Hacking the University

Program Cover featuring Black and White Artwork titled Radio City by Christian Mendoza, text reads Hacking the University Reckoning with Racial Equity Climate Justice and Global Warming

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How can we hack ‘business as usual’ for our campuses and communities to face our current crises better and together? Join us for a virtual series of sessions grappling with global warming, including the critical matters of racial equity and climate justice. 

 

Featured speakers include:

  • Ana Baptista | Environmental urban planner; Chair, Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management Graduate Program, The New School for Social Research
  • Sabre Bee | Co-founder, Newark Water Coalition
  • Kristi Pullen Fedinick | Biologist and Director, Science and Data, Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Roderick Ferguson | race, sexuality and critical studies, Yale University  
  • Yvette Jordan | Educator, Newark Public Schools; Founding member, Newark Education Workers Caucus
  • Winona LaDuke | (Anishinaabekwe) Organizer and eco-economist, Founder, Honor the Earth
  • Helena D. Lewis | Poet, Playwright, and Doctor of Social Work, New Jersey
  • Max Liboiron | (Métis) Science and technology studies and Co-founder, Civic Lab for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR), Memorial University at Newfoundland
  • Vincent Mann | Water protector and community organizer, Turtle Clan Chief of the Ramapough Lenape Nation
  • Morgan L. Ridgway | (Nanticoke-Lenape) Historian, Ph.D. ABD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear | (Cheyenne & Chicana) Sociology and American Indian Studies, UCLA
  • Brent Stonefish | Educator, Eelūnaapèewi Lahkèewiit (Delaware Nation), Ontario
  • K. Wayne Yang | Educator and Provost, John Muir College, UC-San Diego
  • Reverend Lennox Yearwood, Jr. | President and Founder, Hip Hop Caucus

 

Rutgers speakers:

  • Nancy Cantor | Psychologist and Chancellor, Rutgers University-Newark (RU-N)
  • Alexandra Chang | Curator and art historian, Interim Associate Director, Clement A. Price Institute, RU-N
  • Timothy K. Eatman | Educator and Dean, Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC), RU-N
  • Jonathan Holloway | Historian and President, Rutgers University
  • Rosamond S. King | Poet and Scholar; Director, Ethyle R. Wolfe Humanities Center, Brooklyn College, CUNY
  • Kevin Lyons | Supply-chain environmental archaeologist, Rutgers Business School
  • Neil M. Maher | Environmental historian, Federated History Department at NJIT and RU-N
  • Jacqueline S. Mattis | Social psychologist and Dean, SASN, RU-N
  • Isabel Nazario | Associate Vice President for Strategic Initiatives in the Arts and Humanities, Rutgers University
  • Jack Tchen | Public historian and Director, Clement A. Price Institute, RU-N

This program is organized by Jack Tchen, Public Historian and Director of the Clement A. Price Institute, Rutgers University-Newark, Alexandra Chang, Curator and art historian; Interim Associate Director, Clement A. Price Institute, Rutgers-Newark, Rosamond S. King, Poet & Scholar; Director, Ethyle R. Wolfe Humanities Center, Brooklyn College, CUNY, and Neil Maher, Environmental historian, Federated History Department at NJIT and Rutgers University-Newark.

We express our appreciation to sponsors, the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, & the Office of the Chancellor, RU-Newark. We extend gratitude to Professors Robert Goodman and Robert Kopp for advice on programming, and for coordination and tech support to the Office of the Associate Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Associate Vice President for Strategic Initiatives Isabel Nazario, Glenda Daniel, Alice Hernandez, Richard Rodriguez and to RU-iTV.

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If you would like more information or have questions about the event, please email us at priceinstitute@newark.rutgers.edu