So You Think You Know Civics Speaker Series – “What is Civic Participation?”

NJCH is proud to sponsor Morven Museum and Garden’s “So You Think You Know Civics” Speaker Series. Up next in the series is “What is Civic Participation?” a presentation by Hyacinth Miller, Assistant Teaching Professor in the Rutgers University – Newark School of Arts and Sciences Africana Studies and Political Science Departments.

About the Event

Professor Miller will lead attendees in an engaging, interactive discussion about what it means to participate in our civic system, exploring the ways in which we currently contribute and can work to make change for everyone in our communities.

This free event is hybrid – held both in-person in Morven’s Stockton Education Center and virtually via Zoom webinar. Q&A for live and virtual attendees will follow the talk. A webinar link will be shared with virtual ticket holders upon registration. A recording of the event will be shared following the program.

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About the Speaker

Hyacinth Miller is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Rutgers University–Newark, where she teaches in both the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of Political Science. She also lectures in Latino and Caribbean Studies and Political Science at Rutgers–New Brunswick. She teaches courses on Africana Studies, Caribbean studies and politics, and comparative politics. Her research interests explore Black immigrant political incorporation, Caribbean political development, and race/ethnicity/identity politics.

Hyacinth also directs the Public Service Leadership Program at the Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America and is a co-founder of the Rutgers University Atlantic Reparatory Justice Research Lab. Her extensive professional background includes roles in government affairs, criminal justice reform, and development, with experience at the JEHT Foundation, the Association for Paroling Authorities International, New York City Council and the U.S. House of Representatives.

Also a PhD candidate in the Joint PhD Program in Global Urban Studies and Urban Systems at Rutgers, Hyacinth’s doctoral research focuses on Black women in elected office. Her previous scholarly work includes a refereed journal article on West Indian political representation in New Jersey and various research projects in Colombia, Panama, the USVI and South Korea.

Her commitment to advancing the understanding of Black women in politics [locally and globally] and the political dynamism of the Caribbean and African region and diaspora is evident through her research, teaching, and service.