University of Dayton Human Rights

🤖 SPHR26 Plenary 2: Technological Transformation

How are emerging AI technologies shaping human rights—especially around race and gender?

Join a roundtable with Janet Gbam, Dr. Adebayo Oluwayomi, Julio C. Mateo, Dani Pinter, and Adebayo Okeowo, moderated by Tony Talbott, as they explore the opportunities and risks of AI for justice, accountability, and human dignity.

📅 April 9–11 | University of Dayton
🔗 Register: Link in bio

🎨 Artivism as Resistance — SPHR 26 Plenary 1

Artists, organizers, and storytellers are pushing the boundaries of dissent and imagination. This plenary brings together voices using creativity as a powerful tool for social change.

Featuring:
✨ Zainab Fasiki, Comics Author & Artivist
✨ Jewher Ilham, Labor Rights Advocate
✨ Lincoln “Link” Schreiber, SlamMaster
✨ Dana M. Graham, Social Curator & Founder of Scripted in Black
✨ Crack Rodriguez, Artivist
✨ ShaDawn Battle, Professor, Xavier University

Join us April 9–11 for SPHR 26 Creative Resistance: Artivism, Technology, and the Right to Dissent.

🔗 Register via the link in our bio

Join us for a conversation on:

Access to Justice: South-South Strategies for Dismantling Discriminatory Laws and Practices Against Women

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Through an opening panel discussion, followed by a fireside chat, we'll explore how legacies of colonial legal systems, patriarchal norms, and other discriminatory laws and practices undermine global access to justice for women and girls.

Expert speakers will highlight innovative, movement-based approaches to reforming some of these laws and offer insights into best practices and effective strategies. This is an interactive space, so attendees will be encouraged to contribute their experiences and perspectives to the conversation.

🗓️ Wednesday, March 11, 2026
🕓 5:30-8:30pm ET
📍 New York City Bar Association, 42 W. 44th St., New York or virtual via Zoom

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In person 👉 https://lnkd.in/e-B5qN-W
Virtual 👉 https://lnkd.in/ecDAVvjY

37 days & counting! 🔥

Meet our SPHR 26 keynote speaker, Varun Gauri — award-winning novelist and former World Bank economist whose debut novel, For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus, was named an NPR Best Book of 2024 and won the 2024 Carol Trawick Fiction Prize.

Drawing on decades of global research in social policy and behavioral economics, his work bridges storytelling and human rights to explore power, inequality, and moral choice.

Join us April 9–11 for SPHR26: Creative Resistance: Artivism, Technology, and the Right to Dissent.

🔗 Register via the link in our bio
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INTERNATIONAL BREAKOUT: GHANA
December 12–22, 2026

Ready to put human rights into action?

Join the University of Dayton’s Human Rights Center & ETHOS Center for an interdisciplinary international breakout in Tamale, Ghana. Students will:

✨ Partner with Spark of Hope to advance the rights and well-being of children and families
💧 Explore the human right to water & sanitation through hands-on infrastructure evaluation
🤝 Integrate social justice and human rights frameworks into real-world community development
📚 Travel as a unified cohort after taking EGR-330/HRS in Fall 2026

📅 Registration Deadline: March 31
📲 Apply on Studio Abroad (link in our bio!)

Step into global solidarity. Learn boldly. Serve ethically.

Please join the University of Dayton community next Thursday February 19 from 5:30-8pm in Sears Recital Hall on the University of Dayton campus for an intimate conversation between celebrated artist Willis “Bing” Davis and accomplished UD alumnus Dr. Jack Marchbanks, author of the forthcoming book Art and Activism: Jazz Artists and Writers in the Civil Rights Vanguard.

Dr. Marchbanks will be visiting the University from February 19-20 to share about his research, vocational journey, and life experience with students, faculty, and the broader community. The conversation will be hosted by Dr. Tiffany Taylor, UD’s Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion, as part of Black History Month programming.

From Dayton to Kenya, and soon Jamaica. Our teacher education students are learning that education doesn’t just cross borders, it connects them. Through global immersion and co-creative teaching, they’re discovering what it means to listen, learn, and walk with the world.

Read the UD Magazine story via the link in our bio!

“It’s right there in the name: Public Safety.”

The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center—known to its opponents as Cop City—is framed as an investment in protecting the public. But for many marginalized communities, policing is experienced not as safety, but as harm.

🎙️ Episode 3 of At the Root asks a necessary question:

Whose safety do police officers protect?

This episode examines who policing serves and who it harms, and how people organize to keep communities safe.

🎧 Listen via the link in out bio: https://soundcloud.com/moralcourageradio/publicsafety

📸: Dave Decker

Grief is not behind us. Neither is resistance.

In the wake of the killings in Minneapolis, we’re once again confronting a hard truth about where the U.S. stands: protest is essential, and increasingly policed.

🎙️ Episode 2 of At the Root is now live.

This episode explores the environmental advocacy of the movement to Stop Cop City through the words of Dr. Jackie Echols of the South River Watershed Alliance, Matthew Johnson and the Forest Defenders, and Belkis Teran, the mother of Manuel Esteban “Tortuguita” Teran—the first environmental defender killed by law enforcement in U.S. history.

This is a conversation about policing, land defense, and the right to protest in the United States today.

Listening is an act of moral courage.

Link in bio.

This week, we launch the first episode of the new season of Moral Courage Radio - At the Root: Policing and the Right to Protest.

The release comes in the shadow of a painful anniversary: the killing of Tortuguita, whose death galvanized the Stop Cop City and Defend the Atlanta Forest movements.

In this first episode, we feature the testimony of .michelle_atl who examines what it means to dissent, who bears the cost of resistance, and why the right to protest remains essential to democratic life.

🎧 Listen to Episode 1 now via the link in our bio. With original music by