Occidental College- Center for Community Based Learning

Team CCBL is excited to begin our Meet the EIA series once again, which was started by recent Oxy grad and EIA Coordinator 💛Kayla Williams💛. In this series, we seek to create space to highlight and honor the work of our EIA’s.

The first EIA in our series is Holland (she/her). She is a senior sociology major from Austin, Texas. Holland is facilitating the course Education 300: Community Engagement in Education with Professor Solórzano.

Holland’s favorite thing about being an EIA facilitator is the supportive, loving community that the program creates. She is grateful to have had the opportunity to practice fostering meaningful, reciprocal relationships with community and has been touched by how powerful these relationships are even in a time when our lives can feel so distant and disconnected from others. When Holland is not doing this work, she can be found sitting on her patio looking at Dolly Parton posters on Etsy, making her loved ones take the enneagram, or trying to teach herself to play the guitar. Something Holland is working on is learning to enjoy cooking and being more creative in the kitchen 🙂

Yay! 🎉 We are so happy to be working with you Holland! Please look forward to EIA introductions for the following weeks. Have a warm and restful weekend everyone!✨🍃🍁🌼

Please join zen priest and political strategist Norma Wong in a conversation about resilience, collective activism, and cultivating a practice for transformational social change. This event is taking place next Monday!

Monday | May 11, 2020
5-6:30PM
Zoom Link

Please RSVP to [email protected] for Zoom login information.

Oxy community, partners, and friends are all welcome!

The Fall 2020 CBLR Course List is on our website! Check out the amazing offerings for next semester:

https://www.oxy.edu/sites/default/files/assets/CCBL/course_list_fall_2020.pdf

As we all respond to the pandemic and find new ways to stay connected, we are excited to bring back our "Meet the EIAs" series. We are grateful to the amazing students who have been so resilient in this time of unprecedented change. Stay tuned for more posts from our students and community partners uplifting the amazing work they are doing!

Say hello to Etana! (Pronouns: she/her/hers). Etana is a Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture major from the Chicagoland-area. This semester she facilitated the Oxy Cinematheque Series with Professor Anderson.

As an EIA facilitator, she created promotional materials and acted as a liaison between Oxy and the greater Los Angeles community. Etana's work with the CCBL this semester taught her many things about leadership, responsibility, and community. Although her time as a facilitator was cut short, she is excited to continue contributing to Oxy as a student, leader, and worker, and in the future, and will hopefully continue participating and working in the arts.

Introducing the Third EIA in our series “Meet the EIAs” please say hello to Liv!! (Pronouns: she/her/hers). Liv is a junior Critical Theory and Social Justice major with an Education minor. This semester she is facilitating the course Education 300: Community Engagement in Education with Professor Terry.

Liv is grateful for her experiences practicing community-based learning because it continues to expand and uplift her understanding of what it means to be a student, an educator, and a community member. Community-based learning creates space for reciprocity and mutuality within education, and validates the very important truth that the various communities surrounding us are essential sites of knowledge! Outside of EIA work, she is probably talking about whatever’s happening in the astrological realm, eating a bagel on her porch and hanging out with her neighbor’s cat!

Introducing the Second EIA in our new series “Meet the EIAs” MAGGIE! (Pronouns: she/hers). Maggie is a senior Diplomacy and World Affairs major. This semester she is facilitating the UEP course 247 Urban Agriculture and Sustainable Landscaping Practicum.

Since her first year at Oxy, she has been working with the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute on projects ranging from working with farmer's markets to mapping campus irrigation systems. After graduating from Oxy, she hopes to earn a degree in environmental planning or landscape architecture so she can build on her interests at the intersection of environmental justice and design! When she’s not being an EIA, you can find her with her friends or working on the new mural that will be going up in the Lavender Lounge!

Say hello to Maggie if you see her! And look out for our next EIA next week.

Introducing the first EIA in our new series “Meet the EIAs” NATALIA! (Pronouns: she/they). Natalia is a senior Critical Theory and Social Justice major. She is currently facilitating the course "Women and Community Health" with THE Sharla Fett

Are you looking for alternative ways to engage with the Center for Community Based Learning (CCBL)? Do you sometimes wonder what’s happening in the office? If so, we’ve got great news for you. The CCBL has an INSTAGRAM. This platform will be primarily run by student staff and it will be the place to find out about CCBL sponsored events as well as to meet the Education In Action (EIA) facilitators. Follow us !!

Please join Brenda Perez, a First generation Indigenous Mexican, and American/ Chicana born and raised in Highland Park, in a presentation of her current research regarding murals as medicine and essential to survivance in Indigenous communities and the psychological trauma of whitewashing and gentrification as an act of colonialism. This event is happening Today at 7pm!

Wednesday | November 20, 2019
7PM
Weingart 117
1600 Campus Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90041

Please email the CCBL at [email protected] for questions.

Oxy community, partners, and friends are all welcome!

Please join the CCBL in a panel discussion on Native American imprisonment. The panel will illuminate the injustices of imprisonment in the Indigenous context, and conversely, how Native peoples have navigated these impositions for their futurities. The title “Carceral Liberation?” refers to the paradox that many Indigenous people are introduced to Native cultural practices, such as ceremonies, powwows, language acquisition and beadwork classes, while in prison.

Following the panel, an art show featuring the work and words of Indigenous artists and people who are incarcerated will open on October 12 from 7-10pm at Avenue 50 Studio.

Thursday | October 10, 2019
6pm-8pm
Choi Auditorium, Occidental College
1600 Campus Rd., Los Angeles, 90041

Oxy community, partners, and friends are all welcome!