Stacey Patton, PhD
Presenter
Dr. Stacey Patton is an adoptee, child abuse survivor, and former foster youth turned award-winning journalist, author, professor, and child advocate.
Her writings on race, education, child welfare, culture and politics have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Al Jazeera, BBC News, The Chronicle of Higher Education, NewsOne, and Black Enterprise Magazine.
She has appeared on CNN, ABC News, MSNBC, Fox News, Al Jazeera, and Democracy Now. She has received journalism awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, New York Women in Communications, Education Writers Association, Society of Professional Journalists, and New York Association of Black Journalists.
For her child advocacy work, Dr. Patton has received awards from the American Psychological Association and the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. She is the author of That Mean Old Yesterday (a memoir), Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won’t Save Black America, Not My Cat (a children’s book), and Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children, forthcoming from Beacon Press in October 2026.
She is the creator of sparethekids.
Dr. Patton teaches journalism at Howard University, and she is a research associate at Morgan State University’s Institute for Urban Research where she works on child welfare, education, and juvenile justice issues, as well as racial disparities in public health. She is a parrot mom to Lady Zora, and a dog mom to Sojourner.
Summit Session(s)
- Loving Black Children Like A Revolt – November 1, 2025 at 10:38 am
- When You Hit Me – November 1, 2025 at 1:30 pm
- When You Hit Me (Part II) – November 1, 2025 at 2:45 pm
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