Friday Forum + Conversation Café
Fall 2025 Series
Please join the University YMCA and Diversity & Social Justice Education for our Fall 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.
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.
- 9/19 – CU Immigration – Realities + Responses: A Conversation with NAWC Leadership, Francisco Baires and E. Daniela Vergara, New American Welcome Center
- 9/26 – From Vietnam to the Quad: Student Activism at the University of Illinois in Early 1970, Robert F. Case, photographer and activist
- 10/3 – What Neurodiversity Means and How We Can Advocate for Our Neurodivergent Community, Jeanne Kramer and Kim Patton, leaders of the Neurodiversity Initiative for Students
- 10/10 – The Urgency of Honest Media in an Age of Suppression, panel of local media voices, moderated by Kimberlie Kranich
- 10/17 – LGBTQ+ Stories of Change: A Journey Through History, Dywaine Betts Jr., Brave Space Alliance, Chicago
- 10/24 – Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future, Emile Suotonye Deweaver, formerly incarcerated activist, journalist, and author
- 10/31 – Black Uncanny: Tales of the Black and the Weird, Stacey Robinson, University of Illinois School of Art + Design
- 11/7 – Fighting for Algorithmic Justice in an Age of AI-Driven Surveillance, Clara Belitz, University of Illinois School of Information Sciences/iSchool
- 11/14 – In the Deep End, Jameel Bridgewater, freelance director and designer
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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