Please join us on campus Friday, November 18th at 11:30 AM in The Spencer Family Theater for our annual Caroline ‘Dash’ Davis Gleiter Lecture on Social Justice.  This lecture series highlights social justice issues and was initiated by the class of 1951 in memory of their classmate, Caroline ‘Dash’ Davis Gleiter, an attorney whose life work and passion were devoted to civil rights and social action.  

This year’s speaker will be John Torrey, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a contributing professor in the Africana Studies unit at SUNY Buffalo State. His talk will be on the topic of reparations.  We are looking forward to welcoming John back to campus after his engaging Community Meeting presentation on critical race theory last year.

Bio:
John Torrey is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a contributing professor in the Africana Studies unit at SUNY Buffalo State. He holds a BA in Philosophy and Spanish from Morehouse College and an MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Memphis. His primary research interest is the interconnection between moral arguments for reparations for Black people and their political limits in America. He currently serves on the Academic Advisory Board of PLATO (Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization). As part of his work as a public philosopher, he was appointed in 2020 to Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown’s Commission to Recommend Police Policy and Advance Social Reconstruction, and was elected to the Board of Ethics for the City of Buffalo in 2022 and appointed to the 400 Years of African-American History Commission for New York State in 2022.