[DSOSU] [DISCO] TOMORROW!! - Panel Discussion: Immigration, Education, and Race in 2017 - October 27, 2017

[Toni Calbert]

Dear Students and Colleagues,



Please share news of this event with your students and departments. Invite
people. Offer your students extra credit. Join us for discussion! Recent
events prompt us to help educate the OSU community on these vital
questions. We would love to see many allies at this event! ☺

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A Panel Featuring Ethnic Studies Scholars and Columbus Leaders
<https://latino-astudies.osu.edu/events/education-immigration-and-culture-2017>

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*Friday, October 27th11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.Ohio Union, Sphinx Centennial
Leadership Suite*


Speakers:


*Elizabeth C. Brown*,
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Columbus City Council Member
*Professor Lucila Ek*, Bilingual and Bicultural Studies, University of
Texas at San Antonio
*Assistant Professor Kevin Escudero*, American Studies and Ethnic Studies,
Brown University



About Speakers:


*Elizabeth C. Brown* was elected in November of 2015 to Columbus City
Council. Brown served as an economic development manager to the City of
Columbus
and
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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.

*Lucila del Carmen Ek* 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.


*Kevin Escudero* is the son of a Bolivian immigrant father and Vietnamese
refugee mother.
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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.



                                    AFTERNOON SESSION



Please also join us for an *afternoon discussion for OSU students and
faculty* 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.


*Friday, October 27th*

*2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.*

*Ohio Union, *
*​Sphinx Centennial Leadership Suite*


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This event is co-sponsored by the Latina/o Studies
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Asian American Studies Programs
​, and the Comparative Studies Department​**



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-- 
Toni Calbert
Ph.D Candidate
English Department
The Ohio State University
calbert.5 at osu.edu
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