Teach In
Save the Date: February 17, 2022
The 6th annual Social Justice Teach In will be held on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022.
Check back soon for schedules and updates.
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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| The Radical Potential of Intersectional Labor Organizing in The Neoliberal University |
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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!