‘Café en casa’ with mother and daughter Paula and K. Melchor Quick Hall: Watch the Recording
Note: On July 6th, 2022, mother and daughter, Paula and K. Melchor Quick Hall--respectively founder and executive director of the African American Education & Research Organization (AAERO)-- came together for a 'Café en casa' discussion on what it means to achieve greater equality, liberation, and human dignity at the local, national, regional, and global levels.
'Café en casa' is a virtual series created by the Miami Institute for the Social Sciences and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS), bringing together adult children and movement elders in dialogue on research and memory.
Biographies:
Founder of the African American Education & Research Organization (AAERO) and Melchor-Quick Meeting House, with experience at The College Board, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Niagara Falls Board of Education, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Research and Evaluation Associates, and three NC HBCUs, Dr. Paula Quick Hall blends her experiences as a daughter, mother, and grandmother with her formal education-- Bachelor of Science in psychology from Howard University, Master of Public Administration from the University of Southern California, and Ph.D. in political science from University of North Carolina.
K. Melchor Quick Hall, PhD is a popular educator, writer, and researcher. Hall is the author of Naming a Transnational Black Feminist Framework: Writing in Darkness, and co-editor, with Gwyn Kirk, of Mapping Gendered Ecologies: Engaging with and Beyond Ecowomanism and Ecofeminism. She is both a Resident Scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center (WSRC) and the Executive Director of the African American Education & Research Organization (AAERO) @ Melchor-Quick Meeting House (MQMH), founded by her mother and first teacher, Paula Quick Hall. At Pendle Hill Quaker Retreat and Conference Center, Hall co-leads a writing workshop for people of color, a reparations workshop for US-based, white inheritors of wealth, and an artist-led freedom visioning workshop for individuals interested in our shared liberation.
