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Academic Year Programming
Please find below a list of current or upcoming CRISJ-related or -sponsored events on or for the Sacramento State community.
Interested in a previous event? Please see our comprehensive Past Events Archive.
CRISJ Research Mentorship Conference
Join us for what is undoubtedly the most exciting and transformative aspect of the CRISJ Mentoring program. Several of our CRISJ student mentees/scholars and their faculty mentors will be presenting their research.
THE EVOLUTION OF CHICANO TEATRO: A HISTORICAL AND PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
During the era of Civil Rights, the Chicano Movement gave rise and purpose to Latino artists at all levels, especially Chicano Teatro. Four members from four different Teatro companies will share their story about its evolution, its struggles, and its impact on the community.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 I Hinde Auditorium, University Union
Panel/Speakers: 12 Noon - 1:15pm
- Carolina Florez - former member of Teatro Mestizo, co-founder of
Women in Teatro - Dr. Manuel Pickett - Sacramento State faculty emeritus, founder of
Teatro Espejo, former member of Teatro Campesino - Ana Olivarez-Levinson - former member of El Teatro de la Esperanza
- Nicole C. Limon - Sacramento State faculty, Department of Theatre &
Dance, founder & artistic director of Matriarchy Theater
Documentary: 1:30 - 2:00pm
“La Vida es su Teatro”, A tribute honoring Jose Saucedo as a director and co-founder of El Teatro de la Esperanza - Directed and produced by Ana Berta Campa
Q&A: 2 - 2:30 PM - Light Refreshments Following
Thank you to our Campus Co-Sponsors:
- Chicanx & Latinx Studies Program
- Serna Center
- Theatre and Dance Department
Together We Rise
Together We Rise: Immigrants in America in the Wake of a New Trump Administration
Foothill Suite (3rd floor) | University Union
Wednesday February 26, 2025
12:00 - 2:45pm
Keynote Speaker: 12 noon - 1:15pm
Mark Tuschman, photographer and author of “Together We Rise: Immigrants in America in the Wake of a New Trump Administration”
Panel: 1:30 - 2:45pm
Irene De Barraicua, Lideres Campesinas
Marcos Lopez, UC Davis Labor Studies Center
David Bacon, photojournalist and author
MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT with Ranked Choice Voting
YOUR VOTE & YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is an election system that lets voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots. In communities that start using RCV, it improves voter turnout, voter choice, and representation of people of color and younger voters.
As additional communities consider using RCV for their own elections, this panel will discuss the outcomes that RCV has produced in regards to representation, diversity, and equity.
FREE EVENT!
PANELIST
Jose Navarro - Sacramento Latino Democratic Club
Josh Rosa - Sacramento State/Beter Ballot Sacramento
Marco Lizarraga - Coperativa Campesina
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
12:00 NOON - 2:00PM
FOOTHILL SUITE, UNIVERSITY UNION (3RD FLOOR)
Building Bridges for Social Justice & Global Peace
Join the celebration of champions for social justice and global peace organized by CRISJ for students & community empowerment through research, mentorship, and civic engagement.
Music | Food | Art & More - Thursday, October 10, 2024
5:30 - 8:00pm | Sacramento State
Voices for hope and for healthier communities.
REGISTER! FREE EVENT!!
Speakers/Panel:
- Katie Valenzuela, City Council Member
- Ruth Ibarra, NorCal Resist
- Dr. Flo Cofer, Candidate for Sacramento Mayor
REGISTER!
Please consider making a donation to support the "Student Empowerment Scholarship"
Contact/Questions:
crisj@csus.edu
For accomodations, contact us two weeks from the event.
Literacy Empowerment Day
Literacy Empowerment Project - empowers historically marginalized and minoritized youth through multi-modal expressions of literacy by highlighting the cultural, community, and home literacies underserved students possess. Students learn to use their existing knowledge as tools that support their learning in academic settings while strengthening their identities, languages, and customs. We establish partnerships with local schools.
For more information or to join the Literacy Empowerment Project committee, please contact Assistant Professor Araceli Feliz
Youth Literacy Empowerment Day
“Seeds to Roots: Cultivating healthy futures” “Semillas a Raices: Cultivando futuros sanos”
~ Building student empowerment through cultural, community, and home literacies ~
Workshops | Food - Fall 2024 | Friday, November 1, 2024
10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Sacramento State
Registration is open by invitation only. Contact Araceli Feliz if you are a school interested in participating.
CRISJ Empowerment Scholarship
Application Deadline:
March 2, 2024
Award Disbursement: Fall 2024
CRISJ’s Mission: Work collaboratively with faculty, students, staff and diverse community members to provide a platform of opportunities that seek to transform the educational culture and create a more inclusive and welcoming climate for underserved minority students and communities through active engagement in research, advocacy, and awareness of issues, concerns and concepts in race, ethnicity, immigration tudies, and social justice. Accordingly, the CRISJ Empowerment scholarship recognizes students who exemplify this mission in their academic and community engagement.
Criteria/Requirements: Undergraduate or Graduate (classified) student at Sacramento State, minimum 3.0 GPA, Full-time enrollment at time of application and award, demonstrate financial need (working class, first generation student, historically unrepresented minority), demonstrate civic service and social justice in the on and/or off campus community, provide one or two references, and submit with application a 1-2 page essay outlining how student experiences have motivated to civic service and to social justice.
Contact Information: crisj@csus.edu
To Apply go to: StudentCenter>Financial Aid Links> Apply for Scholarships OR by clicking below.
Community Empowerment Faire 2024
April 3, 2024 I University Ballroom III
12:00 Noon - 3:00pm
The Center on Race, Immigration, and Social Justice (CRISJ) invites students and faculty to their annual Community Empowerment Faire.
Students will be able to engage with various community organizations to learn about their services and how they can get empowered and involved on issues of social justice. Faculty are welcomed to bring their classes and encourage their students to attend. We will have FOOD & PRIZES!
PRE-REGISTER!
The goal of the event is to help students:
- Feel a sense of purpose by addressing issues that matter to them
- Motivate them to give back their communities, and
- Offer them the opportunity to apply their academic knowledge in the field, providing them the biggest lessons on what works and what does not in the service of social and environmental justice.
Kevin Johnson - The KKK, Immigration Law and Policy, and Donald Trump
Many Americans remember the Ku Klux Klan for its horrific acts of violence directed
at African Americans. Although generally overshadowed by that violence, the
Klan’s vilification of other groups, including immigrants and religious minorities,
also was central to its philosophy of white Anglo-Saxon supremacy. Some modern
anti-immigrant advocates, including former President and frontrunner for the 2024
Republican nomination Donald Trump, advocate remarkably similar anti-immigrant
policies of the KKK, with racial animus on full display. In this talk, Kevin Johnson, Dean of UC Davis Law School, analyzes the enduring legacy of the KKK’s immigration philosophy on contemporary U.S. immigration law and politics.
Farmworker Migrant Housing and the Limits of Citizenship and Education
Each year, hundreds of US citizens in California are displaced and Mexican-American youth miss months of school. Learn more in this documentary about living at the edges of citizenship, effects in children's education and engage in conversation with filmaker, farmworker's rights activists and listen to personal experiences from of our students on the topic of the 50 mile rule, currently under exemption only until 2024, and the need to be made permanent.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Cottonwood Suite, 2nd Floor | University Union
PIZZA & REFRESHMENTS | FREE EVENT
6:00pm - 7:20pm - Film Screening of “Como Vivimos (How we live)”
Presented by: Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz, Filmaker
7:30pm - 8:30pm - Panel: Alumni, Sac State students and farmworker’s rights activists
- Dr. Joaquin Arambula, California State Assembly Member
- Dr. Ann Lopez, Director of Center for Farmworker Families
- Luis Magaña, Organizacion de Trabajadores Agricolas de California
- Lauren Ornelas, Founder/Director, Food Empowerment Project
- Jose Modesto, Sacramento State Alumnus
- CAMP Students, Sacramento State
Contact: crisj@csus.edu
Request accommodations one week prior to event. Download the Farmworker Migrant Housing Flyer.
Register here OR scan QR code.
Research Mentorship Conference (Virtual)
Date/Time: TBD
Students and faculty mentors participating in the CRISJ Research Mentorship Program will present their research, creative, and scholarly work. Come listen to and engage with students and their faculty mentors as they discuss their exciting, social justice-informed research projects. The conference presentations center on timely, critical issues such as immigration policy, bilingualism, mental health, ethnic studies, true crime podcasts, and other engaging topics. The conference is free, virtual, and open to the public.
ZOOM ID: TBD
'Building Justice' podcast
Building Justice explores critical issues affecting our communities with the hopes of creating a healthier and more just world.
The ongoing conversations between the Sacramento State community and regional partners aim to spark understandings, empathies, and motivation to join the struggle for a better future for all.
For more information or to join the podcast steering and production committee, please contact Professor Elvia Ramirez (eramirez@csus.edu).