In January, Verna attended the invite-only Women’s Rights Legal Roundtable at the Ford Foundation.

In February, she attended a conference entitled Critical Race Theory: From the Academy to the Community at Yale Law School in New Have, Connecticut, which happened to coincide with a a record-setting blizzard in the Northeast.  Braving the storm with Verna were colleagues Emily Houh and Yolanda Vazquez.

Also in February, Verna participated in Roundtable Discussion on “Representation, Race, and Justice in the Twenty-First Century” here at UC Law.  The Roundtable was part of the University of Cincinnati Black History Month Celebration.