The start of a new year is always a good time to think about goals and dreams for the future. The Women’s Affinity Group invites you to join us in making your very own 2020 vision board (a visual tool used to help clarify, concentrate, and maintain focus on a goal or goals) while enjoying a warm beverage during the cold month of January. We will be providing inspiration and materials as well as a networking activity or two so we can all meet and engage with other women in our community around both our shared and unique goals for the future. Our hope is that you leave this event with a visual display of images that represent something you want to be, do, or have in your life that you can keep for encouragement throughout 2020. This event is drop-in style (come for as long or as short as you are able) and all materials will be provided. Please RSVP at https://womenscenter.uconn.edu/?p=2485

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Women's Affinity Group at womenscenter@uconn.edu or (860) 486-4738 by January 10, 2019.

A Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Featuring Damien Sneed

Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., We Shall Overcome showcases repertoire from across the African American music traditions that electrified generations of civil rights activists with interwoven spoken word from Dr. King’s recorded speeches. Producer and Musical Director Damien Sneed ties together a living lineage of music and culture that includes traditional and modern gospel, classical, jazz, Broadway and spirituals. From Duke Ellington to Stevie Wonder; Aretha Franklin to Wynton Marsalis; Nina Simone to Donny Hathaway; and traditional spirituals and music from The Wiz, Sneed covers a lot of musical ground in one evening.

Sponsored by the UConn Office for Diversity and Inclusion in collaboration with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Living Legacy Convocation

Media Sponsor: WFCR/NEPR

TICKETS: https://jorgensen.uconn.edu

Presenters: Monica M. Johnson, Ph.D., Rory Gregg James, and Brian Richardson | Indiana University, Bloomington

Annually, higher education professionals and student leaders approach the upcoming academic year with grand plans for timely programming and community engagement. These plans are often disrupted and “trumped” by a series of unexpected and ever unfortunate occurrences. Whether we find our communities facing the planned invasion of Neo-Nazis, consistent struggles with sexual assault, mass shootings, or the ever-present uncertainty of the next presidential tweet, higher education practitioners and student leaders must remain alert and prepared to build programming that supports their communities appropriately. This workshop intermingles case studies, simulations, and group dialogue in efforts to provide participants a substantial tool kit for crafting impactful reactionary programming to suit their campuses needs in time of division, crisis, or direst.