Báyò Akómoláfé Community Gathering

Báyò Akómoláfé will be joining us at CASA Pitzer for a community gathering. He is an author, celebrated speaker, teacher, and trans-public intellectual. Join us for a community meal and informal discussion of his work on fugitivity and liberation.

Community-based, Participatory Action Research: What is it and how do I do it?

Pitzer’s values of social justice, intercultural understanding and community engagement can come to life through intentional uses of research methodologies that are community-led and participatory, engaging faculty, students, and local community members in meaningful collaborations for change on any number of topics.

Come learn about this approach and how to enact it in your own research or facilitate it with your students.

Tessa Hicks Peterson is associate professor of Urban Studies and Pitzer’s faculty director of CASA, a community-based rsearch program. For over 25 years, Tessa’s scholar activism h as centered on bringing diverse groups together for collaborative projects that build community and foster personal and systemic change.

Community Panel: Prejudice, Police Brutality and Abolition

A panel with Dawn Oliver-Ramsey, Ivette Xochiyotl, Mary Valdemar, Tamara Martin, and Sandra Serrano.

Dawn Oliver-Ramsey(she/her/Duchess), is a homegrown community organizer and activist from Kansas City, MO. Her work is unapologetically focused on Black liberation, abloshing systems and institutions of harm, and centering the leadership of those close to the problem(s).

Mary Valdemar has been advocating in the Inland region for over 20 years. Her passion for advocacy started as a struggling student, single mother, Chicana feminist and environmental adovcate at SBVC & has continued throughout her over 15 year career thre.

Ivette Xochiyotl is the Project Manager at La Raza Data Base and a Civil, Human, and Indigenous Rights Advocate.

Tamara Martin is the Path 2 SEED, Employment Project Manager at Starting Over, Inc. (SOI) which is an organization providing resources to those who are incarcerated and formerly incarcerated folks.

Sandra Serrano is a directly-impacted family member and part of the Justice for Ernie movement. She is an abolitionist grassroots justice organizer.

Join us at CASA Pitzer:

200 S. Euclid Ave.
Suite B
Ontario, CA 91762

Zoom option available: https://pitzer.zoom.us/j/87408342893

CASA Speaker Series: Trauma-Informed and Healing Centered Self-Awareness

Join us for our CASA Pitzer Spring Speaker series on Tuesday February 20^th at 4pm! The Zoom link is available here: https://pitzer.zoom.us/j/87408342893