Are you an LGBTQ+ student looking to build more community on campus? Are you interested in developing resiliency and learning how you may better understand your identity and the world around you? The LGBTQ+ Cohort of Community Connections may be a perfect fit! If you're interested in learning more, you can apply at the link below!
Join us Monday, January 24th at our new time of 1-3 P.M. for Culture Cafe at the Intersection Lounge! Enjoy refreshments while being provided with the opportunity to engage with others on topics of identity and cultural exchange. We can't wait to see you there!
Pop in on Wednesday (bi-weekly) for the Multicultural Center's weekly discussions about pop culture, national/global news, trigger-warning topics and/or anything related to diversity and inclusion. This peer-facilitated dialogue series provides a safe space to engage in critical thinking, explore diverse identities, examine privilege and understand systematic oppression. Just bring your topics and a willingness to think critically about the world.
Join the Multicultural Center for our Queer De-Stress Fest on Thursday, January 27th from 3:00 - 4:00 P.M. in Student Center East Suite 206 (Gender and Sexuality Resource Center), as we relax and develop skills for managing stress as an LGBTQ student. We can't wait to see you there!
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, join us on January 27, 2022 for a powerful conversation with Mr. George Rishfeld, Holocaust Survivor from Poland.

Ira Livnat, Atlanta Campus Speaker of the Senate for the Student Government Association, will facilitate live from Speakers Auditorium in Student Center East and virtual participation options are also available. 
This event is hosted by the Breman Museum’s Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education, and co-sponsored by Georgia State's Office of the Dean of Students Cultures Communities and Inclusion, Multicultural Center, and Hillel.
As a part of our Community Connections (C2) Womxn of Color Mentoring Initiative, this week, we highlight civil rights activist Coretta Scott-King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) as our #WomxnChangingTheWorld! 

Coretta Scott-King is prominently known as being the wife of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. However, Mrs. King had lent herself to the civil rights movement in her regard. Mrs. King attended Antioch College (Class of 1951) in Ohio, where she was the first African-American to major in elementary education at Antioch. During her studies, Mrs. King's encounters with the prejudice and racist systems within the school system motivated her to advocate for better, thereby joining the NAACP and becoming active with the race-relations and civil liberties committees. After Antioch, Mrs. King attended and earned a degree in music from the New England Conservatory of Music (Class of 1954) in Boston, Massachusetts, where she met her husband. Mrs. King would perform and speak at "freedom concerts" to help raise money for the SCLC (Southern Christian Leaders Conference) and their civil rights initiatives. There were also times when Scott-King would speak at various conferences or assemblies when her husband was unavailable. After King's assassination, Mrs. King founded the King Center and developed several programs to honor and continue her late husband's work. Mrs. King continued to serve as a global advocate for civil rights, women's and children's rights, healthcare, educational opportunities, and many other humanitarian causes until her passing in 2006. 

🌎 Culture & Identity: Coretta Scott-King was born and raised in Marion, Alabama, to Obadiah and Bernice Scott. Scott-King grew up on a farm owned and tended to by her family on land that had been in their family since the Civil War era. 
This week in our Social Justice Corner we are highlighting lawyer, author, and civil rights activist, Bryan Stevenson! 
 
Identity: Bryan Stevenson (November 14, 1959 - present) is an African American lawyer who has fought against the discrimination that minorities and impoverished people faced in the criminal justice system.
 
Life: Stevenson was raised in a rural town in southern Delaware. As a child he was forced to attend segregated schools, and the desegregated schools he attended still operated under the old rules of segregation. After graduating high school, Stevenson attended Eastern University on a scholarship and received a B.A. in Philosophy. He continued to pursue higher education and earned both a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, as well as an M.A. Degree.
 
Impact: After graduating from Harvard in 1985, Stevenson moved to Atlanta, where he worked for the Southern Center for Human Rights. He was appointed to run the Alabama operation and work in death-penalty defense cases. Eventually Congress eliminated funding for death-penalty cases and Stevenson went on to found the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). Under the EJI he promised defense of anyone in Alabama sentenced to the death-penalty as Alabama was the only state that didnt provide legal aid to death row inmates. The EJI has freed more than 140 people on death row who were wrongly convicted. Stevenson is a staunch advocate of protecting some of the most disenfranchised people in the most hopeless situations. To this day the EJI works on reforming significant flaws in our criminal justice system, such as children in adult prisons, wrongful convictions, excessive punishments, poor prison conditions, and much much more.
The Mindfulness for Health Equity Lab at Brown University
s School of Public Health is currently seeking participants for a study aiming at understanding risk and resilience factors of mental and sexual well-being among young adult gay, bisexual, and queer men. 

If you are a young adult sexual minority man (gay, bisexual, queer, or other men who have sex with men), we invite you to take 3-5 minutes to fill out this screener and consider participating in our study. Your contribution will help us understand and develop better care for LGBTQ+ people. Earn $15 for participating in the 30-40 minute anonymous research survey below
The Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora (CSAD) seeks your partnership in spreading the word about its inaugural student contest of artistic expression. This contest is a follow-up to the conversations held during the fall 2020 African Diaspora Student Advocacy Coalition (ADSAC) co-sponsored town hall, that introduced the Center to the campus community. In keeping with CSAD’s mission to highlight the potential of art to enhance our understanding of global issues, the contest aims not only to provide an opportunity for students to showcase their talents but also intends to carry on the important tradition of art as a conduit of social commentary, as upheld in such celebrated epochs as the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement. 

Students are asked to reflect upon the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic amidst the continuing climate of racially motivated social unrest, especially as it pertains to their scholarly efforts and educational goals, and to conceptualize their contemplations into written, audio-visual, or fine art manifestations. All submissions will be valued for the contribution they make to our collective understanding of this unique moment in our national history and in our university setting and for the top three winners in each category (written arts, visual arts, and performance/video arts), prizes will be awarded. 

The deadline for contest submissions is set for Friday, February 28th, 2022, allowing participants time to create before returning to campus for their spring semester studies. If integrating the contest into the curriculum for your classes in the spring is an option, that idea is encouraged. CSAD is asking that you share the contest with your students, fellow faculty, and members of your organizations and that you post the attached flyer with the submission form link to all your social media channels using the hashtag #CSADArtXContest.  
Join Student Nutritional Services and Collegiate Recovery Community for Mindful Movement Yoga. Every second Tuesday of the month, you are welcome to come for a moment of peace in motion in this beginner friendly Yoga experience.
Special Days This Week
Republic Day of India: January 26
 
Commemorates the date the constitution of India came into law in 1950. 
International Day of Commemoration: January 27

A day to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. 
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