A New Annual Signature Series on Global Black Communities and Mental Health

Featuring guest speaker Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin

March 20, 2024, will mark the fifth anniversary of the tragic death of Osaze Osagie, a former Penn State student killed by local police during a mental health event. In honor of Osagie’s memory, the Africana Research Center and the College of the Liberal Arts are establishing an annual “Global Black Communities and Mental Health” series. The highlight of the series will be an Osaze Osagie Memorial Lecture featuring a leading domestic or international scholar in areas of race and mental health. The inaugural series event will feature a public conversation with Sybrina Fulton, racial justice activist and mother of Trayvon Martin, a child unjustly killed more than a decade ago.

About the Speaker
Sybrina Fulton is dedicating her life to transforming family tragedy into social change. Since the death of her seventeen year old son, Trayvon Martin, during the violent confrontation in 2012, Fulton has become an inspiring spokesperson for parents and concerned citizens across the country.

Co-sponsors
Penn State co-sponsors for the series include the Paul Robeson Cultural Center; Center for Social Change and Belonging; Division of Undergraduate Studies; College of Health and Human Development; Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing; College of Arts and Architecture; College of Agricultural Sciences; College of Earth and Mineral Sciences; College of Education; Eberly College of Science; College of Engineering; College of Medicine; Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications; Penn State Dickinson Law and the Penn State Dickinson Law Antiracist Development Institute; Penn State Law and the School of International Affairs; Schreyer Honors College; Smeal College of Business; College of Information Sciences and Technology; The Graduate School; University Libraries; the Office of the Vice Provost for Educational Equity; and the Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses.

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