Richmond, VA
Disrupting the Lost Cause Narrative: Protest and Healing in the Capital of the Confederacy
Tuesday, March 23, 3 p.m. PT | 6 p.m. EST
Speakers: Lauranett Lee, Historian and Member of the Monument Avenue Commission, and Brian Palmer, Peabody Award-Winning Journalist
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In 1890, a 21-foot-high statue of Robert E. Lee, the first Confederate on what became Monument Avenue, was installed in Richmond, Virginia. Four other monuments on the avenue, symbols of Lost Cause ideals, came down this past summer after protesters took to the streets. Today, the Lee Monument is the last Confederate monument standing due to current litigation – but it has been transformed by paint and community activism. Dr. Lauranett Lee, historian and member of the Monument Avenue Commission, and Brian Palmer, Peabody Award-winning journalist, will speak about memorialization, protest, and healing in the former Capital of the Confederacy. University of Richmond students studying Monumental Change with Dr. Nicole Maurantionio, associate professor of rhetoric and communications studies, will then lead us in conversation.
Hosted by the University of Richmond’s Bonner Center for Civic Engagement
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Tucson, AZ
Border Stories: Immigration and Humanitarian Work
Friday, March 26, 3 p.m. PT | 6 p.m. EST
Speakers: Lauren Kostes - Managing Attorney, Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project; Vivekae Kim, Co-Founder, Stories from the Border; Meena Venkataramanan - Co-Founder, Stories from the Border; Jason Reed, Chief Innovation Officer, The Society of St. Vincent de Paul
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Stories about border walls, migrant caravans, and family separations have made national news headlines in recent years, but what does justice look like for the 33,000 migrants that were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in prisons and private facilities this past year? During this session, Lauren Kostes, Managing Attorney at the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, Jason Reed, Chief Innovation Officer at The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, along with Meena Venkataramanan and Vivekae Kim, co-founders of Stories from the Border, will share their perspectives on the multitude of challenges facing undocumented immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Arizona. Students will learn about advocacy and human rights efforts through legal, journalistic, and humanitarian frameworks.
Hosted by Harvard's Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship
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New Haven, CT
Ending the Incarceration Cycle: Finding your Role in Local Communities
Tuesday, March 30, 3 p.m. PT | 6 p.m. EST
Speakers: Alden Woodcock, Executive Director, EMERGE Connecticut, Inc., Maurice Keitt, Supervisor/Peer Mentor, EMERGE Connecticut, Inc., and Tabari Hashim, Assistant Supervisor, EMERGE Connecticut, Inc.
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Yale undergraduates and graduate students regularly partner with local reentry nonprofit and social enterprise EMERGE Connecticut, Inc., located in the Wooster Square neighborhood of New Haven, CT. Whether through volunteer projects, semester-long internships, or employment, Yale students have learned immensely from supporting EMERGE's unique, trauma-informed reentry model. This panel conversation on an EMERGE-Yale network confronting the effects of mass incarceration on communities will feature Maurice Keitt, a former Yale employee and now EMERGE Supervisor/Peer Mentor; Tabari Hashim, Assistant Supervisor and former crewmember at EMERGE; and EMERGE Executive Director Alden Woodcock.
Hosted by Dwight Hall at Yale, Center for Public Service and Social Justice
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Chapel Hill, NC
Speak Their Names
Wednesday, March 31, 3 p.m. PT | 6 p.m. EST
Speakers: Jim Leloudis and Patricia Parker, Co-Chairs of the UNC Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward
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The University Commission on History, Race, and a Way Forward at UNC-Chapel Hill was formed in 2019 and formally charged by the Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz in February of 2020 to "explore, engage and teach the University’s history with race, and provide recommendations on how we as a University community must reckon with the past." Over the past year, its 19 members have been re-examining the University’s legacy regarding race, including structures built by enslaved people on indigenous lands and named for slaveholders, Confederates and white supremacists. Along with other work, the Commission has initiated the process for the removal of the names of four white supremacists from University buildings, which was approved by the Board of Trustees; begun preparing for the recommendations for the removal of additional names to be presented to the chancellor; and created a roster of more than 150 enslaved people who built and maintained the University. In this session participants will learn more about the Commission’s work in identifying those enslaved people, exploring the history and seeing the archival records used in their work.
Hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Carolina Center for Public Service
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Stanford, CA
Confronting the Past: Stanford University and Its Fraught History with the Ohlone and Chinese
Tuesday, April 6, 3 p.m. PT | 6 p.m. EST
Speakers: Gordon Chang, Senior Associate Vice Provost for Under Graduate Education and the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities, and Laura Jones, Director Of Heritage Services And University Archaeologist
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The Stanford University campus, comprising over 8,100 acres, was once home to an estimated 10,000 Muwekma-Ohlone Indians living in small communities throughout the Bay Area. Understanding of the history of Stanford University, and the land upon which it sits, is deeply contested and has far-reaching implications for how we see the institution today. As an institution that stands for humanistic values, it must contend with troubling elements in its past that profoundly challenge those values and hinder the development of the University as fully inclusive and welcoming. Our talks will present new insights into the lands of Stanford, the Stanford family and early University, and the institution’s relationship with Native peoples, Chinese, and other communities that were long excluded from the traditional narrative of the rise of the University.
Hosted by Stanford University’s Haas Center for Public Service
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Durham, NC
Mapping Social Justice Movements in Durham
Wednesday, April 7, 5 p.m. PT | 8 p.m. EST
Speakers: Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice
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This virtual tour is about what protests and social justice activism have looked like in Durham, NC. This tour will reflect on how power structures related to race, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, class, and ability have oppressed groups in the past and present. Together, we’ll get a chance to examine what effective activists have done, such as using their political power, providing financial resources, or raising awareness, to aid the activism efforts against structural discrimination. Everyone will be invited to reflect on their personal experience with activism and how we might deconstruct these harmful power structures.
Hosted by Duke Civic Engagement
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Providence, RI
The Real Montgomery Bus Boycott
Friday, April 9, 3 p.m. PT | 6 p.m. EST
Speaker: Marco McWililams, Public Scholar, Published Writer, and Activist
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Marco McWilliams is an educator and public scholar of African-American history and is currently a program coordinator at Brown University's Swearer Center for Public Service. McWilliams is a Mississippi-born activist, educator, and is the founding organizer and former deputy director of the Providence Africana Reading Collective (PARC). He is also a founding director of the Black Studies program at DARE, and an organizer with Behind the Walls, DARE’s prison abolition committee. McWilliams is the founder of the Providence Black Studies Freedom School, a free political education project focused on providing theoretically grounded and engaged historical instruction for members of Providence’s diverse communities. The Real Montgomery Bus Boycott will examine how working-class Black women organized to break the chains of southern segregation and advanced the struggle for Black liberation.
Hosted by Brown University's Swearer Center for Public Service
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New Orleans, LA
Public Art as a Form of Activism and Untold Narratives of BIPOC Voices
Tuesday, April 13, 5 p.m. CST
Speakers: Brandan “BMike” Odums, Lead Artist & Curator and Studio BE, and Frederick "Wood" Delahoussaye, Artistic Director at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center
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Brandan “BMike” Odums is a New Orleans-based visual artist who, through exhibitions, public programs, and public art works, is engaged in a transnational dialogue about the intersection of art and resistance. From film to murals to installations, Odums’ work encapsulates the political fervor of a generation of Black American activists who came of age amidst the tenure of the nation’s first Black president, the resurgence of popular interest in law enforcement violence, and the emergence of the self-care movement. Most often working with spray paint, Odums paints brightly-colored, wall-sized murals that depict historical figures, contemporary creatives, and everyday people. In his otherwise figurative work, Odums departs from realism to play with color – blending lavender to paint the skin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King and robin’s egg blue for Harriet Tubman, for instance – suggesting an ethos of boldness that unites the subjects of his work and surpasses race, time, or any other aspect of physical reality. Join us for conversation with BMike and Fredrick “Wood” Delahoussaye, the Artistic Director at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center of New Orleans, as we explore the use of Public Art in all spaces.
Hosted by Tulane University's Center for Public Service
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Lone Pine, CA
History Revoiced: Opening the Classroom to Stories that Change Our World
Friday, April 16, 3 p.m. PT | 6 p.m. EST
Speakers: Kathy Bancroft, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation and Cultural Resources Monitor for Owens Lake, Pat Steenland, Continuing Lecturer for the College Writing Programs at UC Berkeley, and UC Berkeley students Sera Smith and Sage Alexander
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The genocide that happened to Native peoples in California has been conclusively documented. But we have barely begun to confront its cultural, historical, and emotional impact.The University of California, Berkeley, sits on indigenous land and still holds over 10,000 unrepatriated ancestors. In the wake of this unacknowledged genocide in which higher education has been complicit, how can university classrooms and students grapple with this legacy? Can classrooms truly partner with native communities and educators to imagine new institutional spaces and ways of learning? This multi-year partnership between a Berkeley class and Tribal leaders from the Eastern Sierra's Payahuunadü (renamed the Owens Valley) asks these questions.
Hosted by the University of California, Berkeley's Public Service Center
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San Francisco, CA
Beyond the Dream
Tuesday, April 20, 1 p.m. PT | 4 p.m. EST
Speaker: Sheryl Davis, Executive Director of the SF Human Rights Commission
In this session, we will explore how activists of the past and conscientious rappers of today used their words to encourage action. Dr. King talked about his dream, Langston Hughes wrote about a dream deferred. What does that mean today? How do the lyrics of Chance the Rapper and Kendrick Lamar unite, encourage or motivate? Participants will consider how poetry and music can bring us together in conversations and help develop an action plan to address challenges in community.
Hosted by the University of San Francisco's McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good
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Trenton, NJ
Change with The Trenton Circus Squad
Tuesday, April 20, 3 p.m. PT | 6 p.m. EST
Speakers: Members of the Trenton Circus Squad
The Trenton Circus Squad is a youth centered and led circus arts and community engagement organization founded and running in New Jersey’s capital city of Trenton. Trenton’s rich history and vibrant community is showcased through the youth who make up the Squad, the community they build, and neighbors they coach. During the summer of 2020, the Squad researched and created a show and community discussions called Change, inspired by social issues they care about like police brutality, COVID-19, and sexual harassment. Join us while we introduce you to Trenton, screen the show’s film, and discuss these issues and community based solutions.
Hosted by Princeton University's Pace Center for Civic Engagement
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Boston, MA
Climate Change in Boston: Social Determinants, Equity, and Action
Wednesday, April 21, 3 p.m. PT | 6 p.m. EST
Join us for a Climate Interactive Simulation that considers the social determinants of climate change, equity, and action options. Following the simulation, we’ll meet with Climate Ready Boston to consider who is most vulnerable to Climate Change in Boston, as well as learn about local organizations working toward equity and effective community preparation. We’ll also brainstorm personal methods of making a difference and point to efforts across MIT and beyond.
Hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center
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