Campus Diversity & Inclusion

URSA invites all University Community members to the U of R Makerspace Thursday, May 11 from 4–6 p.m. for a celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month.

The Makerspace, located in Room 112 at the Armacost Library Building, is an open space to participate in experiential learning using immersive technologies. For this event, you can make laser cut leis, paint flags of Asian and Pacific Island nations, learn hula, and see student-created animatronic presentations.

For questions, email [email protected].

Join us this Friday, March 24 in Orton Center to hear from WGS and REST students discuss their senior capstones around reproductive justice, POC experiences, q***r theory and more!

Our keynote speaker this year is Romarilyn Ralston. She identifies as a Black feminist abolitionist with incarceration experience. She earned a Bachelor degree with honors in Gender and Feminist Studies from Pitzer College and a Master degree in Liberal Arts from Washington University in St. Louis after 23 years of incarceration. She was the program director of Project Rebound at California State Fullerton and chaired the CSU Project Rebound Consortium Policy & Advocacy Committee. She is a long-time organizer with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and serves on the leadership committee. Romarilyn sits on several national boards, including the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison, and Freedom Reads. In 2022 she received a full pardon from Governor Gavin Newsom.

Dr. Ray Briggs performance.

Dr. Ray Briggs performing at the University of Redlands Memorial Chapel.

Next week our Diversity in Action Resident will be engaging with students all over campus. Join us Monday at 5 pm in Hunsaker to meet Dr. Ray Briggs!

Learn more about Dr. Briggs at https://www.redlands.edu/bulldog-blog/2023/february-2023/dr.-ray-briggs-is-the-2023-diversity-in-action-resident-at-the-university-of-redlands/

Today, many across the world celebrate Holi. The “festival of colors “ symbolizes the victory of good over evil and is a day to play, laugh, forget and forgive. Today we celebrate Spring, love, hope and joy!

Join us next Wednesday, March 15 on the Quad at 4pm to celebrate with Holi colors on campus!

Happy Monday! This a special reminder that the deadline to R.S.V.P. to the Students of Color Recognition Ceremony is this Friday.

Count down: R.S.V.P. to this year's Lavender Recognition Ceremony by Friday, March 10. Go to www.redlands.edu/lavender23 for registration details.

Commencement is approaching fast! The R.S.V.P. deadline for the First Generation Recognition Ceremony is Friday, March 10. For registration details, go to www.redlands.edu/firstgen23.

Can you believe it?

Spring break and it's snowing on campus!

“Thank You to everyone who came and supported the Va**na Monologues, this continuous effort to end violence against all women (transgender cisgender), non-binary people, and those with fluid identities.” Isela Benavides ‘24, intern for Women’s And Gender Justice Center & DUDES

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to hear from Rickerby Hinds, a professor of playwriting at University of California, Riverside, founding director of Riverside Studios, and one of the pioneers of hip-hop theater.

The event will feature a reading of the play “Blackbox,” Hinds’ magical hip-hop retelling of abolitionist Henry Box Brown’s escape to freedom. The story will be told by two actors who magically appear on stage and explore moments in the life of Henry as he becomes a better magician. Henry improves to the point that he finally disappears from his life of enslavement and reappears as a free man.

Register in the link below.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/redlands-forum-blackbox-an-epic-story-told-with-poetry-and-magic-tickets-548092839437?aff=ebdssbdestsearch