Tony Grist
One week from today, I will be participating in a conference on my home campus at Wake Forest University called “A Gun is Not Fun: Strategies to Keep Children Safe from Gun Violence.” I’m excited to have a voice in this conversation.
I posted some preliminary thoughts on my newly established Light Over Heat Substack, and also reposted my 2022 essay “What We Talk Abut When We Talk About ‘Gun Safety’” there.
A description of and registration information for the event follows. I don’t believe it will be recorded, but if you are near Wake Forest University next Monday, March 24th from 4-8pm, come on by!
The Wake Forest Center for Literacy Education is hosting its first annual Visiting Scholars Speaker Series and Community Networking Conference. on Monday, March 24, 2025. The event is free and open to the public. It will take place from 4:00 to 8:00 pm in Farrell Hall on the campus of Wake Forest University.
The specific topic of this year’s conference is titled “A Gun is Not Fun: Strategies to Keep Children Safe from Gun Violence.”
The keynote speaker is William Electric Black, aka Ian Ellis James., a seven-time Emmy Award winning writer for his work on Sesame Street and current faculty member at NYU’s Tisch School. You can read more about his work here.
The focus of the conference is on gun violence awareness and prevention in relation to our youngest learners. The Center for Literacy Education is imagining this event as a conversation that intersects areas such as health literacy, information literacy, early literacy, and family literacy.
Panelists are coming from all over the state to take part in this conversation. You can read their bios on the conference website. We invite you to join us and ask you to please consider sharing the flyer and website with any colleagues, students, and community members who might be interested. We ask that all attendees plan to register using the button at the top of the website.
Read the full article here
