaplain. She is the author of Disability’s Challenge to Theology: Genes, Eugenics, and the Metaphysics of Modern Medicine (Notre Dame Press), which develops a Christian response to genetic technologies using the insights of disability scholars. She also hosts the popular podcast Bioethics for the People, which explores the work of bioethicists for a general audience.