BLAC at UC

We kicked off our Summer Book Club yesterday. Our featured author and book are Saida Grundy's Respectable: Politics and Paradoxes in Making the Morehouse Man

But don't worry if you missed the kickoff as we still have sessions planned through the end of August:

Session #1: June 13th, 3 – 4pm

Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1

Session #2: June 27th, 3 – 4pm

Chapter 2

Session #3: July 18th, 3 – 4pm

Chapter 3

Session #4: August 8th, 3 – 4pm

Chapter 4

Session #5: August 29th , 3 – 4pm

Saida Grundy meet and chat

Please reach out to Charron or Dennis and we will get you added to the zoom invite.

If you missed the BLAC@UC Womxn's Panel you can watch the recording which is now up on our YouTube:

BLAC@UC Womxn's History Month Panel On March 14th, the Black Leadership Alliance Council at the University of California (BLAC@UC) invited four emerging leaders to a roundtable in recognition o...

You still have time to register for the BLAC@UC roundtable discussion with four emergent leaders from across the University of California in celebration of Womxn’s History Month on Thursday March 14th from 11am to noon PST. Interested attendees can register at https://bit.ly/blacwhm24

During the conversation panel members will reflect on their journey to date and how we as a community can support Black womxn in the UC. The panel will include:

Maria Martin (University of California, Merced)
Davyda Johnson (University of California, San Diego)
Katina Napper (University of California, Riverside)
Mali Williams (University of California, Berkeley)

The panel will also be moderated by BLAC@UC Steering Committee member Eboni Shaw (University of California, Los Angeles).

BLAC@UC has confirmed our Womxn’s History Month panel on March 14th from 11am to noon. We are pleased to host a roundtable discussion with four emergent leaders in the UC and our own Eboni Shaw (UCLA) as facilitator. You can register at https://bit.ly/blacwhm24 and please share widely

Co-founders in attendance

The Black Leadership Alliance Council (BLAC@UC) is pleased to co-sponsor Bridging the Gap Between Science and Equity with Lisa M. Jones, the Chancellor’s Associates Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California San Diego on Thursday September 14th at 4pm PST.

This talk will focus on research in health disparities as well as efforts to increase diversity in the STEM pipeline.

You can visit the event website here: https://biomaterials.berkeley.edu/events/

Check out our new website: https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/blacuc/ courtesy of our Communications Director, Thembi

New logo alert! Thanks so much to our Chair Eboni Shaw and her talented students at UCLA