Waverly Duck
I study everyday interactions with an emphasis on miscommunication. I am privileged to be part of a project that aims to offer tools for a deeper understanding of various forms of discrimination through experiential learning.
Waverly Duck is an urban ethnographer and the North Hall Chair Endowed Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for Black Studies Research at the University of California Santa Barbara. He is the author of No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing (University of Chicago Press, 2015), a finalist for the Society for the Study of Social Problems 2016 C. Wright Mills Book Award. His second book on unconscious racism, Tacit Racism, co-authored with Anne Rawls (also with the University of Chicago Press), was the 2021 winner of the Charles Horton Cooley Book Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2021 Honorable Mention, Mary Douglas Book Prize, the American Sociological Association Culture Section, the 2022 Book Award winner for the North Central Sociological Association and 2022 Winner of the Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award for the American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities.
Shari Hughson, RN, BScN, MBA
My passions and work are innovation and community well-being. I believe our ability to solve problems for people and the planet only comes from embracing different viewpoints, open curious minds, and rich lived experiences. I've lived and worked in a remote indigenous community and experienced a deep transformation in my life perspective and actions. This has created a need within me to contribute to our mission, impact society's ability to solve problems together, and build healthy diverse communities for the future.
Shari Hughson is an entrepreneur, educator, social innovator, & extreme adventurer. She started her first business in her 20s & won CIBC Entrepreneur of the Year before the age of 30. Shari recently won Canada’s Top 50 Most Influential Business & Entrepreneur Female Leaders of the Year in 2021 by SME Canada. Shari also won a 2013 National Honour from the First Nations Health Authority for a project that impacted the mental health of a remote indigenous community. She has owned 6 companies, and today is a Founder & Fractional C-Suite leader with Neuma Centre (CFO), Elev-Eight (CIO), and Waking the unConscious Tech (COO). She is also an Adjunct Professor at Queen’s University in Leadership, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Shari is passionate about making a global difference through grass-roots community leadership.
Lia Ahonen, Ph.D, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychology
As a Criminologist, researching young people’s mental health, delinquency, and victimization, I have encountered the stark social injustices that any person of color faces, especially in the criminal justice systems. I am interested in strengthening the evidence base of this training initiative and to contribute to awareness, and acknowledgement of, disparities in society.
Dr. Ahonen has a cross disciplinary background including Psychology, Criminology, and Social work. Her primary research areas include youth and adult crime in combination with mental illness, predictors of violence and gun violence, the development of violent crime over time, the treatment of serious behavioral problems, and policy issues pertaining to crime and justice in different countries. She has a particular interest in the development of delinquency and victimization in relation to the developing brain, and vice versa. During her career she has focused on both organizational conditions for behavioral change, including organizational development and leadership in institutions providing treatment and services to delinquent youth. In addition, her expertise is focused on as well as individual and environmental risk and protective factors for young people, with a specific interest in gender and race.
Henrika McCoy, MSW, MJ, PhD
My desire to engage in work that provides individuals with an opportunity to change in ways that increase the common good is core to who I am. I believe that such work is my responsibility to the world, and I feel privileged to be a part of WAKE^ because I know that our ground-breaking strategy can lead to change on a large scale.
Dr. Henrika McCoy is an associate professor of social work whose research has predominately focused on the: 1) intersection of mental health needs and contact with the juvenile legal system, particularly for African American boys and adolescents and 2) violent victimization experiences of Black male emerging adults ages 18 to 24. She is also highly sought out for her knowledge about the impact of racism in the personal and professional lives of African Americans.
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Waverly Duck
I study everyday interactions with an emphasis on miscommunication. I am privileged to be part of a project that aims to offer tools for a deeper understanding of various forms of discrimination through experiential learning.
Waverly Duck is an urban ethnographer and the North Hall Chair Endowed Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for Black Studies Research at the University of California Santa Barbara. He is the author of No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing (University of Chicago Press, 2015), a finalist for the Society for the Study of Social Problems 2016 C. Wright Mills Book Award. His second book on unconscious racism, Tacit Racism, co-authored with Anne Rawls (also with the University of Chicago Press), was the 2021 winner of the Charles Horton Cooley Book Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2021 Honorable Mention, Mary Douglas Book Prize, the American Sociological Association Culture Section, the 2022 Book Award winner for the North Central Sociological Association and 2022 Winner of the Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award for the American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities. He also co-authored and curated a new book with Anne Rawls and Kevin Whitehead, titled Black Lives Matter: Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic Studies of Race and Systemic Racism in Everyday Interaction (Taylor and Francis, 2020). Like his earlier work, his current research investigates the challenges faced by socially marginal groups. However, his work is more directly concerned with the interaction order of marginalized communities and how participants identify problems and what they think are viable solutions.
Shari Hughson, RN, BScN, MBA
My passions and work are innovation and community well-being. I believe our ability to solve problems for people and the planet only comes from embracing different viewpoints, open curious minds, and rich lived experiences. I've lived and worked in a remote indigenous community and experienced a deep transformation in my life perspective and actions. This has created a need within me to contribute to our mission, impact society's ability to solve problems together, and build healthy diverse communities for the future.
Shari Hughson is an entrepreneur, educator, social innovator, & extreme adventurer. She started her first business in her 20s & won CIBC Entrepreneur of the Year before the age of 30. Shari recently won Canada’s Top 50 Most Influential Business & Entrepreneur Female Leaders of the Year in 2021 by SME Canada. Shari also won a 2013 National Honour from the First Nations Health Authority for a project that impacted the mental health of a remote indigenous community. She has owned 6 companies, and today is a Founder & Fractional C-Suite leader with Neuma Centre (CFO), Elev-Eight (CIO), and Waking the unConscious Tech (COO). She is also an Adjunct Professor at Queen’s University in Leadership, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Shari is passionate about making a global difference through grass-roots community leadership.
Lia Ahonen, Ph.D, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychology
As a Criminologist, researching young people’s mental health, delinquency, and victimization, I have encountered the stark social injustices that any person of color faces, especially in the criminal justice systems. I am interested in strengthening the evidence base of this training initiative and to contribute to awareness, and acknowledgement of, disparities in society.
Dr. Ahonen has a cross disciplinary background including Psychology, Criminology, and Social work. Her primary research areas include youth and adult crime in combination with mental illness, predictors of violence and gun violence, the development of violent crime over time, the treatment of serious behavioral problems, and policy issues pertaining to crime and justice in different countries. She has a particular interest in the development of delinquency and victimization in relation to the developing brain, and vice versa. During her career she has focused on both organizational conditions for behavioral change, including organizational development and leadership in institutions providing treatment and services to delinquent youth. In addition, her expertise is focused on as well as individual and environmental risk and protective factors for young people, with a specific interest in gender and race.
Henrika McCoy, MSW, MJ, PhD
My desire to engage in work that provides individuals with an opportunity to change in ways that increase the common good is core to who I am. I believe that such work is my responsibility to the world, and I feel privileged to be a part of WAKE^ because I know that our ground-breaking strategy can lead to change on a large scale.
Dr. Henrika McCoy is an associate professor of social work whose research has predominately focused on the: 1) intersection of mental health needs and contact with the juvenile legal system, particularly for African American boys and adolescents and 2) violent victimization experiences of Black male emerging adults ages 18 to 24. She is also highly sought out for her knowledge about the impact of racism in the personal and professional lives of African Americans.
