Join BSFO for Black History Month events this week
February 11, 2025 •
The Black Staff and Faculty Organization (BSFO) is celebrating Black History Month with a speaker series on the theme “The Crisis in Black Education.” All UCOP colleagues are invited to attend the events below.
The Crisis in Black Education, featuring Travis J. Bristol, Ph.D.
Tuesday, Feb. 11, 12 – 1 p.m. (PT)
Zoom ID: 983 8498 1036 | Zoom Link for Dr. Bristol event
Flyer for Dr. Bristol event (PDF)
Dr. Travis J. Bristol is an associate professor of teacher education and education policy at the UC Berkeley School of Education and, by courtesy, the Department of African American Studies.
Travis J. Bristol, Ph.D.
His scholarship draws on organizational and sociological frameworks to explore three interrelated research strands: (a) race and gender in schools (b) national, state, and local policies that enable and constrain the workplace experiences and retention of teachers of color; and (c) district and school-based educator professional learning communities for teachers of color. Dr. Bristol’s research has appeared in several peer-reviewed journals.
He is the coeditor of the “Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers,” published by the American Educational Research Association. His national awards include both dissertation and postdoctoral fellowships from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation (2013 and 2020) and the National Academies of Science/Ford Foundation (2013 and 2019); the inaugural teacher diversity research award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (2016); and the early career award from AERA’s Division-K (2021) and AERA (2024).
Dr. Bristol received his bachelor’s degree from Amherst College, his master’s degree from Stanford University, and his doctorate from Teachers College at Columbia University.
BSFO Valentine’s Day Appreciation in Oakland
Wednesday, Feb. 12, 12 – 1 p.m. (PT)
Oakland Franklin Lobby
Oakland staff are invited to stop by the BSFO table in the Franklin Lobby by the security desk to meet BSFO members and celebrate Valentine’s Day with a rose.
The Crisis in Black Education, featuring Kamau Sadiki
Thursday, February 13, 12 – 1 p.m. (PT)
Zoom ID: 932 7640 1378 | Zoom link for Kamau Sadiki
Kamau Sadiki is a board of directors member and lead instructor of Diving with a Purpose (DWP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation and protection of submerged heritage resources by providing education, training, certification and field experience to adults and youth in the fields of maritime archaeology and ocean conservation. DWP’s special focus is the protection, documentation and interpretation of African slave trade shipwrecks and the maritime history and culture of African Americans.
Acclaimed diver Kamau Sadiki
Kamau participated on the field mission that confirmed the discovery of the slave ship Clotilda in the Mobile River in Alabama, the last slave ship to bring captured Africans into the USA. He was a member of the dive team that documented the slave shipwreck Sâo José Paquete de Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, the first slave ship documented in which captured Africans were aboard during the wrecking event. He has worked on multiple shipwreck sites around Mozambique Island, Mozambique, and shipwrecks in the NOAA Thunder Bay, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries and Biscayne National Marine Park off the southern Florida coast and in St. John, United States Virgin Islands. In August 2015, he was a member of the first underwater archaeology field team to document a Tuskegee Airmen P-39 Airacobra airplane that crashed in Lake Huron, one of five that crashed in the lake during WWII training.
Kamau is the immediate past president of the National Association of Black Scuba Divers (NABS). He is a lifetime NABS member and served as its vice president from 2011 to 2017. He is a member of the Class of 2006 Underwater Adventure Seekers Scuba Diving Club based in Washington, D.C., a founding club of NABS. He is a certified divemaster by the Professional Association of Diving Instructors.
For questions on these events, contact Joyce Price, joyce.price@ucop.edu or Roni Wilson, roni.wilson@ucop.edu.
Tags: Black history, Black History Month, BSFO, Kamau Sadiki, research, Travis J. Bristol, UC Berkeley
