Description

The suicide rate in the LGBTQ community is one of the highest rates in any marginalized population. In this workshop, we’ll explore how the pandemic affected this population. We will also learn our Foundation’s trademarked strategy, ALP, to identifying risk and learning how to save lives.

Presented by

Elena Joy Thurston, Executive Director, Pride and Joy Foundation

Description

This presentation seeks to expand the arts-based research into academic and activist sphere, through embodiment of social justice movement #SayHerName through choreography and dance practice. Members will engage in choreographic processes and reflective post-questionnaire to unpack and personify central motifs of existing policies and systemic oppressions against Black women.

Presented by 

Rachel Mariah DeLauder, University of Delaware Exercise Science B.S. and Drexel University Dance/Movement Therapy & Counseling, MA Candidate 2021

Description

This session will accentuate the historical foundation of critical service-learning, highlight the implications of lacking diversity within local change and provide those who facilitate, recruit volunteers and organize community-centered events the tools to initiate conversations on power and service.

Presented by 

• Jazlin Coley, Service Coordinator for Equity and Inclusion / AmeriCorps Member, Drake University
• Sydnei Washington, Vice President of Neighborhood Relations / Equity and Inclusion Service Learning Ambassador, Drake University

Description

If racial injustice is a pandemic, the centering of marginal voices can be considered a powerful immunization. We investigate the role of radical self-care as one form of treatment in the pursuit of racial justice and explore the beneficial side-effect of collective healing for those engaged in this work. 

Presented by 

• Earl E. Lee, Director of Training Initiatives, Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Arizona
• Naomi J. Olson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Director, Study Abroad, Regis University

Description

When standard campus food pantries are partially or entirely devoid of needed food products, students begin encountering various barriers to accessing their individual food needs.

Participants will have the opportunity to learn about local-to-global connections in the food system, food and nutrient security, and food important to international student populations.

Presented by 

Sonya Sharififard, Research Associate, Pepperdine University