Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Baianas de acarajé are primarily middle-aged, or senior Black women street vendors from the Northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia who wear headwraps, colorful beaded necklaces, and wide skirts, and sell typical Bahian foods with culinary origins in West Africa, most famously acarajé, a fried black-eyed pea fritter that gives them their name.

Kate Soules, PhD, Executive Director of the Religion and Education Collaborative

Join Middlebury Hillel for a fun PowerPoint night! Make a powerpoint about…well whatever you want and present it to others! 

Poverty infringes on personal autonomy in a myriad of ways. Having grown up homeless and largely dependent on the resources of social equity NGO’s, Treasure Brooks took issue with the limited menstrual products offered to people in need. In her talk “Blood Bound,” Brooks will reflect on her early work as a menstruation activist and creator of “Operation T.O.M.,” a grassroots organization designed to disseminate high quality menstruation products to houseless gender marginalized people.

Join us for a gathering to talk about our experience living in the United States! We will have some professors join us, too! Limited boba tea will be provided!

Join Middlebury alumni representing Bank of America to prep for summer internship roles, primarily in Global Corporate & Investment Banking (GCIB) and Global Markets. This event is designed for First Years and Sophomores.
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Students are invited to meet and network with Middlebury alumni to learn more about Bank of America’s commitment to Diversity and Inclusion and summer analyst opportunities for diverse candidates.
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Michael Alroy is an Israeli trans activist. He is coming to campus to talk about his journey coming out as a trans man in Israel, and how this impacted his relationship to religion.
To read more about his story, click on the link provided: https://app.hubspot.com/documents/23730061/view/480169230?accessId=e263…

A presentation on landscape ecology, land use change, biodiversity conservation, and ecological restoration in Chile by Dr. Adison Altamirano, Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of the Frontier (UFRO) in Temuco, Chile. This seimnar will be followed by a short reception at 5:15 pm for Dr. Altamirano and his colleague Prof. Alejandro Herrera Aguayo who is also a faculty member at UFRO in Anthropology. Sponsored by the Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest.

As part of the backlash against trans rights, conservative lawmakers in eight states have passed more than a dozen bills attempting to criminalize or restrict drag performances. Despite this marked increase in hateful rhetoric in the public sphere, drag performers across the country continue to make art, celebrate community, and find joy in the spaces they occupy. This joint talk and drag performance will consider what it looks like to counter hate with art, perform in the face of fear, and infuse unrestrained joy into activist projects.