The Center for Service in Action is excited to announce the 18th Annual Change the Status Quo: Social Justice Leadership Conference on Saturday, February 29, 2020.
This conference aims to empower students to use the Learn by Doing spirit to challenge social norms, ask critical questions, demand solutions and make lasting social change. Through guest speakers, inspiring workshops, and engaging sessions, students will leave the conference with a new-found sense and understanding of social justice, and how they can take ownership of their role in moving the needle with regard to social change. This is the 18th annual student-led CSQ Conference hosted by the Center for Service in Action.
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PRICING:
Full Conference – 8 AM to 6 PM – Includes breakfast, lunch and appetizers
Cal Poly Students – $10*
General Admission – $30
Keynote Only – 8 AM to 10:30 AM – Includes breakfast
Cal Poly Students – $10*
General Admission – $15
The conference will take place on Cal Poly’s campus, with keynote, meals and plenary sessions happening in the Multi-Use Activity Center (MAC) and workshops taking place in various classrooms and spaces within the University Union. More detailed information and day-of schedule will be available soon.
*We are committed to making this event accessible to all individuals and will provide ASL interpretation, ADA accessibility and other accommodations. We will also provide fee waivers to Cal Poly students as requested. Please email us for more information.
We are thrilled to announce that this year’s keynote speaker is political and social activist, scholar, author, educator and National Women’s Hall of Fame honoree, Angela Davis.
Through her activism and scholarship over many decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice.
Professor Davis’ teaching career has taken her to San Francisco State University, Mills College, and UC Berkeley. She also has taught at UCLA, Vassar, Syracuse University the Claremont Colleges, and Stanford University. Most recently she spent fifteen years at the University of California Santa Cruz where she is now Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness – an interdisciplinary Ph.D program – and of Feminist Studies.
Angela Davis is the author of ten books and has lectured throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America. In recent years a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She draws upon her own experiences in the early seventies as a person who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List.” She also has conducted extensive research and published work on numerous issues related to race, gender and imprisonment.
We are thrilled to bring her to Cal Poly’s campus to kick-off this year’s conference. Please see registration section below for more information on how you can attend the conference and her keynote presentation.
There will be 4 workshop times throughout the day. Workshops have been grouped into tracks so you can focus on increasing your knowledge over a single topic, or you may pick and choose individual ones that resonate most with you. More detailed descriptions will be available closer to the event on this website and via the Cal Poly Now app.
Activism
From Disability Rights to Disability Justice
Bailey Hamblin & John Lee – Disability Faculty & Staff Association
Building Solidarity Through Community Engagement
Lilianne Tang – Cal Poly Multicultural Center
Know Your Rights: How to Use Privilege/Knowledge to Reduce the Risk in Encounters with ICE
Adrian Torres, Cal Poly Student
2020 Social Justice Debate Champ vs. Cal Poly
Cal Poly Debate Team
Allyship
Radicalism of Love, Empathy & Respect
Manmit Chahal – Mustangs UNITED
Myths vs. Facts About Undocumented Students
Dream Center Team & UndocuAlly Working Group
UndocuAlly Training
Jane Lehr, Catherine Trujillo, and members of Central Coast Coalition for Undocumented Student Success
Culture
Redefining Death: Death Positivity for Self Empowerment
Eden Knapp – ECOSLO & Bailey Hamblin – Cal Poly Disability Resource Center
Say My Name, Say My Name: Power of Recognizing Identity
Kavya Makam & Anjana Melvin – Cal Poly Women in Business
Building Relationships Across Cultures & Religions
Interfaith Campus Council Panelists
Portray the Way You Slay
Adrienne Garcia-Specht, Jane Lehr, Catherine Trujillo – Central Coast Coalition for Undocumented Student Success
Education
Abolitionist Teaching for Students of Color
Oscar Navarro, Jess Jensen, Tine Cheuk, Julee Bauer, Briana Ronan, & K-12 Educators – Cal Poly School of Education
Autistic Neurodiversity
Debra Balke, M.D. – Child Neurology of SLO
Emotion and the Creative Purpose of Neurosis
Kelsey Zazanis – Cal Poly Student
Decolonizing Community Based Learning: Moving Beyond White Privilege & the Savior Complex
Julia Heinen, Daniell Spratt & Svetlana Tyutina – CSU Northridge, Office of Community Engagement
Environment
Environmental Movement
Kari Mansager & Kylee Singh – Cal Poly Sustainability and Diversity & Inclusion in University Housing
Stories We Inhabit: Reflections on Art, Architecture & the Built EnvironmentPadma Maitland & Sydney Nguyen – Cal Poly College of Architecture and Environmental Design
How to Value Trash
Jamie Ding – Cal Poly Kennedy Library
Gender & Sexuality
Let’s Talk About X: Language as a Tool for Empowerment
Katie Ettl – Cal Poly Gender Equity Center
Teaching Queer Ethnic Studies
Mario Espinoza-Kulick & Alex Espinoza-Kulick – Cal Poly SLO & Cuesta College Faculty
A Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention
Jennifer MacMartin & Meg Stuart – Cal Poly Safer
Leadership
It’s the Little Things
Lara Jimenez – Cal Poly Mustang Success Center
Learners & Leaders: Asian American Women Redefining Leadership
Lilianne Tang & Olivia Tran – Cal Poly Asian Pactific Islander Faculty Staff Association
Self Care for Leaders
Elizabeth Barrett, MA, LMFT – KCBX Public Radio, Cal Poly Psychology & Child Development Department
Restorative Justice
Race, Privilege and Oppression: Whats Your Story?
Leonard Flippen – One Community Action, Conflict Solution Center
Ethics of Care – Prison
Adrian Fimbres – Cal Poly Student
Experiencing Life as a Recently Released Criminal Offender
Kylie Parrotta & Kim Reeves – Cal Poly Social Science Department & US Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware
Kinship, Mutuality & Restorative Justice: Programming in County Jail & Juvenile Hall
Alexis Chang & Vivien Devaney – Restorative Partners
White Privilege
Bridging the Divide: Cultivating and Sustaining Interracial Friendships
Stephanie Allen & Dr. Leola Dublin Macmillan – R.A.C.E. Matters SLO
Privilege Museum: Your Personal Relationship with Privilege
Emily Ryalls & Megan Berndt-Lambertz – Cal Poly Students
Reflections Turned to Action: Reflection on White Privilege
Jerusha Greenwood, Bree Hugin & Sarah Macdonald – Cal Poly Staff & Faculty
White+Male=What? Understanding White Male Privilege
Nick Bilich – Cal Poly Men & Masculinities Program
