A key mission of the Summer Democratizing Knowledge Institute is to focus on collaborations across campus and with in local communities. DK Alumni Fellows of the three Summer Institutes are…

The Democratizing Knowledge (DK) Collective presents the Webinar Series, Communities of Color, (In)Justice, and Multiple Pandemics. This series addresses the multiple pandemics facing communities of…

This gathering convened alumni of the Democratizing Knowledge Summer Institute for a two-day writing symposium. The three-year series of Summer Institutes (2016-18) brought together scholar and…

Asmarina is a documentary that depicts the presence of the habesha community in the city of Milan through collective memories recorded in personal archives. Through photograph, music and stories the…

Inspired by true events, 3000 Nights tells the story of a newlywed Palestinian schoolteacher who is falsely arrested and incarcerated in an Israeli prison where she gives birth to her son. Through…

Dr. Griselda Rodriguez-Solomon is a mother, Birth Justice Advocate, Professor at the City College of New York, and kundalini yogi. Trained under Ancient Song Doula Services, Griselda’s praxis…

The University observes Black History Month with a visit by A.D. Carson, a hip-hop scholar who created a popular rap album to defend his Ph.D. dissertation at Clemson University. Carson, assistant…

Mele Murals is a documentary on the transformative power of modern graffiti art and ancient Hawaiian culture for a new generation of Native Hawaiians. Set against the resurgence of Hawaiian language…

Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development renewable energy and food systems. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern…

Dr. LeConté Dill is an Assistant Professor (Depar tment of Community Health Sciences) where she teaches predominantly first-generation and students of color, many of whom are experiencing family…

Considered a national exper t in Iroquois agriculture, Jane is currently an Associate Professor in the Depar tment of Hor ticulture at Cornell University. Her research focuses on Iroquois…

DK invites you to an evenin g with Dr. Gloria Joseph, author of The Wind is Spirit. The Wind is Spirit was born from an interview conducted by groundbreaking author and activist Dr. Gloria Joseph,…

Grace Lee Boggs is a 98-year-old Chinese American woman, writer, activist, and philosopher rooted for more than 70 years in the African American movement. This film plunges us into Boggs’s…

The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo explores the artistic contributions of one of Africa’s foremost woman writers, a trailblazer for an entire generation of exciting new talent, including internationally…

Wednesday, March 25 – Presumed Incompetent: A Conversation on Navigating Academia. Join us in a group dialogue between faculty and graduate students of color. Dinner is provided. Please RSVP…

Diana Ferrus is an internationally-acclaimed South African poet, activist, and storyteller. Her poem “I’ve come to take you home” for Sarah Baartman, a Khoi Khoi woman who was…

The growth of feminist and ethnic studies has opened up new theoretical frontiers in social justice pedagogy and research. These interrogate the meaning of “the public” in the context of…

A 2-day (14 hour) intensive documentary production workshop focusing on preproduction and production by award winning filmmakers, C. A. Griffith and H. L. T. Quan of QUAD Productions. Participants…

América’s Home is the story of América “Meca” Sorrentini-Blaut, a feisty Puerto Rican woman in her 70’s and her fight against developers intent on bulldozing her community…

Sean Arce, former director of Arizona’s Tucson Unified School District’s outlawed Mexican American Studies (MAS) Program. Co-sponsors: Latino/a-Latin American Studies, University College,…