Date: Thursday, August 6

Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

PLENARY

Session 001: Opening Plenary: Engaging Lifeworlds as Resistance through Organizing, Activism, and Scholarship-THEMATIC
Room: Ambassador II

Sponsor: Program Committee

Organizer: Hadi Khoshneviss, Rhodes College

Presider: Sarah Jane Brubaker, Virginia Commonwealth University

Description: 

This panel of activists and scholars share their strategies for resistance to contemporary social problems including war, gender violence, oppressive education and climate emergencies. Emphasizing anti-war and international solidarity campaigns, interdisciplinary scholarship, storytelling to foster community dialogue, shifting cultural norms, organizing and mobilizing teachers, developing curriculum, and working with community, parents, and student organizations, and empowering all of us to transform despair into effective "emergency mode" action.

Panelists:

Felicia Arriaga, Baruch College, CUNY

Meghna Bhat, Independent Scholar and Consultant

Kristen M. Budd, The Sentencing Project

Tonya Gayle, Green City Force

Jennifer (Jenna) Queena, New York Collective of Radical Educators

Jorge Rocha, North Brooklyn DSA and the Citywide Leadership Committee of NYC-DSA

Margaret Klein Salamon, Climate Emergency Fund

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