SP0262: Anti-Racism in the Academy

The Anti-Racism in the Academy project focuses on the social branch of sustainability and involves four events. The first is a 3-hour webinar with Dr. Beth Berila on engaging structural racism in trauma-informed ways. The second event is a discussion with/between Cree/Métis Elder Vicky Boldo, and her colleagues Autumn Godwin (nehithaw iskwew) and Laurence Lainesse (White settler) about doing decolonial work as settler/scholars (some of our students are Indigenous, while most are non-Native). The third event is a Q & A with Dr. Bettina Love about abolitionist teaching and pedagogy. The fourth and final event is a talk by Dr. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These events comprise a call-to-action. Academia and activism can and must converge in the fight for real and lasting change.