How Social Class Shapes Who We Become

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🧠 Lecture: "How Social Class Shapes Who We Become"

🎙️ Speaker: Dr. Chelsea Taber-Cory

Class is one of the most powerful forces shaping who we become—our development, our sense of self, and how we move through the world—yet it’s rarely discussed openly. In this engaging lecture, Dr. Chelsea Taber-Cory draws on developmental psychology, social work research, and the lived realities of low-income communities to explore how socioeconomic status shapes cognitive development, mental health, identity, and access to opportunity from birth through adulthood.

She will examine the psychological impacts of poverty, resource scarcity, and class-based stigma, as well as the systemic conditions that keep inequality in place across generations. Drawing on her clinical practice, original research, and perspective as a first-generation college graduate, Dr. Taber-Cory offers both a rigorous framework and an honest, personal lens on class as a psychological and social force—and what it means to imagine a world where it no longer determines destiny.

Dr. Taber-Cory is a social work researcher, educator, and clinician with nearly a decade of experience in Bay Area school districts and adjunct faculty roles at multiple universities.

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Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.