[Uopatos] LSG Agenda

[Nora Fandino Unzaga]

LSG compañer at s,
After a minor change and a couple additions later, the agenda for Wednesday's meeting is set. Again, Doneka Scott will be joining us the first half hour!

While I cannot attend tonight's event, I hope to see some of you tomorrow.

Nora



1.      Monday panel (6-7:30 PM, EMU Ballroom): "A Post-Inauguration Roundtable on the Changing Landscape of Immigration." More information is available here<https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/post-inauguration_roundtable_changing_immigration_rules?utm_campaign=Plans%20tomorrow#.WI6cuBCbfaw>. A panel of experts speaking to the changes underway at the national level on immigration and refugee policy and how they may impact students and faculty at the UO. Sponsored by the Office of International Affairs and several other units, including Ethnic Studies. Featuring:

*Maria Blanco, Executive Director, Undocumented Legal Services Center, UC Davis
*Betsy Boyd, UO Associate Vice President of Federal Affairs
*Rosa Chavez-Jacuinde Associate Director, UO Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence
*Jennifer Doreen UO International Employment Specialist


2.      Tuesday teach-in (9-10 AM, EMU Redwood Auditorium 214) featuring Maria Blanco, "Undocumented Students in the Age of Trump: What Every Campus Needs to Know."

Description: The new administration promises dramatic changes to the legal and political status and conditions facing undocumented students. What do faculty, staff and students need to know to navigate this new environment? What steps can campuses take to proactively protect their students? What role might Dreamers play in challenging this new regime?

This teach-in features, María Blanco<https://law.ucdavis.edu/faculty/blanco/>, Executive Director of the Undocumented Student Legal Services Center<http://undoc.universityofcalifornia.edu./>, which operates out of UC Davis School of Law to provide immigration-related legal services for undocumented students at the six University of California campuses without law schools. Launched in November 2014, the Center is a pilot project of the University of California Office of the President and works in collaboration with the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic.

A graduate of UC Berkeley, Blanco has more than 20 years' experience as a litigator and advocate for immigrant rights, women's rights, and social justice. She most recently served as Vice President of Civic Engagement at the California Community Foundation and led its immigrant integration initiatives.  Blanco has also served as Executive Director of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute at UC Berkeley School of Law, as Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, as an Equal Rights Advocates attorney, as associate director and associate professor at Golden Gate University School of Law, and as National Senior Counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

This is the third in a series of Imagining Freedom Teach-Ins organized by the Department of Ethnic Studies in partnership with other campus units focused on creating new political possibilities in a moment of crisis and retrenchment. RSVP to d

Warm thanks,

Dan


Daniel Martinez HoSang
Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Political Science
Department Head, Ethnic Studies
University of Oregon
dhosang at uoregon.edu<mailto:dhosang at uoregon.edu>









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