CURTO

Our LAST Civics in Action session is here!✨

Come learn how getting involved locally can restore trust, build connection and make your voice count with MU Alum, Ben Rangel from Bridge the City.

📍November 20 • 4 - 5:30 • AMU 137

The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization that works to protect and expand voting rights, ensuring everyone is represented in our democracy. The LWV empowers voters as well as defends democracy through advocacy, education, and litigation, at the local, state, and national levels.

“LWV supports grassroots efforts to empower voters across the country. From expanding voter education to passing pro-voter laws, we raise our voices and use our influence to strengthen the freedom to vote and build a fairer democracy.”

In honor of National Voter Education Week, CURTO wishes to highlight several organizations leading the charge in civic engagement and voter education.

The first organization we wish to spotlight is Souls to the Polls Wisconsin.

Souls to the Polls Wisconsin is a non-profit, non-partisan voter education and advocacy organization.

✨Check out their page

Soup with Substance is bringing the flavor by centering latinx stories and resources to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.

Please join us tomorrow, Wednesday Oct 1st for this powerful conversation. 🌺

📅: Oct 1st
📍: AMU Lunda Room
⏰: 12:00 - 12:50 pm

BLEST Hub’s 2025 State of the Ecosystem Report highlights both the work of the initiative over the year and key findings across various projects, highlighting young people’s voices, opportunities for collaboration and synergy, and exciting developments across the region.

Learn more here or via CURTOs website:
https://www.marquette.edu/urban-research-
teaching-outreach/documents/blesthub-state-of-the-ecosystem-2025_final.pdf

Congratulations from the CURTO team to our undergraduate and graduate students for finishing a new chapter in their lives! We cannot wait to see all that you accomplish.

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Get to know one of CURTO's proud partnerships: The Milwaukee County Human Rights Commission. Our very own Dr. Robert S. Smith chairs the commission. The group consists of community leaders and residents, employees, and visitors to make Milwaukee more equitable by advising the county government of the proper procedures for preserving the equal rights of persons as guaranteed by the law. Visit https://county.milwaukee.gov/EN/Human-Rights-Commission to find out more about The Milwaukee County Human Rights Commission.

Meet Dr. Robert Smith! He is CURTO's director and a Marquette professor. His research and teaching interests include African American history, civil rights history, and exploring the intersections of race and law. Rob is the author of Black Liberation from Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter in the Debating American History Series, and Race, Labor & Civil Rights: Griggs v. Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity. Rob also serves on the Board of Curators for the Wisconsin Historical Society, is the Resident Historian for America’s Black Holocaust Museum, and is Chair of the Milwaukee County Human Rights Commission.

Get to know one of CURTO's proud partnerships: Public Allies. This nonprofit organization is "committed to changing the face and practice of leadership by recruiting and training talented emerging leaders, with a passion for social impact, to create meaningful change in our community." To find out more, visit https://publicallies.org/wisconsin/.