{"id":20984,"date":"2016-07-28T13:58:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T17:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?p=20984"},"modified":"2016-07-28T14:33:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T18:33:56","slug":"addressing-bias-visiting-scholar-deleso-alford-discusses-cultural-competence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2016\/07\/28\/addressing-bias-visiting-scholar-deleso-alford-discusses-cultural-competence\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing bias: visiting scholar Deleso Alford discusses cultural competence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Deleso A. Alford visited Stetson law school\u2019s Gulfport campus briefly this summer, she brought with her an important goal: collaboration.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20989\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20989\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MG_5175_DAlford.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MG_5175_DAlford-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Deleso Alford visited Stetson law school in July.\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Deleso Alford visited Stetson law school in July.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Florida A&amp;M University law professor\u2019s research and teaching focuses on building a framework for cultural competence through the lens of personal narratives that shapes the way we see and understand each other.<\/p>\n<p>During her short time as a visiting scholar at Stetson, Professor Alford met with both administrative and law faculty; staff in the Veterans Advocacy Clinic, Center for Excellence in International Law, Office of Career Development; and spoke with student leaders.\u00a0She videotaped an interview with Black Law Student Association student president Kaarl Brandon and conducted research at Stetson\u2019s Dolly &amp; Homer Hand Law Library.<\/p>\n<p>During her Stetson visit, Professor Alford also met with University of South Florida Health leadership and faculty. Stetson and USF offer a dual degree program in law and public health, and Stetson\u2019s Veterans Advocacy Clinic and USF Health are legal and health care advocacy partners who work together to improve access to veterans benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Alford holds J.D. and LL.M. degrees respectively from the Southern University Law Center and Georgetown University Law Center, and is currently seeking a Certificate in Clinical Bioethics from the Medical College of Wisconsin. She teaches law school courses on torts, race and the law, bioethics and the law, and critical race theory at Florida A&amp;M. Professor Alford also serves on the adjunct faculty and co-directs integrated curriculum for the Culture, Health and Society Longitudinal Curricular Themes at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Alford explained how she uses the lens of both historical and \u201cher-storical\u201d narratives to improve students\u2019 focus on abstract concepts. In her work in medical education, Professor Alford discussed how she illustrates the issue of healthcare disparity through the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman whose cells were taken without her knowledge or permission to be used in experiments that led to decades of path-breaking medical discoveries for vaccines and other treatments. Lacks\u2019 case ignited legal and ethical debates over a patient\u2019s rights to their own genetic material. Professor Alford described how exposing medical students to the Lacks story builds a framework for ethics rooted in cultural competence. Medical students become more aware of what it means to treat a patient differently based on culture, race, sex or education. In the same way, Alford said that law students and members of the legal profession can improve their understanding of clients\u2019 needs by enriching their own cultural competency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA culturally competent lawyer who practices cultural humility needs to accept and address bias,\u201d said Alford, who disagrees with Justice Harlan stating in the dissent in <em>Plessy v. Ferguson<\/em> that \u201cour Constitution is colorblind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to deal with the notion of colorblindness in order to have cultural competency in the law,\u201d said Alford. \u201cWe need culturally competent advocates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Alford is the senior editor of the award-winning \u201cEnslaved Women in America: An Encyclopedia,\u201d and numerous articles. She is working on her\u00a0forthcoming book, \u201cTuskegee\u2019s Forgotten Women: The Untold Side of the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study.\u201d Professor Alford has lectured around the world, in Brazil, England and most recently in Cuba where she also moderated a panel of Cuban lawyers and judges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Deleso A. Alford visited Stetson law school\u2019s Gulfport campus briefly this summer, she brought with her an important goal: collaboration. The Florida A&amp;M University law professor\u2019s research and teaching focuses on building a framework for cultural competence through the lens of personal narratives that shapes the way we see and understand each other. 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