About a year ago today a group of students and staff meet in
the dCenter to participate in a social justice workshop lead by the Campaign for
Racial Equity. The workshop was a follow
up to our visit to the RACE: Are we so different? exhibit at the Pacific
Science Center and offered an opportunity for us as a group to dialogue about
racism and brainstorm ways we can dismantle institutional racism. Check out the segment.
Rosario Jesús Treviño Yoson is a 2nd year majoring in Economics. They identify as a mixed queer transmasculine person using he/they pronouns. He plans to use their degree to address food insecurity. You can find him in the Diversity Center, the library, or the student radio station in the Neeb building. Dear DJS Student Leaders, It has been an honor to organize your stories this year. When I started, I was a little lost. I hadn’t attempted something like this before. What I uncovered became larger than the website. In conversations I had with each of the writers, I sought to go deeper into their motivations, why they are committed to the work they do towards anti-racism; outside of school and sometimes unpaid. It is the right thing to do, but these students stepped farther, they took initiative and leadership in their own communities, rather than waiting for direction. I was encouraged after hearing from a few writers “this conversation help...
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