Antiracism: A Resource Guide: Events and Programs

Throughout the Institute we will consider the following key questions:
What is our role in deepening equity work on our campus and beyond?
What are our goals as equity workers?
How can we begin to make tangible shifts in order to reach those goals?
Click on the link to register. All CCC faculty are invited to attend. We especially encourage the participation of counseling faculty and faculty who teach transfer-level Math and English.

Lake Tahoe Community College is a small college in a rural community tackling critical and timely work to advance diversity, equity and inclusion. This presentation will focus on how the college is prioritizing DEI efforts with limited resources, and will provide examples of the activities that have resulted in meaningful outcomes for students, faculty, and staff. Guest presenters include:

Jeff DeFranco, Superintendent/President, Lake Tahoe Community College
Mari Jimenez Cardenas, Student Senate President, Lake Tahoe Community College
Laura Salinas, Director of Equity, Lake Tahoe Community College
Julie Ewing, English Faculty, Lake Tahoe Community College
Antonio Benitez, Special Assistant to the President, Lake Tahoe Community College
Dr. Elizabeth Balint, Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Lake Tahoe Community College
Katherine Squire, Vice President, Student Senate for California Community Colleges

Order of speakers and timestamps:
Welcome – 1:35 Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley
Remarks by Chairman Mark Takano (D), House Veterans Committee - 13:20
Supporting Student Success at California Community Colleges, moderated by Vice Chancellor David O'Brien - 25:10 Panelists include:
Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Gomez Reyes
Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer
The Student Experience One Year into COVID Panel, moderated by Vice Chancellor Lizette Navarette - 52:00 Panelists include:
Gian Gayatao, Student Leader, Bakersfield College
Jasmine Prasad, Student Leader, Folsom Lake College
Victor Hernandez, Student Leader, Chaffey College
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Journey - 1:16:40 Deputy Chancellor Dr. Daisy Gonzales
Closing Remarks: How Can You Engage In This Work? - 1:28:30 Vice Chancellor David O'Brien

Contact Chris Woo at skyprojectchange@smccd.edu for more information about Project Change at Skyline.

Part four of the Bay Region Community Colleges Racial Justice Training Forum. This session explored the role education plays in empowering activism, a more just workforce and building communities of struggle for economic, racial and gender justice. A keynote conversation with Dr. Angela Davis was followed by a "work in practice" panel discussion.

Guest presenters will include:
*Dr. Martha Garcia, Superintendent/President, Imperial Valley College, Chief Executive Officers of the California Community Colleges
*Mark Evilsizer, Governing Board Member, Palomar Community College District, California Community College Trustees
*Katherine Squire, Vice President, Student Senate for California Community Colleges
*Dr. Debbie Klein, President, Faculty Association for California Community Colleges
*David Williams, Vice President, Academic Affairs, Solano Community College, California Community Colleges Chief Instructional Officers
*Dr. Kelly Hall, Assistant Superintendent / Vice President of Business and Financial Affairs, Southwestern College, Association of Chief Business Officials
*Greg Smith, Vice Chancellor of Human Resources, San Diego Community College District, Association of Chief Human Resource Officers
*Jessie Ryan, Executive Vice President, Campaign for College Opportunity
*Academic Senate for California Community Colleges

Includes webinar recording and PowerPoint slides

Slide deck from Dr. Sims to be available soon.

SSCCC ANTI-RACISM: A STUDENT PLAN OF ACTION byPresident Stephen Kodur, Sept. 6, 2020: https://studentsenateccc.org/news-events/newsroom/newsroom.html/article/2020/09/06/ssccc-anti-racism-a-student-plan-of-action

Speakers include:
· Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley
· Bryan Daley, City College of San Francisco
· Pamela Haynes, Board of Governors
· Dr. Ed Bush, Cosumnes River College
· Dr. Martha Garcia, Imperial Valley College
· Dr. Jennifer Taylor-Mendoza, Skyline College
· Dr. Pamela Luster, San Diego Mesa College
· Dr. Luke Lara, MiraCosta College
· Dr. Frank Chong, Santa Rosa Junior College
· Dr. Abdulmalik Buul, San Diego City College
· Dr. Regina Stanback-Stroud, Peralta Community College District
· Marty Alvarado, Chancellor’s Office

Contact Michael Stokes at stokesm@smccd.edu for more information.

Use this link to see an on-demand recording of the event.

The documentary is now available to stream through Hoopla! Login through your public library.

Linda A. Jackson, a native San Franciscan, is a writer, historian, photographer and food artist. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Mount St. Mary’s University and received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers Workshop, and has recently completed a collection of short stories entitled, The Religion of Slaves. She is now working on her memoir.

Born and raised in San Francisco, Eisen-Martin spent his childhood at the Western Addition Cultural Center, now the African American Art & Culture Complex. In his vision for Poet Laureate, Eisen-Martin writes of organizing poetry circles in the Tenderloin, Bayview-Hunters Point and Sunnydale and recruiting and nurturing artists from San Francisco’s marginalized communities. ”I and my poetry are an absolute product of every nook and cranny of San Francisco. It is the City’s cultural institutions, chartered in ink, demonstration, spirit and bloodline, that taught me how to relate to the world,” said Eisen-Martin. ”As deep into the various communities of the city as our poets have already brought the craft, I want to push even further into places where poetry has not yet permeated. Give poetry even more of a mass personality; as mass participation has always been the staple of what could be described as San Francisco futurism.”
Click on the link for more information and to register for his Eisen-Martin's inaugural event.

Elizabeth Acevedo is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Poet X, which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Carnegie medal, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and the Walter Award. She is also the author of With the Fire on High—which was named a best book of the year by the New York Public Library, NPR, Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal—and Clap When You Land, which was a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor book and a Kirkus finalist.

She holds a BA in Performing Arts from The George Washington University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. Acevedo has been a fellow of Cave Canem, Cantomundo and a participant in the Callaloo Writer’s Workshops. She is a National Poetry Slam Champion, and resides in Washington, DC with her love.