The Center for Reconciliation (CFR) hosts regular meetings to foster understanding of topics related to conflict transformation, just peace, and reconciliation. CFR believes the way we engage conflict has the potential to support personal, community, and institutional transformation.  Join us for an in-person conversation on Wednesday, October 25, 2023, from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the 0013 Westbrook classroom. This event is part of the CFR Conversation Series.

Our presenter is the Rev. Dr. Yvette Pressley.  Dr. Pressley was the inaugural program coordinator for the Certificate in Conflict Transformation and Reconciliation (CCTR) at the Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School. Her teaching and practical ministry focus on interracial and inter-generational reconciliation in the body of Christ. Dr. Pressley is a former pastor in the United Methodist Church and executive director of The Bridge, an outreach ministry for marginalized communities in Lancaster County, S.C.  She has a B.A. in journalism from the University of South Carolina, an M.A. in theological studies from Erskine Theological Seminary, and a D.Min. from Duke Divinity School. She is also a certified family group conference facilitator, conference speaker, ESL tutor, and instructor of conflict transformation at Duke Divinity School. Her talk on October 25 is titled "Implicit Bias: What, So What, and Now What?"