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</div><div><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><a href="https://latino-astudies.osu.edu/events/education-immigration-and-culture-2017" target="_blank">A Panel Featuring Ethnic Studies Scholars and Columbus Leaders</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><font style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"></font></font></p><b><font size="4" face="times new roman, serif">Friday, October 27th<br>11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.<br>Ohio Union, Sphinx Centennial Leadership Suite</font></b><p></p><p></p><u></u><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4">Speakers: </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><br></font></p><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><b>Elizabeth C. Brown</b>,<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>Columbus City Council Member<br><b>Professor Lucila Ek</b>, Bilingual and Bicultural Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio<br><b>Assistant Professor Kevin Escudero</b>, American Studies and Ethnic Studies, Brown University<br></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"> <b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4">About Speakers:</font><span style="font-size:12.8px"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></p><b>Elizabeth C. Brown</b> was elected in November of 2015 to Columbus City Council. Brown served as an economic development manager to the City of Columbus<br>and<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>worked with middle school students to improve literacy as a City Year Americorps member. As chair of the Economic Development Committee, Brown has pushed to add a $15-per-hour wage floor for the city’s jobs incentives and has commissioned a comprehensive study of the city’s tax incentive policies that will ensure Columbus’ toolbox of incentives provides the greatest possible benefit. Other initiatives reflect Brown’s focus on broadening access to opportunity and strengthening women and families. In response to a spike in vandalism and police calls to reproductive health clinics, she passed a law to prevent harassment of workers and patients. Brown led the implementation of a paid family leave policy for city employees – the first of its kind in the Midwest and the third nationally. Brown introduced and passed an ordinance to promote the hiring of disadvantaged workers by companies who bid on city construction projects. And currently, Brown is working to keep immigrant and refugee families together by assembling a fund to address the increased need for legal services.</div><div><br><b>Lucila del Carmen Ek</b> was born in Yucatan, Mexico and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of four. Dr. Ek's concern for issues of equity and access in education has its roots in her own formal schooling experiences. She attended public schools from k-12th grades in Los Angeles and quickly realized that many of her fellow working-class immigrant Latino/a peers were left behind. Thus, when she began her teaching career eighteen years ago, she chose to teach in a bicultural-bilingual program at the very same elementary school she had attended from k-6th grades. She received her PhD in Urban Schooling from the University of California Los Angeles. Her research focuses on the intersections of language, literacy, and identity in Chican@/Latin@ immigrant communities. Language and literacy are productive lenses and important sites of inquiry because they tap into essential processes not only of growth, learning, and development but also of becoming, of constructing identities. Dr. Ek examines these processes within and across educational settings, both formal and informal, including schools, homes, and churches with the intent of bridging these spaces.<br><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><u></u> <u></u></p><b>Kevin Escudero</b> is the son of a Bolivian immigrant father and Vietnamese refugee mother.<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>Dr. Escudero received his Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from U.C. Berkeley and M.S.L. from Yale Law School. His research interests focus on race and ethnicity, immigration and social movements and his book manuscript, Organizing While Undocumented, (under contract with NYU Press) examines instances of racial and ethnic coalition building in the immigrant rights movement. Dr. Escudero’s second book project seeks to understand the relationship between undocumented immigrants and refugee community members in the context of the U.S. as a settler colonial state. His work has received funding from the National Science Foundation, American Sociological Association and U.C. Berkeley Center for the Study of Law and Society.</div><div><u><br></u><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> <wbr> </span><font size="4">AFTERNOON SESSION</font><span style="font-size:12.8px"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px">Please also join us for an <b>afternoon discussion for OSU students and faculty</b> on strengthening Ethnic Studies at OSU, supporting DACA and immigrant students, and supporting all students from underrepresented groups on campus. Both Professors Ek and Escudero will share some of their experiences.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><b><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Friday, October 27<sup>th</sup><u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><b><span class="m_-3275979978917218243gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-3275979978917218243gmail-aQJ">2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.</span></span><u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Ohio Union, </b></p><div style="font-size:small;display:inline"><b>Sphinx Centennial Leadership Suite</b></div></div><div><div style="font-size:small;display:inline"><b><br></b></div></div><div><div style="font-size:small;display:inline"><b><br></b></div></div><div><div style="display:inline"><font style="font-family:"times new roman",serif" size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">**</div>This event is co-sponsored by the Latina/o Studies<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"> and </div>Asian American Studies Programs<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">, and the Comparative Studies Department**</div></font><b style="font-size:small"><br></b></div></div><div><b><br><u></u></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><img src="cid:ii_j8ni21ys0_15f0d2ac4a5bba49" width="365" height="472" style="font-size:small;font-family:"times new roman",serif;margin-right:0px"><br><u></u></p></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></font></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><font face="times new roman, serif">-- <br></font><div class="m_-3275979978917218243gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Toni Calbert</font><div><font face="times new roman, serif">Ph.D Candidate</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif">English Department</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif">The Ohio State University</font></div><div><a href="mailto:calbert.5@osu.edu" target="_blank"><font face="times new roman, serif">calbert.5@osu.edu</font></a></div></div></div>
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