Posted 3:47 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, 2024
‘Building belonging’ UWL’s Social Justice Week April 2
By Teri Holford, interim Outreach Librarian
UW-La Crosse will celebrate its annual Social Justice Week April 2-4 with the theme “Building belonging: Identities shaping communities.”
From the UWL Social Justice website, “The celebration, organized by UWL Diversity & Inclusion in partnership with the Social Justice Institute, features a series of public events where faculty, staff and students can share their research and stories, and start conversations about what social justice means to them. It will explore how identities and the intersection of identities shape people’s experiences as part of a community.”
Sponsored by Wisconsin Public Radio, DREAM, the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities, the College of Business Administration, the School of Education, the School of Visual & Performing Arts, the Office of Multicultural Student Services, and the UWL Parent Fund, the celebration will host three keynote speakers:
- Dina Zavala, formerly of UWL and currently vice president for Inclusion, Equity and Community at Carleton College
- Jonathan Locust, formerly associate vice president of Equity & Inclusive Excellence at Winona State University and currently founder/CEO of Locust Group consulting firm
- Nicole Collins, research associate for the Pluralism Project at Harvard University
Among the multiple sessions, Murphy Librarian Teri Holford will be presenting the results of her diversity analysis of the 5200+ picture books in the Alice Hagar Curriculum Center. “Animals, Objects and Other Non-Human Characters” will take place in 3120 Student Union on Tuesday, April 2 at 10:00 am.
Click here to register for the event.