Plan for All is a student committee in DCRP that works on issues of equity, inclusivity, diversity, and social justice. This year, we hope to push for greater inclusion of these topics in the classroom, and to learn from the existing wisdom around campus. We also hope to expand these conversations into a year-long learning series of trainings that will help us better integrate diversity, oppression, and social justice analyses into the DCRP experience.
We recently hosted a student panel to discuss and brainstorm resources on campus relating to equity, diversity and social justice. Below is a the resource list that we created during the session. We hope that it will prove to be a useful tool for students here at DCRP, and for anyone else in the wider UNC community interested in these issues.
Plan for All events for Fall 2015:
Brown Bags (12.30-1.45pm in the Reading Room)
- Wednesday, September 16th: Durham Mayor Bill Bell
- Wednesday, September 30th: Cherie Jzar, NC-APA Diversity Committee Chair
- Wednesday, October 28th: Gavin Smith, Research Professor at DCRP & Director, US Department of Homeland Security’s Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence
- Wednesday, November 11th: TBA
Plan for All Meetings (12.30-1.45pm in New East 305)
- Wednesday, September 9th
- Wednesday, October 7th
- Wednesday, November 18th
Campus Wide Resources and Events:
- Minority Health Conference General Interest Meeting (this year’s theme: Public Health and Social Justice) on Wednesday, September 2nd
- Black & Blue Tour on Thursday, September 3rd
- Martin Eakes gives Lambeth Lecture at Gerrard Hall at 5:30pm on October 1st
- Feminism Here & Now Conference on November 6th and 7th
- Organizing Against Racism North Carolina (Awareness to Analysis & Analysis to Action Workshops in Fall 2015)
- Durham Community Land Trustees
- Real Silent Sam Campaign
- Stone Center for Black Culture and History at UNC
- Campus Y
- PolicyLink’s “Equitable Growth Profile of the Research Triangle Region:” $20 billion negative impact of race inequalities in the Triangle region
- Forward Cities Collaborative (Durham, New Orleans, Detroit, and Cleveland)
- Jackson Center for Saving and Making History
- Duke Center for Documentary Studies
- MTV White People Documentary
- Carolina Conversations
- Homework Help (& Snacks) on Wednesdays 8am-12pm at the Institute for Minority Excellence (ask Kado for details)
- Safe Zone Training with the LGBTQ Center
- Diversity & Multicultural Affairs Office
- The Men’s Project: Healthy Masculinity
- UNC American Indian Center
- Global South and the Developing World Group (talk to Mia for details)
- Institute of African-American Research at UNC
- Dismantling Racism Works
- SpiritHouse in Durham, NC
Relevant UNC Courses:
- Race, Poverty, and Planning Course (PLAN 590)
- Michele Berger in Women’s Studies Course on Intersectionality
- Public Administration Course: Faces and Places (Leisha DeHart-Davis)
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