WEEKLY eNEWSLETTER | JUNE 9, 2021 |
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MELLON ARTS PRACTITIONER FELLOWSHIP ARTIST SHOWCASE
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Please join us as CCSRE's Mellon Arts Non-resident Practitioner Fellows share their research-based creative projects emerging from legacies of race, ethnicity and indigeneity
and underscoring possibilities for more racially equitable futures.
JUNE 11, 2021
11AM PDT
Featuring
cai thomas
Sandra de la Loza
Latipa
Mary Valverde
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25th Anniversary Event Celebrates
CCSRE History and Importance of Solidarity
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Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) underscored the importance of solidarity across race, academic disciplines, and administrative units throughout the Center’s history at the first event of its 25th Anniversary year.
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BY PERLITA R. DICOCHEA
CCSRE News | JUNE 9, 2021
An audience of nearly two hundred unique viewers from around the country joined Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity last Friday evening as the Center celebrated its 25 year anniversary with a range of program participants, including an address by founding director Albert Camarillo, who was awarded the Distinguished Leadership Award, one of five inaugural CCSRE awards given during the program. Camarillo reflected, “Without question, the theme of ‘solidarity’ resonated with so many speakers and ran throughout the program.”
INAUGURAL AWARDS
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Al Camarillo, founding director of Stanford's Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (CCSRE) and recipient of the inaugural Distinguished Leadership Award, gives a heartfelt address surrounded by photos of his grandchildren. (Image credit: Stanford Video) |
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Tania Mitchell poses with her Community Engagement Award plaque, held by one of her children. (Image Courtesy of the Mitchell Family) |
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who received the Community Engagement Award for directing community engaged learning within CCSRE, establishing the foundation for such learning for the wider campus.
Tricia Raikes, along with her husband Jeff Raikes, supported the initial effort and presented Mitchell’s award noting “It was a special memory for us. We were so new at philanthropy and when we inquired about earmarking funds in our gift to innovate and embed service-learning IN center, CCSRE was game to explore. We were so lucky to have Tania as the first director – she was bold and determined to develop the models and gave us the courage to continue to expand the work at Stanford, with CCSRE as the great model example of what was possible.”
Acknowledging the many special moments throughout the program, Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, MC for the evening and Chair of CCSRE's national Advisory Board, stated, "There was a
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collective overall realization through the course of the celebration as to how many lives have been touched by CCSRE and how many amazing diverse individuals are brought together in solidarity by CCSRE experiences over the last 25 years for a common purpose. We all feel so connected and related as part of the CCSRE family and the evening truly embodied "Strength in Solidarity"!
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ARTIST FEATURE
As part of an CSRE alum artist feature, Kiyan Williams ('13) joined with MC Red-Horse Mohl for a live conversation focused on their sculpture "Reaching Towards Warmer Suns" (2020). Williams explained how the sculpture arose from a need to mark paths of slavery in Richmond, Virgina, as sacred, and "memorialize on-going struggles of self-determination for Black people."
In a clip shared during the program, Williams explains their sculpture as a reflection of the past as fluid and as something that animates and haunts the present.
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Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, Chair of CCSRE's Advisory Board, served as the MC for the June 4 Celebration. (Image credit: Stanford Video) |
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Kiyan Williams' sculpture, Reaching Towards Warmer Suns, 2020, was in part inspired by the trees along the path of the Manchester Slave Dock Trail in Richmond, Virginia. (Image courtesy of kiyanwilliams.com)
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The Stanford community will have an opportunity to see the sculpture when it makes its home on the front lawn of the Anderson Collection during summer and fall 2021.
CCSRE Community Comments
“Since its founding 25 years ago, CCSRE has been one of the school’s signature programs: organizing, cultivating, and promoting research and teaching on race and ethnicity in a comparative context. It’s complex configuration led the way at its founding, breaking new ground. Looking forward to the next decade, I am confident that CCSRE will continue to break new ground. It will be vital to the university's efforts to elevate research and teaching about race and ethnicity even further as its scholars address issues from algorithmic biases to health care
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disparities to uncovering lost voices and perspectives in our history." -Debra Satz, Dean of the School of Humanities & Sciences
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"The program underscored the role CCSRE has played in transforming Stanford and the field of ethnic studies more generally, and why the discussions sparked by CCSRE continue to be vital today." -Calvin Cheung-Miaw, CCSRE Teaching Fellow & Author of CCSRE's 25th Anniversary Commemorative Book
"It was a joy to witness the many moments of solidarity our diverse and dedicated CCSRE community demonstrated during the event. I am so deeply honored to have been part of this special
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DJ dorien blue ('17, AAAS) spins the beats for CCSRE's 25th Anniversary Celebration held on June 4, 2021. |
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kick-off program for the 25th anniversary year." -Jennifer DeVere Brody, CCSRE Director
"My hope is for the university to recognize the importance of the center's work over the past 25 years and invest further in its mission and programs in the coming year." -Al Camarillo, CCSRE Founding Director
Learn more about CCSRE's 25th Anniversary, the history of the program, and upcoming events HERE.
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AVAILABLE ON YouTube
16th Annual Anne & Loren Kieve Distinguished Lecture w/ RUHA BENJAMIN
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16th Annual Anne & Loren Kieve Distinguished Lecture
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2021 Tech and Racial Equity Conference: Anti-Racist Technologies for a Just Future
Ruha Benjamin gave an outstanding address to over 1000 live viewers for the 16th Annual Anne & Loren Kieve Distinguished Lecture, which also closed the two-day 2021 Tech and Racial Equity Conference held on May 19 and 20, 2021. If you missed the lecture, you may view it on our YouTube channel - click on the image or go HERE.
The complete conference recordings will also be posted so please check back soon. While you're there, kindly subscribe to our channel.
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CCSRE's 2021 VIRTUAL
COMMENCEMENT CELEBRATION
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June 11, 2021 | 3pm to 4:15pm PDT
Please join us to celebrate the accomplishments of our majors and minors
in all five of our undergraduate programs:
Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity
Asian American Studies
Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies
Jewish Studies
Native American Studies
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Sara Scott ('00) featured as Top Women 2021
in Law Week Colorado
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BY JESSICA FOLKER
Law Week Colorado | June 7, 2021
When Sara Scott is asked about her top accomplishments of the past year, the first thing that comes to mind is landing the CEO role at the Center for Legal Inclusiveness. “And I say that because I love this job,” she said.
Scott has been busy since May 2020, when she took the lead at the Denver non-profit devoted to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the legal profession. She is in charge of all of CLI’s programming, and one of her main tasks has been coming up with events to bring “relevant, actionable content” to CLI’s members and the legal community. Read the full story here.
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NEWS & EVENTS OF INTEREST |
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