Join us for the second convening of our Southern Summit on Philanthropy and the Academy!
Led by Dr. Sherry Magill, Duke and UNC-CH are exploring our most persistent problems, highlighting emerging challenges, and examining promising solutions. We’re connect the principle concerns of philanthropic foundations, higher education institutions, and southern communities. What are the missed connections and possibilities between these participants and institutions? What can we build if we work together?
Read more about the Southern Summit and the events and conveners involved here.
Schedule of the Second Residency (Nov 11–22)
PERSISTENT ISSUES: HOUSING AND HEALTH
+ Tuesday, Nov 12, 4-5:30 pm Public Panel: Housing Policy and Neighborhood Revitalization
Freedom Forum Conference Center, Carroll Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Presenters:
- Sherry Magill
- Paul Tutwiler
- Shannon Nazworth
- Jane Henderson
- Wight Greger
Suggested Resources:
- Southern Oral History Program, “African American Credit Unions: An Oral History”
- Amanda Brannon, “Experts: Jacksonville Has An Affordable Housing Shortage” (2019)
+ Wednesday, Nov. 13, 4-5:30 pm Public Panel: Health, Capital, and Philanthropy
Freedom Forum Conference Center, Carroll Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Presenters:
- Joan Alker
- Mark Holmes
- Lin Hollowell
- Rachel Seidman
Suggested Resources:
+ Thursday, Nov. 14, 12-1:30 pm Public Panel: Southern Community Capital
Center for the Study of the American South, Love House and Hutchins Forum, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Presenters:
- Martin Eakes
- Sherry Magill
Lunch Provided—please RSVP to Terri Lorant (tlorant@email.unc.edu)
EDUCATION AND THE FUTURE
+ Monday, Nov. 18, 4-5:30 pm Public Panel: Early Childhood Education Makes a Permanent Difference: Northern Neck, VA
Freedom Forum Conference Center, Carroll Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Presenters:
- Sherry Magill
- Laura Bailet
- Steve Suitts
- Jade Gaskin Hatcher
+ Thursday, Nov 21, 7:00 pm Film Screening + Discussion Full Frame Theater, Durham NC
AMERICA TO ME
Panelists to be announced
Suggested Resources:
- Participant Media, “America to Me Real Talk: Talking About Race, Identity, and Education”
- Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again” (1938)
- Sonia Nieto, “Affirmation, Solidarity, and Critique: Moving Beyond Tolerance in Multicultural Education” (1994)
About Sherry Magill, Ph.D.
Sherry Magill served as President/Executive Director of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, a private grantmaking foundation located in Jacksonville, Florida, from 1993-2018. During her tenure, Magill led the Fund’s court effort to increase the number of the Fund’s trustees and spearheaded development of the Jessie Ball duPont Center, a nationally recognized retrofitting and repurposing of the defunct Haydon Burns Library into a nonprofit and philanthropic center.
Prior to joining the Fund’s staff in 1991 as Program Officer for Education, Dr. Magill served as Vice President and Deputy to the President of Washington College, a small private liberal arts college located on Maryland’s Eastern Shore where she also taught courses in American Studies and on the American South.
She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Alabama and a doctorate in American Studies from Syracuse University. She has served as a senior moderator for the Aspen Institute, and is the founding executive director of the Wye Faculty Seminar, a nationally recognized enrichment program for professors teaching in the nation’s small colleges. Dr. Magill is recipient of numerous honors and awards recognizing her philanthropic and community service.
She has also served on numerous nonprofit boards, and currently serves as vice-chair of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation-Jacksonville (LISC) advisory committee, and as member of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center, and Virginia Community Capital boards.