Hi All,

As always, many exciting DEI learning opportunities are happening in our school, across the University, and in Pittsburgh this month. I want to highlight some exciting talks and workshops within the School of Social, including the first ever SW student-led Racial Equity Conscience Institute, a new self-paced CE offering Understanding Systemic Racism and Healing Racial Trauma, a talk about creating a more inclusive multigenerational workplace, a panel on Exclusionary Sanism, and two anti-racist learning collaboratives. I hope you can join us at some of the events.

Enjoy your Spring Break! And don’t forget to fill out the school’s climate survey if you are interested.

Best,

Jaime

Jaime Booth

Acting Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Pitt School of Social Work

School of Social Work DEI Events

Ongoing:

Center on Race and Social Problems: Racial Equity Consciousness Institute CL 2017

University Wide (3-5pm)

March 1 – Session 4: Embracing Racial Diversity | Growing Racial Literacy
March 15 – Session 5: Building Racial Empathy | Enhancing Racial Stamina
March 22 – Session 6: Acknowledging Racial Trauma | Fostering Racial Healing
March 29 – Session 7: Gauging Racial Inequities | Championing Racial Justice

Social Work Student Led Cohort (9-11am)

March 3 – Session 3: Examining Racial Identities | Addressing Racial Biases
March 17 – Session 4: Embracing Racial Diversity | Growing Racial Literacy
March 24 – Session 5: Building Racial Empathy | Enhancing Racial Stamina
March 31 – Session 6: Acknowledging Racial Trauma | Fostering Racial Healing

Contact Ron Idoko for more information

CEU: Newly released 25-hour self-paced CE Intensive, Understanding Systemic Racism and Healing Racial Trauma

Free to students, half price for faculty and staff

March 13, 2023: Anti-racist learning collaborative: Drs. Leah Jacobs Abolition 101: A Conversation for the Curious. 12-1pm. For faculty, staff only and PhD Students only. Check your email for the link.

March 21, 2023: Exclusionary Sanism: A Critical Dialogue. 12-2pm. Register here.

March 27, 2023: Anti-racist learning collaborative: Dr. Clara Berridge and Dorian Tylor will be discussing Disability Justice from an Intersectional Perspective. 12-1pm. For faculty, staff only and PhD Students only. Check your email for the link.

March 27, 2023: Challenges and Opportunities of Multigenerational Workplaces, Michael Urick.4-5pm. 2017 Cathedral of Learning or Zoom

Upcoming starting in April: CEU: Racial Justice and Liberatory Practice Series. Knowing our history is the key to not repeating it. Join us as we learn about the United States' history of racism and our current struggle with from white supremacy from Shimon Cohen, MSW, LCSW and Charla Yearwood, LCSW in their "Racial Justice & Liberatory Practice" series. Learn more and register here.

University DEI Events

March 8, 2023: The Struggle of Iranian Women for Life and Freedom: Panel Discussion International Women's Day. 2:30-4pm. Virtual event.

March 13, 2023: Film screening Clusterluck. 12-2pm. Register here.

March 14, 21, and 28, 2023: Women's Lives in Iran: Between the Religious-Traditional and New Horizons. Register for Zoom event.

March 15, 2023: The $16 Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification. 4pm. Cathedral of Learning, Room 602 Fifth Ave at Bigelow, Pittsburgh, 15213

March 16, 2023: Race &... Lecture Series: Mary Ellen Vajravelu. 12-1pm. Cathedral of Learning, Room 2017, 20th Floor Fifth Ave at Bigelow, Pittsburgh, 15213

March 16, 2023: Creating Gender-Inclusive Classrooms. 1-2:30pm. Virtual event.

March 16, 2023: Racial Wellness. 4-5pm. Virtual event

March 16, 2023: Book Teach-In: Fighting for Our Place in the Sun: Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 1960-1973. 5-6:30pm. Center for Urban Education Auditorium 4303 Posvar. More information.

March 17, 2023: Religious Inclusivity in the University Classroom Workshop. 11am-12:30pm. William Pitt Union, 548 3959 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.

March 20, 2023: Thornburgh Family Lecture on Disability Law & Policy, KATIE BOOTH, writer, ghostwriter, and editor. "The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness." 1-2pm. William Pitt Union, Lower Lounge 3959 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. More information.

March 21, 2023: Building Black Wealth Summit. 5:30-7:30pm. . University Club, Ballroom B,123 University Place, Pittsburgh, 15213

March 23, 2023: Colloquium: Sounding Guilty: Criminalization and Black Racialized Speech. 12:30-2pm. Cathedral of Learning, Room 602 Fifth Ave at Bigelow, Pittsburgh, 15213. Zoom link.

March 30, 2023: Racial Wellness. 4-5pm. Virtual event

Community DEI Events

All month: Apsáalooke Women and Warriors Carnegie Museum of Natural History

March 6, 2023: Samuel Boateng and ADEPA Ensemble. 7:00 p.m. Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15212

Please send any DEI events to Acting Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Jaime Booth by the last Friday of the month to have events included in the following month: jmbooth@pitt.edu.