It’s been 3 years since the March For Our Lives and the work to end gun violence is as relevant today as ever with 9 mass shootings in the past week – a painful reminder that we don’t have the luxury to celebrate progress.
Today March for a Lives is a powerful movement that continues to fight to end gun violence, with an expanded view of how we achieve a better world.
Learn how you can get involved – join an open call with March for Our Lives at 8PM ET tonight on Twitter and Facebook to look at how far we’ve come, and talk about what’s coming next.
Description: In celebration of Women’s History month, CGS-Minnesota presents this uplifting program featuring women and girls dedicated to empowering women to achieve their full potential. Speakers include:
Melissa Nambangi is recognized as a community leader through her strong advocacy on behalf of African women. Originally from Cameroon, she speaks French and English fluently and understands the struggles that African females face in acculturating to American society. She was a renowned journalist/news anchor on Cameroonian television and a Hubert Humphrey International Fellow at the U. of M. She earned her Master’s Degree in Mass Communication and Journalism with a minor in Women’s Studies from the University of Minnesota. After serving as a Women’s Advocate in shelters for victims of domestic violence around the Twin Cities, she created the Minnesota African Women’s Association, MAWA, in 2002.
Javaria Tareen is a Communications Specialist, Journalist, Legal Expert and Social Activist from Balochistan Pakistan. She has Master’s Degree in Mass Communication, International Relations and, is also a Law graduate. She is also a recipient of 3 Fulbright scholarships. Currently CEO of the BIRD, and serves on several significant official Pakistan government Task Forces and Agencies, such as Technical Advisor to Chief Minister Balochistan, Chairperson of Trade Corporation of Pakistan, Balochistan Programme Coordinator for the Prime Minister’s Task Force on the Knowledge-Economy
Coco Leonard is a high school junior and the co-founder of the nonprofit Dynamic Champions of Sisterhood nonprofit, which strives to foster girls to be the empowered leaders of our future and to change how they feel about themselves so that we can solve the issues of today. Coco has been a Youth in Government’s Model Assembly appoint official for three consecutive years, and participating in Model United Nations for three years.
Sunny Leonard is a young activist who is passionate about women’s empowerment, the environment, and mental health issues. She is co-founder of the nonprofit Dynamic Champions of Sisterhood nonprofit, a virtual book club that empowers girls to change the world.
Daisy Leonard is co-founder of the Dynamic Champions of Sisterhood nonprofit and holds leadership positions involved in human rights, activism, interfaith, and female empowerment. Her ultimate goal is to empower young girls worldwide to have the skills, confidence, and ability to join the world’s conversations and create a long-term impact in their own communities. Daisy speaks English and Chinese.
EVENT DETAILS: When: Monday, April 19, 2021 Time: 4:30 – 5:30 pm ET Where: Zoom Cost: FREE
Presenter: Kaylee Bradford, Columbia University
Description: This presentation will discuss how preservice HRE is currently being taught in the United States and to what extent these courses incorporate ‘good practices’ recommended in the field. It will also elaborate on current opportunities and challenges for HRE integration into teacher education programs. Following the presentation, there will be an open discussion with the purpose of identifying our next steps to equipping future teachers with HRE competencies.
EVENT DETAILS: When: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 Time: 12:00 – 2:00 pm ET Where: Zoom Cost: FREE
Description: This panel, sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, explores the potential to widen the conversation about rights to engage with and learn from the many scholars, students, and practitioners who work on “human rights adjacent” topics of peace, personal security and dignity, humanitarian action, and social and economic justice without adopting a conceptual rights frame or a conventional rights activist method. Panelists:
Moderator: Jack Lewis Snyder, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University
Séverine Autesserre, Professor, Department of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University
Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach Professor of History, Department of History, Columbia University
Michael Doyle, University Professor, Columbia University
EVENT DETAILS: When: Thursday, March 25, 2021 Time: 10:00 – 11:00 am EST Where: Virtual Cost: FREE
Description: This event presented by the Speak Truth to Power (STTP) team at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Nizami Ganjavi International Center will feature President Boris Tadić, Serbia. The webinar is part of a series with world leaders discussing the need for international dialogue, understanding, learning, and human rights advocacy.
Boris Tadić served as president of Serbia from 2004 to 2012. He was elected to his first term on June 27, 2004, when Serbia was part of Serbia and Montenegro, and he was re-elected on February 3, 2008, this time as president of an independent Serbia. While in office, Tadić worked toward reconciliation of the former Yugoslav countries, to heal the fallout from the wars of the 1990s. Prior to his presidency, Tadić, a psychologist, served as the last minister of telecommunications of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and as the first minister of defense of Serbia and Montenegro.
EVENT DETAILS: When: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 Time: 7:00 – 8:30 pm ET Where: Zoom Cost: FREE
Description: Join the Social Science Education Consortium as they engage with five recently published authors about their work with women in various educational arenas. Participants will hear from a distinguished panel of scholars on topics ranging from women in the social studies curriculum to feminist teachers, to how students engage with feminism as part of the curriculum. Featuring:
Dr. Kathyrn Engebretson, Indiana University (Moderator)
Dr. Jessica Ferreras-Stone, Western Washington University
Dr. Lauren Colley, University of Cincinnati
Dr. Kaylene Stevens, Boston University
Dr. Christopher Martell, University of Massachusetts, Boston
EVENT DETAILS: When: March 23 – 24, 2021 Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm CST Where: Virtual Cost: $200 Scholarships available
Description: The Talk Climate Institute will deepen your understanding of climate change in an era of disinformation. This transformative two-day experience will take you beyond your computer screen for intentional reflection and active listening, tapping into creativity and building community together.
EVENT DETAILS: When: Monday, March 22, 2021 Time: 7:00 – 8:30 pm EST Where: Zoom Cost: FREE
You are invited to join the Zinn Education Project for a free online class with Dr. Tera W. Hunter, history professor at Princeton University and author ofTo ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War. In a conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian, Dr. Hunter will provide a historical context for the election victory in Georgia and share insights from her research into freed women’s lives. Hunter will focus on the 1881 Atlanta Washerwomen’s Strike, when 20 laundresses met in Atlanta to form a trade organization, the Washing Society. They sought higher pay, respect, and autonomy over their work and established a uniform rate at $1 per dozen pounds of wash. With the help of Black ministers throughout the city, they held a mass meeting and called a strike to achieve higher pay at the uniform rate. ASL is provided.
Presenters: – Mary Mendenhall, Associate Professor of Practice in International and Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University – Katherine Kaufka Walts, JD, Director of the Center for the Human Rights of Children, Loyola University Chicago.
Description: The presenters will speak about teaching courses related to refugees and the right to education through different pedagogical, project-based, and interactive approaches. They will also share examples of ways to integrate refugees’ voices and experiences in the classroom and beyond, They will share how to reimagine immersive/experiential learning experiences for students under Covid-19, using the Immigration Detention Project at Loyola as a case study. This event, is part of a spring webinar series sponsored by the University and College Consortium for Human Rights Education (UCCHRE)
EVENT DETAILS: When: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm EST Where: Zoom Cost: FREE
Presenter: Walter C. Parker, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Description: Does human rights education have a social justice mission? And if so, how much does knowledge matter in realising justice through education? In this session, Walter Parker articulates what he identifies as human rights education’s curriculum problem in schools and suggests strategies to solve it. Employing a theoretical perspective from the critical sociology of education, he suggests the main problem is HRE’s lack of an episteme—a disciplinary structure created in specialist communities—and, related to this, the flight of scholars from the field of curriculum practice, redefining it away from subject matter. Parker asserts that the HRE curriculum remains scattered, ill-defined, and too variable to be robust. HRE advocacy is important but insufficient. He argues that a more robust HRE in schools will require a curriculum that teachers can adapt to local needs, constraints, and students. Knowledge matters. In this session he identifies a key challenge for researchers and policymakers: without knowledge work of this sort, it is difficult to claim that HRE has a social justice mission. Walter Parker’s full paper can be read here
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