Building Your Toolkit for Social Change

This event is a capstone organized and led by seniors in the Tisch Scholars Program.  This capstone event will highlight the learning and impact Scholars have had throughout their time in the program.The Tisch Scholars is a unique leadership development program that combines academic coursework, fieldwork in local communities, skill-building, and critical reflection. Scholars acquire the values, knowledge, and skills they need to address pressing social issues and effect meaningful change while building a supportive community to strengthen civic engagement at Tufts University and beyond.

Tisch College of Civic Life's Scholars Program

Join us for Building Your Toolkit for Social Change, a series of social justice workshops from Tisch Scholars. We will focus on combating Islamophobia and also on fighting for racial and economic justice. These workshops will give participants the chance to understand the ways these systems of oppression operate in our lives, and the chance to collectively envision community based solutions. Coffee and tea will be provided as we gather, with food and conversation following the workshops.
Agenda: 1:45 Registration opens 2:00 Welcome and overview 2:20 Concurrent Workshops (see below for descriptions) 4:00 Come back together for food and conversation
Workshop A: Combating Xenophobia: Contextualizing Immigration Law From barring enslaved and free black people from becoming citizens to the recent Muslim ban and ICE detainment centers, US immigration policy has often been fueled by racism and xenophobia. Join us for a workshop to learn about the racist history of immigration law, understand current immigration policy, and share action steps.
Workshop B: Racial and Economic Justice This workshop will explore how race, ethnicity, and culture matter in society. How our personal class backgrounds and identities see to where we exist within circles of classism. Through a series of activities and discussions we will have a deeper understanding class and wealth as a system (beyond the personal/interpersonal) and the importance of moving towards systemic change.

574 Boston Ave

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