Recent Events

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Join this conversation with Shawna Shapiro, Associate Professor of Writing & Rhetoric/Linguistics, and Dima Ayoub, C.V. Starr Fellow in International Studies and Assistant Professor, Department of Arabic, about their recent community engaged course partnerships with immigrant and New American community members in Chittenden County with partners including the Somali Bantu Association and the Burlington School District. This event will be a reflective conversation with colleagues about ethics, approaches, and logistics specific to work with New Americans.

Understanding Power and Privilege

This workshop is focused on understanding systems of oppression, and the role that privilege & power play in community engagement.

Facilitators:
Dr. Hector Vila, Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric
Jacqueline Qiu ‘21, French and Political Science majors, Privilege & Poverty student staff
Anna Freund, Food Program Assistant at HOPE

Social Identities and Intersectionality

Reflect on your own social identities & how your intersecting identities affect the ways in which you build meaningful relationships with community.

Facilitators:
Crystal Jones, Assistant Director of Education for Equity and Inclusion
Rostyk Yarovyk, CCL student and CCE student staff
Priya Sudhakaran, CCL student

Ethical, Strengths-Based Community Engagement

This workshop is focused on understanding how community & individual strengths can be leveraged to enact social change and strengthen communities.

Facilitators:
Diane Munroe, Assistant Director for Community-Based Learning
Gabriella Chalker ‘24, CCL student and CCL Project Assistant
Pam Berenbaum, Director of the Global Health Program
Rae Donovan, Social-Emotional Learning Coordinator, Mt. Abe Unified School District

Reflective resources and discussion focusing on white complacency.

Readings include Dr. King’s 1967 American Psychological Association address and Brave Little State’s “Why Is Vermont So Overwhelmingly White?”

Reflective resources and discussion focusing on mass incarceration and the “school-to-prison pipeline.”

Materials include “Hard Lessons, Hard Times: The School-to-Prison Pipeline,” “A Word: From Schoolyards to Prisonyards,” 13th, “How and Why Black Male Incarceration Is Undermining Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Last Wish.’”

Reflective resources and discussion focusing on King’s thoughts on economic systems of oppression.

Readings include “The Uncompromising Anti-Capitalism of Martin Luther King Jr.” and “King on Capitalism: The Uncomfortable MLK.”

Reflective resources and discussion provided by the Scott Center.

Readings include “A Moral Policy Agenda to Heal and Transform America: The Poor People’s Jubilee Platform”, Rev. Barber’s Repairers of the Breach site, and On Being’s “Rev. Otis Moss III
The Sound of the Genuine: Traversing 2020 with ‘the Mystic of the Movement’ Howard Thurman”