44.026 - Building a Wall of Resistance Through Critical Solidarities: Attending to Our Personal and Professional Needs and Those of Others in the Current Political Climate

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This interactive session will focus on how scholar-activists (can) address the current and recurrent violence and tensions in our society related to race, gender, LGBTQ, and other equity issues in light of the current political climate. The session will incorporate individual, small group, and large group dialogue and reflection to consider how we have been personally and professionally impacted by the current political climate, what it will take to ensure the needs of our disenfranchised are met, and how we can empower others and each other through our work and build coalitions to reach a state of synergy that will ensure progress towards equity and social justice.

Sub Unit

• Division A - Administration

Chair

• Ann M. Ishimaru, University of Washington

Participants

• Melissa Ann Martinez, Texas State University

• Rosa L. Rivera-McCutchen, Lehman College - CUNY

• Dana Thompson Dorsey, University of Pittsburgh

• Rhoda Freelon, Spencer Foundation

• Bernard Oliver, United Arab Emirates University