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“Evicted” Reading TUgether Lecture with Matthew Desmond @TrinityU
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ovyccOXyoQ] Reading TUgether is a University-wide common reading program in which the entire campus community, including students, parents, staff, faculty, and alumni, participate. Our book for 2017 is Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond. Desmond will deliver the Reading TUgether keynote lecture. Free and open to the public. Evicted is a sociological study that reads like a novel. Desmond paints a vivid picture of the real lives of tenants and landlords in low-income neighborhoods…
Find out more »Can We Talk? Women/Human Trafficking
"Human trafficking is modern-day slavery and involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act...". - dhs.gov Join us as we recognize Women's Equality for the month of August sharing topics of conversation focusing on Women. The topic will be focused on Women/Human Trafficking. with our expert guest speaker, Krista Leeburg Melton. Ms Melton is the Deputy Criminal Chief of the Human Trafficking and Transnational/Organized Crime Section of the Texas Attorney…
Find out more »Writing Workshop: Making the Personal Political
"Making the Personal Political: Transforming lived experiences into politically driven poetry" "For the purposes of this workshop, we will be focusing on sharing personal exeriences through poetry in order to shed light on critical issues of identity, social justice and politics."
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