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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.
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.
Call for ARTIST - Building Bridges for Social Justice & Global Peace
CALL FOR ARTIST - ON AND OFF CAMPUS COMMUNITY
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POSSIBLE THEMES
• Unequal Freedom • Freedom of Movement, Expression, Culture…• Social and En vironmental Justice • Dignity And Equity To The Hands That Feed Us • Themes Aligned With Building Bridges For Social Justice • A World without Wars/Empires/Colonialisms • Indigenous Human Rights • A World Without Oppressive Borders • Social and Environmental Justice • Sustainable Living
Looking for art visual, poetry, songs, etc. (2-3 minutes). Selected art will be exhibited at the CRISJ Building Bridges for Social Justice and Global Peace on May 2024.
Awards ranging from $100 to $300. Deadline for submissions is April 8th, 2024. For more information please contact crisj@csus.edu or mbarajas@csus.edu. Notification of selection to artists by April 12th, 2024.
*Note: Awards are tax reportable. Non - US Citizens will need to have an ITIN Number/DACA recipients to be eligible for award.
SUBMIT APPLICATION & MATERIALS BY CLICKING HERE OR SCAN QR CODE
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 - Friday, April 12, 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.
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 - May 2024
5:30 - 8:00pm | Sacramento State
Voices for hope and for healthier communities.
Speakers/Panel:
- Katie Valenzuela, City Council Member
- Ruth Ibarra, NorCal Resist
- Youth Panel, Sacramento State
PRE-REGISTER! - coming soon!
Please consider making a donation to support the "Student Empowerment Scholarship"
Contact/Questions:
crisj@csus.edu
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.
February 28 - 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. This talk 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 flyer HERE.
CLICK HERE OR SCAN QR CODE TO REGISTER
Research Mentorship Conference (Virtual)
Date/Time: TBD
Students and faculty mentors participating in the inaugural cohort of 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 Monicka Tutschka.
Chicanx Indigeneity and Resistance: Art for Social Justice
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Redwood Room, University Union, 12:00 - 3:15PM
FEATURING
Xico Gonzalez: “Hermosa Rebeldia: The Intersection of Art, Culture, and Activism” 12:00 - 1:15 P.M.
Aztlan Underground: “In Xóchitl In Cuicatl: Flower and Song Music as a Medicine and Tool for Social Justice” 1:30 - 2:45 P.M.
Violence Against Indigenous Women Across The Americas
March 8, 2022
Keynote: Dr. Katie Valenzuela, City of Sacramento Councilmember, District 4
Virtual Panel: Morning Star Gali, Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples; Irene de Barraicua, Lideres Campesinas; Edith Elizondo, Alerta Raquel; Andrea Guadalupe Luna Santana, Diversidad Sexual de Chihuahua
For more information contact Danielle Slakoff or Maria Vargas.
US Neo-Colonialism and Migration to El Norte
November 4, 2021
The forum's objective is to increase understandings of the root causes of migration, highlight the centrality of US interventions (e.g., military, foreign investment, and labor recruitment) in causing migrations to the north. Significantly, the U.S. one-sided framing about why people migrate to el norte, emphasizes poverty, violence, corrupt governments, and lack of human rights... However, missing from the full picture is the marginalization of migrant-sending countries to the United States by its expansionism and domination of the Americas going back to the Monroe Doctrine 1823.
For more information contact Manuel Barajas or crisj@csus.edu
| Title | Time |
|---|---|
| Keynote: Dr. Paul Almeida | 12 noon - 1:15 p.m. |
| Musica de Resistencia (Music of Resistance) | 1:15 - 1:30 p.m. |
| Panel: Voices Challenging Neo-Colonial Systems | 1:30 - 2:45 p.m. |
Advancing Equity in Higher Education: From the Margins
October 12, 2021
The CRISJ forum, Advancing Equity in Higher Education: From the Margins explores what context preceded anti-racism initiatives and how to advance equity in higher education.
Mary Romero, Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, will be a distinguished keynote speaker. The panel will include Terry Scott (CFA Representation Specialist), Dr. Ryan Fuller, Dr. Amber Gonzalez, and Dr. Bernard Brown.
For more information contact Manuel Barajas or crisj@csus.edu
| Title | Time | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote: Dr.Mary Romero | 12 noon - 1:15 p.m. | 40-45 min + Q & A |
| Panel | 1:30 - 2:45 p.m. | 40-45 min + Q & A |
Un/Equal Freedoms Exhibition
Opened Thursday, May 13
Un/Equal Freedoms: Expressions for Social Justice is a multidisciplinary exhibition of art and prose reckoning with the unequal freedoms embedded in our social structures.
Representing work by professional and emerging artists, individuals and groups, students and community members, the group offers artistic expressions for social justice, laying bare these unequal freedoms. Themes include:
- Empowering marginalized voices,
- Representing forward action,
- Offering a vision for an improved society.
Image: Kachiside Madu
Too Close to Slavery: Essential Labor in California Agriculture
At Sacramento State, the Center on Race, Immigration, and Social Justice (CRISJ) hosted a zoom forum Too Close to Slavery: Essential Workers in California Agriculture on April 7, 2021.
Farm labor conditions are harsh in California agriculture, and became even more so during the pandemic period — as the COVID 19 infections have hit hard farm workers given their housing and working circumstances. This forum addressed farm workers' labor conditions, their centrality to the wealth of California, what can be done to improve their lives beyond the fields, and what are some of the immediate resources available to them and to their advocates.
Featured scholars, community leaders, and artists who through their work help us understand, empathize and mobilize on behalf of farm working communities.
For more information please contact Dr. Manuel Barajas, Professor of Sociology, mbarajas@csus.edu or crisj@csus.edu.
