For those who were not able to attend our Common Book event on Tuesday night, “The Stigma We Carry”, a recording can be found at this link: https://mediasite.hs.washington.edu/Mediasite/Play/055ed59549c04c57a015f7b0b6a37dbd1d

For those who came, we’d love your feedback!  Please respond to this email address with your reflections.  The event was sponsored by What’s Next Washington, a non-profit organization of formerly incarcerated individuals and allies working toward better reintegration into society after release.

The GO-MAP GSA application is now live and accepting applications.

GO-MAP is seeking a GSA to be a member of a highly collaborative team and serve a primary role in the overall coordination and implementation of programs and events that support outreach, recruitment, retention, and professional development initiatives focused on serving graduate students of color at the University of Washington. Emphasis will be placed on applicants with demonstrated experience and a commitment to social justice, equity, and inclusion efforts. The application can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/yxklj9ok

The application deadline is, May 5th at 11:59 PM.

This announcement is for several summer internship opportunities at Compass Housing Alliance.

• Client Services Summer Intern
• Nyer Summer Intern
• Renton Summer Intern

The attached flyer lists more detailed information about the positions.

Please feel free to contact Human Resources if you have any questions by phone at 206-474-1100 or email at hrinfo@compasshousingalliance.org.

Compass Internships 4-18-2019

Hey wonderful people!

Join us for a night of music, dance, food, and games. All of the proceeds from this event will go towards Acción Solidaria, a Venezuelan organization providing essential food and medicines for Venezuelan people.
We really appreciate your support, come celebrate and learn about the beauty of Venezuelan culture ♥ We’ll see you on April 30th!
To learn more about Acción Solidaria, or about what’s happening in Venezuela, please visit http://www.action4help.com/ and visit us on Facebook!
RSVP Here: https://forms.gle/p2pKF4LuHvExoPNy9
$7 Pre-sale
$10 at the door
Venmo (@marirami) or cash accepted

Please join us for the second annual UW Health Equity Conference on May 7th from 6:00-8:30pm, presented by the Housestaff Quality and Safety Committee and the Network for Underrepresented Residents and Fellows. The conference will feature a keynote by Dr. Leo Morales, Chief Diversity Officer of the UW School of Medicine, and sessions working with faculty, trainees, and students from a wide range of disciplines on specific healthcare equity issues including housing status, race, immigration status, and gender identity. This is a great opportunity to learn more about these issues, hear about diverse perspectives, and help design solutions!

NURF-HQSC Health Equity Conference

May 7th, 2019 from 6:00-8:30pm

Harborview R&T 117

300 9th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104

Please RSVP here

Hi,

Looking for a volunteer opportunity right here on campus?

The University of Washington Husky Football team is hosting a Be The Match registry event on Wednesday, May 8, in Red Square! Volunteer opportunities are available from 2-4:30 p.m.

To sign up as a volunteer, please visit the Be The Match Volunteer website at:

https://www.bethematchvolunteer.org/opportunity/a0C1Y00001TLJEB

For additional information, please contact the Be The Match local community engagement representative, Joseph Wilson, at Joseph.Wilson@nmdp.org.

Go Team UWCFD!

Originally scheduled for February 12^th, but cancelled due to the suspension of campus operations, this event is rescheduled for Tuesday, May 14th, 2019. The time, place, and format will be exactly as before, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.  So that we may plan a more enjoyable experience for all, please RSVP by May 8^th using the Eventbrite link:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/impact-science-series-unleashing-the-power-of-prevention-tickets-54381030125

The UW School of Social Work’s pursuit of solution-focused Impact Science includes opportunities to bring members of our science and practice/policy communities together. By sharing perspectives regarding issues salient to the profession, we foster spaces for cross-fertilization. We open with a focus on some of the national Social Work Grand Challenges Initiative topics.

Guest Speakers:

Eric O. Agyemang, MSW CLI Program Manager Puget Sound Sage

J. David Hawkins, PhD Emeritus Professor of Prevention School of Social Work

Liz Wilhelm, MS, CPP Drug Free Communities Coordinator Prevention WINS Coalition

Social Work Building, Room 305

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

4:30—6:30 pm

4:30—5:15: Meet and Greet, with refreshments

5:15—6:00: Program

6:00—6:30: Community Conversation

Please follow the link to RSVP, as refreshments and light hors d’oeuvres will be served: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/impact-science-series-unleashing-the-power-of-prevention-tickets-54381030125

To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least 10 days in advance at 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or email dso@uw.edu.

Originally scheduled for February 12^th, but cancelled due to the suspension of campus operations, this event is rescheduled for Tuesday, May 14th, 2019. The time, place, and format will be exactly as before, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.  So that we may plan a more enjoyable experience for all, please RSVP by May 8^th using the Eventbrite link:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/impact-science-series-unleashing-the-power-of-prevention-tickets-54381030125

Hey wonderful people!

Join us for a night of music, dance, food, and games. All of the proceeds from this event will go towards Acción Solidaria, a Venezuelan organization providing essential food and medicines for Venezuelan people.
We really appreciate your support, come celebrate and learn about the beauty of Venezuelan culture ♥ We’ll see you on April 30th!
To learn more about Acción Solidaria, or about what’s happening in Venezuela, please visit http://www.action4help.com/ and visit us on Facebook!
RSVP Here: https://forms.gle/p2pKF4LuHvExoPNy9
$7 Pre-sale
$10 at the door
Venmo (@marirami) or cash accepted

It’s officially Fulbright season! The application is now open and results from last year’s application are coming in. This Thursday you have the chance to learn more about what you can do during a Fulbright year abroad and meet some of UW’s 26 Fulbright semi-finalists.  This year’s semi-finalists applied to research, study or teach abroad in over 20 countries!

April 25 at 4:00 p.m. in  Mary Gates Hall 171
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Info Session
Meet & Greet at 5:00 p.m.

Let us know you plan to attend!

Come to learn about the program stay to network and celebrate this year’s semi-finalists.

From Palestine to Mexico, All the Walls Have Got to Go! 
(Monday, May 20, 2019) 7 PM – 9 PM @ Southside Commons
3518 S Edmunds St, Seattle, Washington 98118

These days, the headlines are filled with Trump’s proposal for a border wall, news about brutal family separation policies and baby jails at the border, police murdering Black people in the US, Islamophobic attacks, accusations that Congresswoman Omar is “anti-semitic” because of her criticism of US foreign policy in Israel, and anti-boycott legislation at the federal and state levels. How are all these things connected? What does it mean to build a powerful movement for change that connects these issues and wins change that actually reduces the harms of systems of policing, imprisonment, border enforcement, and colonial dispossession? Join us for a conversation between Maru Mora Villalpando and Nada Elia

• Maru is the community organizer at the forefront of work aiming to close the Northwest Detention Center. She has been targeted by the Trump administration for deportation based on her activism and works to build a radical, visionary, border and prison abolitionist migrant justice grassroots movement in our region and nationally. Nada Elia is a diaspora Palestinian writer, organizer, and teacher who was one of the first activists to work to expose how US law enforcement trains with the Israeli military and to build coalitional feminist work to oppose it. Maru and Nada will be talking about the overlapping and interconnected law enforcement technologies being used to target migrants to the US, US communities of color, and Palestinians, and exploring how we build internationalist anti-law enforcement and anti-military resistance. This event aims to strengthen all our imaginations and strategies for building safety through solidarity, not law enforcement.

– Image by Catherina Horan, on Instagram at @fernfemmeart.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

• Southside commons is wheelchair accessible and has two parking spots for people with disabilities.
• Scent-free soaps will be provided in the bathrooms and we are currently working to find out what is usually used in the space and to what degree it leaves chemicals and fragrances in the space.
• Gender neutral bathrooms are available.
• The light rail to the Mount Baker stop, and several busses, stop nearby.
• If you have any questions about accessibility please email ashleen.obrien@gmail.com.

SARVA, WAC, D-Center and SDC Present: Open Mic Night
(Tuesday, April 30, 2019) 5-87PM @ HUB 340

• Join this safe space and hear stories from disabled survivors of assault and domestic violence.

Light refreshments will be provided! (Vegan/gluten free options available!)

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

• CART Captioning will be provided.

This is a scent free space! Please refrain from using scented products if you plan on attending.

A Talk About Border Imperialism and more
(Tuesday, April 23) 5 – 6 PM @ Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center 
3931 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98105

• Join us for a conversation about border imperialism and more. Leading this discussion will be the founding members of Shot of Truth Podcast.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

• The Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center is near landmarks such as Alder Hall and Lander Hall.
• For a map, search HUB on the campus maps: www.washington.edu/maps
• The ECC’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible. There is an elevator in the building.
• There are universal, all-gender bathrooms in the building, as well as gender binary bathrooms with multiple stalls.
• The ECC is not kept scent-free, but we ask that you do not wear scented/fragranced products (e.g. perfume, hair products) or essential oils to/in the event in order to make the space accessible to those with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity.

University District Metro Bus Routes can be found here: metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/neighborhoods/university_district.html

LAVISH QTPOC Art Showcase
(Tuesday, May 21, 2019) 6:30 PM – 9 PM @ Ethnic Cultural Theater
3931 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98105

• Lavish is a multi-arts showcase opportunity centering Queer and Trans People of Color (QTPoC). We will provide a platform for UW students to receive mentorship (by way of building a sustained relationship with a teaching artist) and community building among QTPoCs and artists on campus and in the greater Seattle community.
• There are many ways to participate in the showcase. Opportunities include (but are not limited to): emcees/MC, deejays/DJ, performance artists, fine artists, spoken word, poetry, musicians, dramaturge, stage managers, community organizers, and more.
• The showcase is student-driven and its final form will be created organically among the participating artists. Lavish centers artists who identify as QTPoC. White allies/accomplices are also welcome to participate. Artists of any experience level are enthusiastically invited to participate in this low stakes/high support experience.

Please consider filling out the following form if you are interested in participating at Lavish: https://forms.gle/dq7TMqV8YQAfvtu2A
We will host an Informational Session on May 3, 2019, 3:00PM at the Q Center (HUB 315). Note: Prospective performers may submit their application using this form or in person at the informational session.
Questions? Please contact Juan Franco or Jaimée Marsh @ the Q Center: qcenter@uw.edu or 206-897-1430.
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Kitchen Sessions with Imani Sims and CD Forum
(Friday, April 26, 2019) 7 PM – 9 PM @ Seattle Art Museum
1300 1st Ave, Seattle, Washington 98101

• In celebration of “Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer,” SAM has partnered with poet and educator Imani Sims and The Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas for an evening that explores themes of the exhibition. Entry to the exhibition is included with ticket purchase. bit.ly/SAMKitchenSessions

Kitchen Sessions are an opportunity to celebrate Black femme and non-binary identified artists as they reflect on and discuss with an intergenerational audience.

The Kitchen seems like the place where nourishment is found. Not only food but also valuable lessons. Little girls go from childhood to the kitchen. At some point, we graduate into womanhood. What is the rite of passage that allows you to enter the sacred space of the kitchen?

It functions as an epicenter, a doorway into a space where it is safe to examine the crooked room. It is safe to talk about the long list of things we experience as Black women. As our hands conjure nourishment, our mouths begin to form spells and we reshape our reality for a moment.

Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancy Prevention in American Indian Communities: A New Randomized Controlled Trial of a Preconceptual Approach

with Drs. Michelle Sarche and Jessica Hanson

Monday, May 13^th, 2019, 12PM-1PM PDT

This presentation will explain the importance of a preconceptual approach to alcohol-exposed pregnancy prevention, detailing efforts to prevent alcohol-exposed pregnancy in American Indian communities in particular. It will illustrate how these efforts have informed the design and implementation of a new randomized controlled trial of Native-Changing High-risk Alcohol Use and Increasing Contraception Effectiveness Study (Native CHOICES) (an adaptation of CHOICES) with one Northern Plains American Indian community.

This webinar is free but registration is required.

Please register here.

2019 LAVENDER GRADUATION ~ Hosted by Aleksa Manila
Tuesday, June 11th
6:00 – 8:30 PM
wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House

Graduates must register at https://tinyurl.com/lavgraddawgs2019 by June 5th.

The Who, What, When, Where, Why & How:

Who: Lavender Graduation is open to any student eligible, at any level (undergraduate or graduate/professional) for graduation in the 2018-2019 (including fall 2019) academic year. Guests do not have to be graduating or be of a certain sexual or gender orientation/identity/expression to participate or attend this year-end celebration. Everyone is welcome!!!

What: The best party on the UW Campus, of course.

When: TUESDAY, June 11th, from 6-8:30 PM.  Graduates please arrive by NO LATER than 5:15 PM.

Where: wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House (4249 Whitman Court) on the University of Washington campus.

Why: The Q Center and QSC host Lavender Graduation as a time for the UW queer, two-spirit, trans, GNC, LGBTQIA+, and Allied communities to come together and celebrate our multiple identities, our accomplishments, and sheer AWESOMENESS.

How: IF YOU ARE GRADUATING, please register at https://tinyurl.com/lavgraduw2019 by June 5th.

As for attire, participants and guests can wear whatever they want. If you want to dress up, or down, go for it. If you wish to wear cultural regalia, please do. You want to be comfy, have at it. This is your night!

For more information about the event, contact qcenter@uw.edu or call (206) 897-1430.

To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 (voice), 206-543-6452 (TTY), 206-685-7264 (fax), or dso@uw.edu preferably 10 days in advance.

Greetings MSW students!

Would you like to provide writing support to other students at the UW School of Social Work?

We are hiring two new writing tutors to join the social work writing team year.  If interested, please carefully review the Writing Consultant Position Announcement for details and submit an online application by May 3, 2019.

Applicants are encouraged to attend an info session with the current writing tutors to learn more about our center’s practice and to ask questions about the role. Please email the writing team at sswwrite@uw.edu for the dates and times of the info sessions.

Thanks for your time and consideration!

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