Teach In
February 17, 2022
Join the Cal Poly Community for the 6th annual Social Justice Teach In, a daylong series of talks and workshops centered around equity and social justice designed to inform and inspire.
Attendees must register for virtual and in-person sessions individually, and will receive separate email confirmations for each session. In person participants, please be prepared to present your tickets on the day of the Teach In.
Cal Poly requires all students, employees and visitors accessing any indoor facility on campus to wear a face covering, regardless of their vaccination status.
These events will comply with all mandatory requirements and mitigation measures during the COVID-19 pandemic by following state, local and campus safety guidelines, which are subject to change should public health conditions warrant different requirements.
Four tracks of sessions are focused on specific topics, as marked on this schedule.
Art and Creative Efforts
Equity-Minded Education
DEI and STEM
Self-Care and Community Well-Being
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9 — 10 a.m. |
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| There Are Black People in the Future |
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| Understanding (White) Privilege and Dismantling Oppressive Systems: A Hands-On Approach |
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| A Food System for the Common Good |
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| Explore Online and In-Person Inclusive Teaching Practices to Try Out Tomorrow! |
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| Anti-Racism Response: Educator Perspectives on Culturally Responsive Practices |
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| Constructing Belonging — San Luis Obispo's First Multicultural Center |
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| Strategies to Combat Systemic Racism and Microaggressions in SLO County: An Interactive Dialogue |
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10 — 11 a.m. |
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| Sexual Geographies: The Place & Space of Violence Prevention |
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| Restrictions Apply — a Story About Racism in the Happiest City in North America |
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| Healing isn't Linear: Centering the Voices of Marginalized Survivors |
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| Organizational Strategies to Create Inclusive Organizations |
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Presentation Canceled |
| Building Bridges for a More Connected World: Why Cultural Competence Matters |
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| Trails of Absence: Sai Blank and the Myanmar Crisis |
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11 a.m. — 3 p.m. |
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20 Seconds in Memoriam
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Michael Rippens shares his installation “20 Seconds In Memoriam,” an interpretive hand-washing station paying homage to the hundreds of Filipino American healthcare workers who have sacrificed their lives during the pandemic in the service of caring for others. Their names —hand-printed in the sink’s basin— become visible as visitors wash their hands, allowing one to spend the recommended 20 seconds reflecting on those front-line workers killed by COVID-19. |
Located in the University Union |
11 a.m. — 12 p.m. |
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| The Indigenous Kitchen: Stories and Recipes for Healing and Wellness |
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Waitlist Only (In-Person) |
| Exiled: The Deportation of Asian American Legal Permanent Residents |
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| Okinawa and the U.S. Military Base Issues: Past, Present, and Future |
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| An Open Review Session Critical Librarianship and the Ethics of Care |
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| Nuestra Ciencia: Opening Opportunities in Science |
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| Not So "Model" After All: Asian American Racialization and COVID-19 Pandemic |
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11 a.m. — 1 p.m. |
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| Intro to Activist Organizing in the Central Coast: An Intersectional Labor Workshop for Social Justice |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
12 — 1 p.m. |
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| Let’s Co-Create a Self-Care Card Deck |
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| Precision Medicine and Machine Learning: Health Equity Promise and Pitfalls |
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Register Here (Virtual) |
12 — 1:30 p.m. |
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Food Justice and Climate Chaos: A Conversation with Best-Selling Author and Food Activist Anna Lappé
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| The Seeds in STEM Program: A Story-Centered Social Justice Approach to STEM to Engage Underrepresented 7-12 Students |
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12 — 2 p.m. |
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| Activist Art Making |
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Waitlist Only (In-Person) |
| Health Inequities and the COVID-19 Pandemic |
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1 — 2 p.m. |
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| Standing in the Gap: How Faith Shapes LGBTQ Identity & Political Development |
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| Enhancing Health & Wellbeing Outreach to Latinx Students at Cal Poly |
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| Planting Seeds in Red Mud: the Case for Ethnic Studies in Paso Robles, CA |
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Register Here (In-Person) |
2 — 3 p.m. |
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| Using Data Skills and Statistical Thinking to Investigate and Identify Social Inequalities |
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| Mindful Practices, Resilience and Social Justice |
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| Findings and Lessons Learned from the 2020 Campus Survey on Sexual Violence |
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| "Just What is Critical Race Theory and What's it Doing in a Nice Field Like Education?" |
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2 — 4 p.m. |
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STFU! Silencing Anti-AAPI Racism, Misogyny, and Xenophobia with Rina Sawayama
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Waitlist Only (In-Person) |
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Teatro Campesino/Farmworkers Theatre: Lessons on Activist Theatre |
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3 — 4 p.m. |
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| Working Mothers in Higher Academia During the Pandemic: A Discussion of Needed Organizational Support and Coping Mechanisms |
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| Research that Makes a Difference: Social Justice, Research, Scholarship & Creative Activities at Cal Poly |
Panel Facilitators:
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| Trauma-Informed Leadership: How We Emerge From the Pandemic |
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4 — 5 p.m. |
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| Anti-racist pedagogies in Architecture |
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| Centering Student Identities and Languages in the K-12 Classroom |
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| A Conversation on Social Justice Education In and Out of the K-12 Classroom |
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| Defining Multiracial College Students: How Mixedness is Measured in Higher Education |
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| Learn by Doing Using Content Analysis: Cal Poly Students Critique Health Advice During COVID-19 |
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Building Student Authority in the Classroom- Issues of Power in Group Work
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4 — 6 p.m. |
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| Introduction to Disability Allyship |
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4:30 — 6 p.m. |
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Keynote Reception
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Cal Poly - Outdoor Patio, Advanced Technologies Lab (ATL) |
6 — 7:30 p.m. |
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Keynote Lecture
How I Keep Looking Up: Art and the Social Practice of Belonging and Resilience |
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Register Here Cal Poly - Advanced Technologies Lab (ATL) Building 7, Room 01/02 |
How I Keep Looking Up: Art and the Social Practice of Belonging and Resilience
from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
What is belonging? What does it mean to carry belonging with you? Can art help us be more resilient?
Christine Wong Yap (she/they) is a visual artist and social practitioner working in community engagement, drawing, printmaking, publishing, and public art. She partners with organizations to conduct participatory research projects to explore dimensions of psychological wellbeing such as belonging, resilience, interdependence, and collaboration.
Wong Yap’s work engages questions of belonging through projects that are as much social practice as they are public art. Drawing on examples from New Mexico to New York City to San Francisco Chinatown, they will share some of the lessons they have learned as an artist, highlighting how their projects have been shaped by local knowledge and positive psychology, and the steps they have taken to increase diversity, accessibility, equity, and inclusion in their projects.
2021 - 5th Annual Social Justice Teach In
On Thursday, Feb. 11, join the campus community for the 2021 Teach In –– a daylong series of virtual talks and workshops centered around equity and social justice designed to inform and inspire!
You will need to register for each session, and you will receive a separate email confirmation for each session. If you would like to add a session to your calendar, please scroll to that section in the confirmation email.
There are four tracks of sessions focused on specific topics. Sessions that are part of a track are marked on this schedule with an icon. You can view a full list of the sessions included in each track by selecting from the list below.
Art, Media, Storytelling, and Social Justice
Public Health Inequities and Movements
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8-9 a.m. |
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| Utilizing DEI to Debunk Neutrality in the Classroom |
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| Housing is Healthcare: Harm Reduction Approaches and Housing First! for People Experiencing Homelessness |
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| Gather ‘round – Using Virtual Book Circles to Navigate Challenging Topics and Build Community |
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9-10 a.m. |
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| Introducing “Mi Gente, Nuestra Salud:” A People’s Movement for Health in Santa Maria, CA |
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| A Restorative Justice Framework for Campus Sexual Harm |
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The Granville Institute: An astronomy bootcamp where diversity and technical training go hand in hand  |
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| Organizational Strategies to Create Inclusive Organizations |
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| Climate change, social justice, and the search for solutions: A new hope? |
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9-11 a.m. |
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The Tragicomic Fanon: Black Laughter and the Tragedy of Anticolonial Violence  |
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10-11 a.m. |
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| poly publishing: The “Why Not” Program to Publish |
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| Transgender People of Color: Understanding multiple minority stress, health disparities, and community resilience |
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| Unruly Women: Framing Female Celebrities as Fascinating and Repulsive |
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| Affirmative Action as Social Justice: Understanding its purpose & controversies |
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| "Georgia Elections, The Riot, and Race: An Exam of the Events of 1/6/21" |
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| Integrating Social Justice into Engineering Statics Problem Solving |
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10 a.m. to 12 p.m. |
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| Somos Esenciales: Farmworker and Indigenous Health Video, Gallery and Discussion by Corazón del Pueblo Cultural and Creative Arts Center of the Santa Maria Valley |
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11 a.m. to 12 p.m. |
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| Central Coast Snapshots: A Community Collective Gathering Stories From Historically Silenced Communities |
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| Introduction to Disability Allyship |
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| Black & Indigenous Futurity: World-Making Our Way Home |
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| Easy to Exclude: The Safety Vest and Construction Industry Norms |
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| The City of SLO's Diversity Taskforce: Town/Gown Joint Diversity Efforts |
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| Diversity Equity & Inclusion: Moving beyond race |
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| @ShadesofCalPoly and @CalPolyStories: Exploring COVID-19 Racism Against Asian Americans and the Perpetual Foreigner Stereotype at Cal Poly |
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11 a.m. to 1 p.m. |
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| Racial Justice as a Global Struggle: Why International Learning is Essential for Transnational Solidarities |
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12-1 p.m. |
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| Workshop: Creating and Disseminating Multilingual Information for Positive Health |
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| Improving Gender and Power Based Violence Campus Climate: Be That Mustang Social Marketing as an Example |
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| Chat n' Chew Session: “Another Slave Narrative” |
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12-2 p.m. |
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| Foundations of Gender & Sexuality |
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1-2 p.m. |
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| Axes of Antisemitism: Our History & Our Horizons - a discussion with Two Rabbis |
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| Media Representations of the Trans* Community: A Discussion of the Film Disclosure |
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| Examining the Triple Pandemic: COVID-19, Interpersonal Violence & Systemic Racism |
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| Latinx Immigrant Health Inequities in San Luis Obispo: Findings and Recommendations for Health Equity and Policy |
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| On the field and in the booth: Experiences of women making the calls in sport |
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| Restrictions Apply : a short documentary on racism and the Happiest City in North America |
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1-3 p.m. |
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| Teatro Campesino/Farmworkers Theatre: Lessons on Activist Theatre |
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2-3 p.m. |
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| Menstrual Health Management in Low resource countries |
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| Project Biodiversify: Methods for diverse, inclusive, and effective teaching in biology |
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| Tsuru Rising: Fighting for Justice in the Age of COVID-19 |
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| Womxn and Infants Mobile Health: Reducing Health Disparities in the Central Coast |
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| Art and Social Change |
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2-4 p.m. |
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| The "Why" and "DIY" of Video Captioning |
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3-4 p.m. |
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| Downstream Determinants of COVID-19 in the Central Coast: Findings from a Regional Health Needs and Assets Survey and the Womxn and Infants Mobile Health Unit |
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| Culturally responsive Maker education: Harnessing the Maker movement to solve today’s real-world problems |
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| Race, Disability, and Survivorship: Barriers to Disclosure and Strategies for Community Care |
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| Understanding (White) Privilege and Dismantling Oppressive Systems: A Hands-On Approach |
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| Teaching for Justice, Teaching for Change in K-12 Schools |
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4 to 5:30 p.m. |
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Keynote Lecture
Black Lives, Indigenous Lives: From Mattering to Thriving |
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Black Lives, Indigenous Lives: From Mattering to Thriving
from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
What can we learn from Black and Indigenous history, activism, and contemporary stewardship efforts in order to transform higher education, health, policing and other Western institutions?
This dialogue will examine and discuss major points of cultural and historic community convergence between Black and Indigenous Peoples with a focus on contemporary movements such as Black Lives Matter and Idle No More and the dismantling of racist statues, images and mascots. Andrew Jolivétte will explore what these movements mean for enacting justice interventions and moving towards thrivance circuitry, kinship building, self-determination, and abolition as transformational modes of joy production and ceremonial stewardship.
Dr. Andrew Jolivétte (Atakapa-Ishak Nation of Louisiana [Tsikip/Opelousa/Heron Clan]) is professor and chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, San Diego as well as the inaugural founding Director of Native American and Indigenous Studies at UCSD. A former professor and department chair of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University, he is the author or editor of nine books in print or forthcoming including the Lammy Award nominated, "Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community." His scholarship examines Native American, Indigenous, Creole, Black, Latinx, Queer, Mixed-Race, and Comparative Critical Ethnic Studies. Jolivétte is the 2020-21 MultiRacial Network Scholar in Residence for the American Personnel Association and the Series Editor of Black Indigenous Futures and Speculations at Routledge. His current book project, "Thrivance Circuitry: Queer Afro-Indigenous Futurity and Kinship," is under contract with the University of Washington Press.
In case you missed it, the keynote lecture is now available on YouTube!