Speaker
Jacquelyn Hunt
Advisor, “Why Race Matters” PBS Wisconsin
Jacquelyn Hunt is a caring, compassionate professional with more than 20 years of experience in the substance abuse/mental health field. She provides culturally relevant, strength-based and trauma-informed care. Ms. Hunt knows firsthand what it’s like to be marginalized and in need of supportive services. Her own testimony of recovery, redemption and restoration provides the foundation for her work and allows for just the right balance to support consumers — to instill in them the belief that they, too, can overcome and become all that they want to be. She has received numerous awards and recognitions. Most recently she was awarded the 2020 Nan Chaney March for Justice Award; she also was named one of Madison 365’s most influential Black leaders in the state of Wisconsin (2017), received the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.’s Humanitarian Award (2016), and called a Brava Magazine Woman to Watch (2015).
Speaking in
Why Race Matters: Being Black in Wisconsin
What’s it like to be Black in a predominantly white state like Wisconsin? Host Angela Fitzgerald and the advisors of the PBS Wisconsin series Why Race Matters explore how they developed a show to raise awareness of disparities in our state and tackle topics important to people who identify as Black living in Wisconsin.
Session Objectives
- Gain a better understanding of the disparities that exist in our state and the structures and systems that contribute to those disparities