Interests
Benjamin Weber, PhD
Historian & Writer
To advance brain health equity, we need to learn from comparative cultural conceptions of elder care and build community spaces for creative, inter-generational, interaction.
Current Work
Benjamin is a historian, writer, and associate professor whose current work explores music therapy and arts-based reentry for formerly incarcerated elders.
Personal Hero
Ella Baker
Words of Strength
Working from the heart, endless curiosity, and group-centered leadership
Vision
To advance brain health equity, he believes we need to learn from comparative cultural conceptions of elder care and build community spaces for creative, inter-generational, interaction.
Strategy
Benjamin is working on arts-based reentry programs for formerly incarcerated elders together with community groups.
Impact
As an Atlantic Fellow, Benjamin aims to work with community groups to bring compassionate, creative, care to formerly incarcerated elders and their loved ones.
Motivation
Benjamin believes we share responsibility for repairing the harms of historical wrongs like mass incarceration and the current crisis in lack of care for elders in the prison system and who are returning to the community.
Education & Experience
Benjamin is an associate professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis. He has worked at the Vera Institute of Justice, Alternate ROOTS, the Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, and as a public high school teacher in East Los Angeles. He received his PhD in History from Harvard University.
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