Friday Forum + Conversation Café
Spring 2025 Series
Please join the University YMCA and Diversity & Social Justice Education for our Spring 2025 Friday Forum + Conversation Café series. We will hear from community leaders tackling our most pressing public concerns through an unwavering pursuit of social justice. We are excited to focus the fall series on Democracy.
All presentations are open to the public and free on Fridays at 12 pm in Latzer Hall at the University YMCA. Free lunch is provided.
- 2/7 – Inclusion for All of Society, Sean Garrick, Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- 2/14 – Democratic Erosion and Women’s Political Power: Perspectives from Europe, Saskia Brechenmacher – Carnegie Fellow in Democracy, Conflict and Governance, with focuses on gender and civil society
- 2/21 – Bridging Differences to Build a “Beloved Community,”Allison Briscoe-Smith – University of California Berkeley Greater Good Science Center and 2025 Illinois Interfaith Conference Keynote Speaker
- 2/28 – Breaking Chains, Building Communities: The Story of the AME Church, Terrance Thomas, Bethel AME Church
- 3/7 – Defending Immigrants under a Trump Administration: An Immigrant Advocate’s Perspective, Diana Rashid, Berkeley Public Interest Law Fellow and Attorney, National Immigrant Justice Center, in conversation with current La Colectiva students
- 3/28 – “Plumas Negras” by Juliette Carrillo, University of Illinois Department of Theater
- 4/4 – To Thy Happy Children of the Future: Divestment as Progress, Students for Environmental Concerns, in conversation with Jim Hinterlong, UYMCA Executive Director
- 4/11 – The Art of Recreating Transnational Solidarities Against Global Apartheids, Woman Life Freedom Collective and Humane Urbanisms Project
- 4/18 – Stories From Her Work as a Tribal Attorney, Land Defender and Founder of the Giniw Collective, Tara Houska
This series is supported in part through our McMahon Democracy Innovation Fund.
An audio recording of each program can be heard the following Wednesday at 6-7 pm on WEFT 90.1 FM, weft.org.
Also rebroadcast on UPTV6 YouTube channel at youtube.com/@UPTV6.
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