Due to the ongoing strike by our graduate student employees in their efforts to secure a fair contract protecting tuition waivers, a marginal raise, and affordable healthcare (among other issues), the events featuring Aijen Poo will be moved from the Levis Faculty Center to the University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright Street. As a longstanding social justice organizer for the past two decades, Ms. Poo stands in solidarity with workers, whether the domestic workers who care for our homes and families, or the graduate student workers educating our young people and producing knowledge.
Reception and Discussion on Organizing 1.30-3.00pm, YMCA, 2nd floor

Ai-jen Poo, renowned activist and thought-leader, will speak about the current political climate and the importance of creating a multi-racial, multi-generational movement that centers on the most vulnerable among us. Using the work of the National Domestic Worker Alliance as an example, Poo will explore the enormous potential for change in this moment as well as her conviction that we are "all activists now.”

Ai-jen Poo is the author of The Age of Dignity: Caring for a Changing America (2015) and winner of a 2014 MacArthur “genius” grant.

Hosted by: Department of Asian American Studies

In conjunction with: Campus Faculty Association, Center on Health, Aging, and Disability (CHAD), College of Applied Health Sciences, College of Business, College of Labor and Employment Relations, Department of African American Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Department of History, Department of Latina/o Studies, Department of Media and Cinema Studies, Department of Political Science, Department of Psychology, Department of Sociology, Graduate Employees' Organization, Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations, School of Social Work, Spurlock Museum