2018 Social Justice Day Schedule and Speakers

2018 SOCIAL JUSTICE DAY SCHEDULE AND SPEAKERS

WELCOME FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL

We are pleased to host our 6th Annual Social Justice Day at University Prep.

As we did last year, we offer a conference-style experience for our student participants, who have the opportunity to attend sessions based on their interests. This format has galvanized our faculty and staff to step forward to design and lead a wide range of thought-provoking sessions with the goal of creating a safe space for critical analysis and conversation on contemporary social justice topics. On Social Justice Day, we suspend regular academic classes so that every member of our community is able to lean in and engage in dialogue to promote deeper understanding of identities and issues.

Ijeoma Oluo, our keynote speaker and the author of the recently released So You Want To Talk About Race, will launch the day in the Gym and help to set the stage for dialogue. Her new book brings together personal experiences with poignant anecdotes to position us to gain greater insight into and understanding of how to engage in dialogue on difficult topics and issues. Our hope is that Social Justice Day unites our community around our Mission, Vision, and Values and challenges us to enter into critical analysis and dialogue.

Sincerely,

Matt Levinson Head of School

p1 | University Prep | Social Justice Day | March 13, 2018 WELCOME FROM THE DIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY OFFICE

Welcome to the UPrep 6th Annual Social Justice Day!

Social Justice Day has quickly grown to be one of the hallmark events at University Prep. Yearly on this day, students, staff, faculty, and guests are given the opportunity to dive deep and engage in topics and discussions that they may not get to have on a day-to-day basis. The mission of University Prep is to develop each student’s potential to become an intellectually courageous, socially responsible citizen of the world, and Social Justice Day is just one way to ensure we are living our mission.

Engaging in, and talking about, social justice can be difficult. But current events in our nation show us that it is imperative that when students leave UPrep they be ready and able to engage in dialogue with those who are different from them, to learn how to hear marginalized voices, and to have empathy for others, even when there are differing opinons.

Social Justice Day is the time for learning from others, hearing stories and voices that may be different from our own, and for some there will be some discomfort. We encourage you to lean into the discomfort and engage in the discussion.

We thank all of you for your support of this very important day and for helping UPrep live out our mission, not just on Social Justice Day, but every day.

Sincerely,

Shavette McGhee, Pedro Cordoba, and E-chieh Lin The UPrep Diversity and Community Office

University Prep | Social Justice Day | March 13, 2018 | p2 MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHEDULE

8:25 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Welcome

8:30 a.m. – 8:55 a.m. Opening Keynote Speaker: Ijeoma Oluo

8:55 a.m. – 9:05 a.m. Break

9:05 a.m. – 10:05 a.m. Workshop Block 1

10:05 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Break

10:20 a.m. – 11:20 a.m. Workshop Block 2

11:20 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. Lunch

11:55 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Open Session

12:50 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Affinity Group Space

2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Break

2:20 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. Closing Speaker: Draze

p3 | University Prep | Social Justice Day | March 13, 2018 UPPER SCHOOL SCHEDULE

8:25 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Welcome

8:30 a.m. – 8:55 a.m. Opening Keynote Speaker: Ijeoma Oluo

8:55 a.m. – 9:05 a.m. Break

9:05 a.m. – 10:05 a.m. Workshop Block 1

10:05 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Break

10:20 a.m. – 11:20 a.m. Workshop Block 2

11:25 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Featured Speakers: Danni Askini, Jon Greenberg, Ray Corona, Tom Ikeda, Unconference

12:15 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. Lunch

12:50 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Affinity Group Space

2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Break

2:20 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. Closing Speaker: Draze

University Prep | Social Justice Day | March 13, 2018 | p4 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

IJEOMA OLUO | 8:30 a.m. – 8:55 a.m. | GYM

Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based writer, speaker, and “Internet Yeller.” She’s the author of the New York Times Best-Seller So You Want to Talk about Race, published in January by Seal Press. Named one of The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017, one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine, one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Seattle by Seattle Met, and winner of the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award by the American Humanist Society, Oluo’s work focuses primarily on issues of race and identity, feminism, social and mental health, social justice, the arts, and personal essay. Her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, NBC News, Elle Magazine, Time, The Stranger, and The Guardian, among other outlets.

Oluo is the Editor-at-Large of The Establishment, a media platform both run and funded by women, and she is the author of the first and second volumes of The Badass Feminist Coloring Book (2015), featuring celebratory essays on modern-day feminists. She earned her degree in Political Science from Western Washington University in 2007 and is the mother of two boys.

So You Want to Talk About Race: In the book, “So You Want to Talk About Race”, author Ijeoma Oluo offers a clarifying discussion of the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on the issues that divide us. Oluo is bringing this discussion to Social Justice Day and will explain the concepts that continue to elude everyday Americans, and answers questions that people don’t dare to ask, like “What is cultural appropriation?” “Why do I keep being told to check my privilege?” and more. She will also touch upon why it’s even more important than ever for the youth to be engaging in these necessary and challenging discussions surrounding race and identity in America.

Born in Seattle, the son of two African music legends, Dumisani Maraire, Sr. and Lora Chiorah- Dye, Draze moved to Zimbabwe at the age of six. When he returned to the U.S., Draze was introduced to hip hop on the streets of Seattle. Finding his passion in creating music he progressed as an MC, soon becoming one of the most respected hip hop artists in the Northwest. Draze received national recognition for his song and video, “The Hood Ain’t the Same,” which targets the issue of gentrification in America.

“My belief is that gentrification is one of the most important issues impacting Black communities in this generation. My hope is to grant participants a unique perspective of the African American journey by putting a face in front of the issue.”

Understanding the Impact of Gentrification: As a lifelong resident of Washington’s Central District and South end communities, Draze has witnessed first-hand the impacts of gentrification on Seattle’s African American communities. Through the powerful use of story, Draze takes listeners on a journey from his childhood community to a strange place that he used to call home. This message is designed to challenge our ideals, spark our curiosity, trigger empathy, and inspire humanity to truly move towards equality by ensuring thriving communities for all.

University Prep | Social Justice Day | March 13, 2018 | p6 FEATURED SPEAKERS

DANNI ASKINI | 11:25 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | LIBRARY

Danni Askini is the Founding Executive Director of Gender Justice League — a civil and human rights organization based in Seattle working to end oppression on the basis of gender and sexuality in Washington State. Previously she has worked as the National Program Director of GSA Network in San Francisco supporting GSAs in more than 4,000 schools across the country. Askini also created Seattle’s first trans health clinic at Verbena Health where she serves as Trans Health Director. She is a social worker and activist dedicated to social justice.

What Is Gender Justice? It is understanding the movement to achieve justice and equity for all people on the basis of gender. This workshop and talk will examine historical and current trends within LGBTQIA and Feminist activism for political, social, and cultural change that will bring about a more just world for people who are marginalized because of their gender or sexuality. Our workshop will examine the methods and avenues to create political, social, and cultural change as well as the roles large and small that people can play in bringing about that change. Participants will be encouraged to reflect and share in small groups what methods, tactics, and strategies they have seen used historically, and what avenues they are interested in using to create change. Participants should come prepared to reflect on the gender and sexuality issues that they have seen in social media and the news lately, as well as the types and forms of activism to address those issues. People will be broken out into affinity groups based on self-gender identification for a portion of the session.

Tom Ikeda is the founding executive director of Densho. He is a third-generation Japanese American who was born and raised in Seattle. Tom’s parents and grandparents were incarcerated during World War II at Minidoka, Idaho. In addition to leading the organization over the past 21 years, Ikeda has conducted over 250 video-recorded, oral history interviews with Japanese Americans. He has received numerous awards for his historical contributions, including the Humanities Washington Award for outstanding achievement in the public humanities, the National JACL Japanese American of the Biennium award for Education, and the Microsoft Alumni Integral Fellows Award. Densho is a Seattle-based, nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, educating, and sharing the story of World War II-era incarceration of Japanese Americans in order to deepen understandings of American history and inspire action for equity. Densho is a Japanese term meaning “to pass on to the next generation,” or to leave a legacy.

The orldW War II Japanese American Incarceration and Why It Matters Today 2018 marks the 76th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which led to the incarceration of 120,000 innocent Japanese Americans. To mark this anniversary, Densho Executive Director Tom Ikeda will discuss how this injustice happened during a time of fear and how we are seeing similar fears happening in America today. Ikeda will discuss how immigration bans, discriminatory laws, and incarceration in an American concentration camp affected his Gold Star Japanese immigrant grandparents.

University Prep | Social Justice Day | March 13, 2018 | p8 FEATURED SPEAKERS

JON GREENBURG | 11:25 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | FOUNDERS

Jon Greenberg is an award-winning public high school teacher and writer whose work has been featured in Everyday Feminism, NPR, HuffPost, Teaching Tolerance, and Yes! magazine. A local boy, Greenberg grew up on Queen Anne before attending Grinnell College and beginning his teaching career in New England and Bogotá, Colombia. For nearly 20 years since returning to Seattle, he has dedicated his career to social justice and civic engagement. He is currently working to ensure ethnic studies is taught throughout Seattle Public Schools.

The Benefits and Costs of Taking on Racism: The Story of the Seattle Race Curriculum Controversy What lessons can be learned from an attack against teaching race in one of the most liberal cities in the country, one simultaneously home to some of greatest racial disparities in the country? Hear from the teacher at the center of the controversy and learn how the experience galvanized a movement for ethnic studies in Seattle.

Originally from Mexico City, Ray Corona is an undocuqueer advocate who has called Everett home since the age of nine. Since then, Garcia went on to become a first-generation college student and proud alumnus of the University of Washington where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Society, Ethics and Human Behavior. His community and professional work has focused on providing access and building bridges among diverse communities. Some of his expertise includes leadership development for youth, creating culturally relevant college preparation programs, organizing youth and families, and building coalitions to craft community solutions for issues affecting marginalized communities. Corona is the first undocumented person to be appointed to the City of Seattle LGBTQ Commission, where he currently serves as a co-chair. Recently, he has begun working on a new organization called “Somos Seattle” meant to explore and foster the intersectionality of the Latinx LGBTQ community.

Undocumented, Unafraid, Queer and Unashamed! When your life is at the intersection of two communities fighting for the right to belong. “Undocuqueers” are bridging the gap between immigrant and mainstream LGBTQ communities in the U.S.

UNCONFERENCE | 11:25 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | UPPER COMMONS

University Prep | Social Justice Day | March 13, 2018 | p10 WORKSHOP BLOCK 1 | 9:05 a.m. – 10:05 a.m.*

TITLE LOCATION

Asian Stereotypes CL262 Author Ijeoma Oluo — Come discuss her book, So You Want to Talk About Race CL265 Breaking Stereotypes: The Power of Identity in the Quest for Social Justice CL163 Can a Private School be Socially Just? CL063 Competing Views on Jerusalem CL161 Consent and Bystander Action (Double block) C202 Conservative and Centrist Visions of Social Justice (Double block) A222 Cultural Food Diversity — Eating in America (Double block) A027 Dance Yourself Free (Double block) FA085 Decolonizing the Mind: The Phillippines and U.S. Imperialism (Double block) C203 Destruction of the Master Plan: Finding Your Voice and Creating Change Through Protest and Boycott CL164 Do Liberals “Own” Social Justice? CL266 Drop! Cover! Hold On! A226 Environmental Justice A220 Ethnic Hair Care Lab A024 Exploring Whiteness CL061 The Great White Way: Representation on Broadway CL268 LGBTQ+ Allyship CL165 Locked Up: The American Criminal Justice System CL067 More Than Just a Postcard: A Case for Hawaiian Culture CL070 Native Environmental Justice (Double block) C204

*Workshops marked “Double block” run until 11:20 a.m.

p11 | University Prep | Social Justice Day | March 13, 2018 TITLE LOCATION

New Neighbors: the Journey of Refugees and Asylum Seekers to the Seattle Area CL167 The Power of Empathy: Listening and Believing the Stories of LGBTQ+ Youth C201 A Primer on Privilege WALDEN Race, Gender, and More in Comics CL264 Refugees in Your Own Country (Double block) A026 A Social Justice Analysis of Organized Sports and Wellness FA282 Stories Worth Watching and Hearing: Diversity in Broadcast Journalism CL162 Taking a Stand Against Sex Trafficking in Thailand CL065 Teaching in Prisons LIBRARY Where’s the Good Food? Exploring Food Justice FA089

WORKSHOP BLOCK 2 | 10:20 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.

TITLE LOCATION

The Art of Rebellion: Social Justice and Chicano Visual Arts CL165 Beauty and the Beast CL168 Bleeding in Public: Feminine Hygiene Needs of the Homeless FA091 Chisme: Why Did People from the Latinx Community Vote for Trump? CL262 Colonization, Globalization, Displacement and Migration: Necessary Background for Discussing Immigration in the U.S., 2018 CL167 Creative Justice CL162

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University Prep | Social Justice Day | March 13, 2018 | p12 WORKSHOP BLOCK 2, CONT.

TITLE LOCATION

Disruptive Spirituality: Where Faith Meets Activism CL161 Everyone Learns Differently! LIBRARY Got Privilege? CL067 HEYO: Let’s Talk About It C207 How to Move Past Resistance and Gain Allies in Social Justice Work C206 Intersectionality 101 A024 LGBTQIA+: What Does All This Alphabet Soup Mean? CL065 Language in Popular Culture: Problematic or Nahhh…? CL268 Mass Incarceration of Black People CL070 Moral Courage During the Holocaust: One Family’s Rescue of Dutch Jews WALDEN Myanmar’s Rohingya — Victims of Genocide? CL266 Navigating My Life as a Black Minority from Seattle to an HBCU in Virginia and Back CL164 Peacemaking Circles FA089 Skin Deep FA281 The Story of an Image CL061 True Native Voice: What You Don’t Know About Indian Reservations CL267 Undocumented and Unafraid: the Dreamers’ Struggle FA282 Where Are You REALLY From? Asians as Perpetual Foreigners CL264 You Saw the Movie. Who Were the Real Black Panthers? CL163

p13 | University Prep | Social Justice Day | March 13, 2018 AFFINITY GROUPS | 12:50 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

An affinity group space is a gathering of people who share an identity (e.g., race, gender, religion, country of origin, language, etc.), experience or who have a common interest or goal. People who participate in affinity group spaces recognize that their identity affects the way in which they move through the world and want to explore that. Affinity groups provide opportunities for participants to reflect on that shared identity and their experiences.

Affinity groups allow people to: • Be in a safe space to talk about their shared experiences. • Build relationships and network. • Be in a space where everyone can speak from the “I” perspective. • Be in a space that can serve as a source of support and solidarity for the members. • Create a plan of action and gain tools.

TITLE LOCATION

Asian American/Pacific Islander FA085/DANCE Black/African American FA089 LGBTQI+ WALDEN Latinx CL265 Men FRIENDS CHURCH Middle Eastern CL161 Multiracial FA282 Neurodiversity CL162 Non-Traditional Families CL163 People of Faith CL165 Transracially Adopted CL166 White, European Heritage – Middle School LIBRARY White, European Heritage – Upper School TEMPLE BETH AM Women GYM

University Prep | Social Justice Day | March 13, 2018 | p14 OUR MISSION University Prep is committed to Thanks to the developing each student’s potential following visiting to become an intellectually courageous, socially responsible schools for their citizen of the world. participation:

DIVERSITY MISSION STATEMENT Billings University Prep’s mission compels Bishop Blanchet us to train and educate the next The Bush School generation of leaders who will Chief Sealth create impact and change in an Eastside Prep interdependent, complex, and Evergreen School global community. Our students need to see, hear, and understand Lakeside the diversity of people, perspectives Nathan Hale and points of view around them The Overlake School and the world they will lead in Rainier Beach the years ahead. Essential to this Sante Fe Prep proposition is the ability of our Seattle Academy students to identify, analyze, and Villa Academy act on issues of equity, justice, and inclusion. Our world demands it.

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