Diversity Symposium
The KCC Diversity Symposium Committee presents the Fall 2021
Equity and Anti-Racism Summit (EARS) series:
“Dismantling Racist Systems and Structures: Standing with Allies and Advocates”
October 14th - November 12th
Thursday October 14, 2021 from 11:30am-1:30pm
What's Race Got to Do with It? Critical Race Theory and the Fight Against Erasure
Peter Santiago (AAS) and Michelle Billies (AH)
Critical Race Theory (CRT) says that studying the history of laws in the United States can help understand our society's ongoing racial disparities. So, why are so many states trying to prevent CRT from being taught in K-12 grades? We will discuss what CRT is, how laws are being passed to stop the history of racism from being taught, and the importance of assessing fact-based information.
Register in advance for this Zoom session:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUoce-pqTkiG9BWY_Gjxt_iKjELGYzw7jhU
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Monday October 18, 2021 from 11:00am-12:00pm
Keynote: Amber Cabral, Author – Advocates and Allies: Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Culture
Ms. Cabral is an Inclusion Strategist, certified coach, and speaker. She is formerly a Diversity Strategist at Walmart Stores, Inc. She founded Cabral Co, a diversity, equity and inclusive leadership focused consulting firm, to help organizations ignite behavior shifts to create inclusive cultures.
Register in advance for this Zoom session
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArf--oqTIuHNYWH1WXb4AS_ZT8mg7lWcHB
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Tuesday October 19, 2021 at 1:00pm-2:00pm
Virtual lecture with Filmmaker Heather Courtney: The Unafraid - Student Union and Intercultural Center (SU&IC)
THEY ARE UNDOCUMENTED. THEY ARE UNAPOLOGETIC. THEY ARE THEUNAFRAID. THE UNAFRAID is a feature-length documentary that follows the lives of three DACA students in Georgia,
a state that has banned them from attending its top public universities, and from
qualifying for in-state tuition at any other public college. Using observational footage
shot over three years, THE UNAFRAID tells the personal stories of a group of friends connected by an underground movement
called Freedom University. Through the stories of Alejandro, Silvia, and Aldo, viewers
learn what it's like to be both a young American and undocumented in the U.S. at a
time when anti-immigrant sentiment is growing, emboldened by a President who has issued
orders to end DACA and restrict immigration. The narratives of their lives will intersect
at protests and rallies, and then expand out from this unifying force to the personal
daily challenges faced by them and their families. THEUNAFRAID goes beyond the media’s portrayal of the ‘dreamer’ poster child and truly humanizes
the experience of undocumented and DACA students, their families and communities.
Film can be accessed from October 13th until October 26th. Link will be sent out on October 13, 2021.
Register in advance for this session:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEucu2hqj4vGdzi6Ue4Z2mla1UJTGRuEnn1
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Wednesday October 20, 2021 from 3:00pm-4:00pm
Art, Racial Justice & Equity: A discussion on social justice about homelessness
UnHomeless NYC Project, UC Davis Video Project, Imaging America, Jason Leggett (HIS),
Midori Yamamura (ART), Shaindy Weichmann (KCC Student), and Tommy Trieu (KCC Student)
The UnHomeless NYC program is “Combining the Arts and Science to Identify and Visualize the Causes for the Homelessness.”
Register in advance for this session:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88381172808?pwd=WDhBWjBVaCs3bWczWHVmcm9FbkJ5UT09
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Thursday October 21, 2021 at 11:30am-12:30pm
Art, Activism, and Allyship in the Struggle for Immigrant Justice Moderated by Libby Garland (HIS)
Register in advance for this session: Details coming soon!
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Thursday October 21, 2021 at 3:00pm
Undocually Training #1 Student Union and Intercultural Center (SU&IC)
The UndocuAlly training program is part of larger organizing effort to improve the experience of undocumented and DACAmented students on campus. The current political climate has generated significant fear and instability among our students in general and particularly undocumented and DACA students. Professors and staff, who interact with students on a daily basis, need more and better tools to work with increasing numbers of undocumented students on campus.
Register in advance for Undocually Training #1 meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAoce6hrDwsG9GR3JQomqQrJgcsKnLR26Mp
OR
Friday October 22, 2021 at 10:00am
Undocually Training #2 Student Union and Intercultural Center (SU&IC)
Register in advance for Undocually Training #2 meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pduChpj4rEt2fmg2YFlA08nUzcKzbW26o
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Monday October 25, 2021 from 3:00pm-5:00pm
Teaching as Political Action: Interrogating Our Pedagogical Practices as Community College Faculty and Staff Delia Hernandez (BEH) and Michelle Gabay (ENG)
Join us for an interactive workshop exploring the relationships between stereotypes,
prejudice, and discrimination and how they influence our beliefs and pedagogy. We
will engage in collaborative dialogue and reflection as we interrogate our own teaching
practices and examine the implications for community college students. Register in advance for this Zoom session:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckdumvqjorEt26E73YD36Mb29P31zdxsL8
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Thursday October 28, 2021 from 1:00pm-3:00pm
Infusing Equity in English Composition Courses Tisha Ulmer (ENG) and Paule Lafortune (Academic Affairs)
Register in advance for this Zoom session:
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Monday November 1, 2021 from 3:00pm-5:00pm
Teaching as Political Action: The Work Toward Institutional Change at Kingsborough
Join us for a panel moderated by Dr. Lisa Paler-Holzmann (BEH)
Dr. Carlos de Cuba (Comm and Performing Arts), Linguist and CRT: Language Diversity in the Classroom FIG Facilitator; Dr. Annie Del Principe (ENG), Composition Coordinator, Course Review Committee Facilitator; Dr. Keisha Thompson (BEH) Co-director of Historically Underrepresented Faculty and Staff – Resource Center
Register in advance for this Zoom session:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdutrT8tHNPIxF9g0LIkeT1yZ-i_LDbS
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Wednesday November 3, 2021 from 11:00pm-1:00pm
Social Movements are Our Best Teachers: A Panel Discussion
Lawrence Johnson (Faculty, Brooklyn College Anti-Racist Coalition (ARC)); Andrea Gonzalez (Student,
CUNY For Abolition and Safety (CAS)); Onyekachi Okeke (Student, CUNY For Abolition
and Safety (CAS)); Colin Ashley (Faculty, City College, organizer with People's Power
Assemblies) Moderator: Tony Alessandrini (Faculty, Kingsborough Community College,
Professor of Middle East Studies at CUNY Graduate Center, member of CUNY for Palestine
and Cross CUNY Working Group Against Racism and Colonialism)
Movements like BLM transform our consciousness and can be the best teachers of faculty
and students alike. Panelists will share their experiences in the BLM movement, what
they've learned and how it has impacted them as instructors, students, and human beings.
Register in advance for this Zoom session:
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Thursday November 4, 2021 from 3:00pm-5:00pm
Myths of Race, Realities of Inequality: An Anthropological Perspective
Join us for a virtual discussion of historical constructions of identity and today's persistent forms of racial and ethnic inequality.
Register in advance for this Zoom session:
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Tuesday November 9, 2021 at 1:00pm-2:00pm
Living Land Acknowledgement facilitated by the Lenape Center Student Union and Intercultural Center (SU&IC)
Lenape Center has the mission of continuing Lenapehoking, the Lenape homeland through community, culture, and the arts. Since 2009, Lenape Center based in Manhattan and led by Lenape elders has created programs, exhibitions, workshops, performances, symposia, land acknowledgment, and ceremonies to continue our Lenape presence. We push back against our erasure and seed the ground with Lenape consciousness for the next generations.
Register in advance for this meeting:
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Wednesday November 10, 2021 at 1:30pm-2:30pm
ADVOCATES AND ALLIES URGENTLY NEEDED: Dismantling a Racist Health Care System Top-down, Starts with Organizing from the Bottom Up Keasha S, Guerrier, MD
(Northwell Health) and Elizabeth Stevens (Coalition of Concerned Medical Professionals [CCMP])
Dr. Guerrier is a volunteer physician with CCMP and a member of their Board of Directors. Raised on Long Island by her West Indian-American parents, she received her medical education in Havana, Cuba at the Latin American School of Medicine. She is a family medicine doctor with Northwell Health and an instructor with Hofstra School of Medicine, with added expertise in Global Health.
Elisabeth Stevens is the Operations Manager and President of the Board of Directors at CCMP. Elizabeth served 43 years as a full-time volunteer organizer and advocate in low income communities in metropolitan New York.
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtf-2prDMoGNS3GC4EkOItguqCk0nqTFZx
Thank you KCC Community for supporting our 8th annual year of programming! The Diversity Symposium Committee’s EARS series is brought to you through a collaboration of faculty, staff, and students from various offices across campus and CUNY. Together we work to address diversity, equity, and social justice issues in efforts to raise awareness and create positive change within and outside of the KCC Community.
Acknowledgments:
The Office of the President
Provost Office
Office of Student Life
Student Union and Intercultural Center (SU&IC)
Access-Ability
BLM Teach In
HURFS-RC
Men’s Resource Center
