Join The Texas Tribune at 8 a.m. March 23 for a panel discussion on school safety and mental health, moderated by Tribune Editor in Chief Sewell Chan. The conversation will feature Odis Johnson Jr. of Johns Hopkins University and Kimberly Mata-Rubio, whose daughter was killed in the Robb Elementary School shooting.
This hourlong event, which was part of the SXSW EDU Conference and Festival, can be seen virtually on the Tribune’s site at 8 a.m. March 23.
It will be available to watch on demand afterward at texastribune.org/events.
Odis Johnson Jr., is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he has faculty appointments in the department of health policy and management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, in the school of education as executive director of the Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, and in the department of sociology at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. He also directs the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies (ICQCM). Johnson previously served as a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis, and chaired the African American Studies Department at the University of Maryland.
Kimberly Mata-Rubio is an award-winning journalist, having earned multiple first- and second-place awards from the regional South Texas Press Association and statewide Texas Press Association. She earned a bachelor of arts in history from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. Her 10-year-old daughter, Alexandria “Lexi” Rubio, was a victim of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde. Mata-Rubio has become an advocate for gun safety laws.
Ann Swindells Professor Of Clinical Psychology, Center For Digital Mental Health, University of Oregon
Nick Allen is the Ann Swindells Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oregon. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Ksana Health Inc, a company whose mission is to use research evidence and modern technology to revolutionize the delivery of mental health care through remote behavioral monitoring and adaptive, continuous behavior change support. He has been an expert scientific advisor to the World Health Organization, Google Health, the Jed Foundation, and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, amonst many others.
Sewell Chan joined The Texas Tribune as editor in chief in October 2021. Previously he was a deputy managing editor and then the editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times, where he oversaw coverage that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 2021. Chan worked at the New York Times from 2004 to 2018, as a metro reporter, Washington correspondent, deputy Op-Ed editor and international news editor. He began his career as a local reporter at the Washington Post in 2000. A child of immigrants, Chan was the first in his family to graduate from college. He has a degree in social studies from Harvard and a master's in political science from Oxford, where he studied on a British Marshall scholarship.
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