The Power of One: Awareness, Change, Responsibility Social Justice Institute is a free one-day conference for ISU students, faculty, and staff. The conference is scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. January 31 in the Prairie Room of the Bone Student Center.
This event will provide participants with an opportunity "to explore the identities that make up who they are and help them gain a better understanding of how these identities impact everything they do." Nationally recognized consultants Sam Offer and Monica Collins will coordinate activities. Offer is a senior consultant with the Washington Consulting Group, a multicultural organizational development firm based in Baltimore. Collins works in the Women and Gender Advocacy Center at Colorado State University as the assistant director for prevention and education programs and victim advocate, and teaches courses on violence prevention, gender socialization, and race/ethnicity in popular media.
Through facilitated activities and exercises along with small group dialogue, participants in the ISU conference will engage in conversations that will "challenge and support them in their journey toward understanding how they can individually impact our global community." Breakfast and lunch will be provided for participants.
Apply online by January 23 at www.deanofstudents.illinoisState.edu.
The event is sponsored by Diversity Advocacy, which works to foster civility and raise cultural awareness among students, faculty, and staff. Diversity Advocacy helps multicultural and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students find their way at Illinois State University through a variety of resources, programs, activities and advising.
It also works to facilitate a supportive campus environment in which multicultural and LGBT students "can flourish academically and socially."