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/lavgraduw2019  by June 5th. 

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

Who: 2019 LAVENDER GRADUATION ~ Hosted by Aleksa Manila. Your 2019 keynote is local Poet & Educator J Mase III. J Mase III is based in Seattle by way of Philly.\ He is the author of “If I Should Die Under the Knife, Tell my Kidney I was the Fiercest Poet Around”, as well as “And Then I Got Fired: One Transqueer’s Reflections on Grief, Unemployment, and Inappropriate Jokes about Death.” As an educator, J Mase has worked with thousands of community members in the US, the UK, and Canada on the needs of LGBTQIA+ youth and adults in spaces such as K-12 schools, universities, faith communities, and restricted care facilities among others. Check him out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and at https://jmaseiii.com/

Graduates must register at https://tinyurl.com/lavgraduw2019  or

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jms13/370418 by June 5th.

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

When: TUESDAY, June11th, 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://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jms13/370418 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.

You are cordially invited to view the student work from UW College of Education’s Accelerated Certificated Teachers (U-ACT) and students in the Special Education Program (SPED). In the course EDTEP 555 Understanding Tribal Perspectives: Implications for Teaching and Learning, students built lessons and plans using pedagogy from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction’s (OSPI) Office of Native Education (ONE) Since Time Immemorial Tribal Sovereignty Curriculum, and tribal specific resources and established community engagement plans.

Tuesday June 4th

5:00-8:00pm 

wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House    

UW Seattle Campus

Please join us to hear Dr. Anthony Craig (Yakama) with his wife, Chelsea (Tulalip) and their family keynote their experiential stories of education and practices with tribal communities.

Also hear a panel of guests with the ONE Director, Latifah Phillips (Tohono O’odham), answer questions and discuss Native initiatives in WA State and across the U.S.

Please find attached the Showcase Invitation flyer to forward, print, post, and hand out to colleagues, family, and friends! This event has been an energetic and informative fun space with lots of feedback, information, and wisdom for all. We are looking forward to seeing and sharing knowledge with our students’ work as Native nations and communities become part of everyday awareness in our school’s teaching and learning!

2019 Showcase Invitation-UACT SPED

I am a former UW MSW Program student (Class of ’16)! I work at a small non-profit, Cancer Pathways (formerly Gilda’s Club Seattle), and we have a summer job opening that would be perfect for a social work student (can be BSW or MSW!). The position is a Head Camp Counselor at our summer camp for kids impacted by cancer. I have attached the job description.

Head Camp Counselor

Anyone interested can contact me at maddie@cancerpathways.org

The Communication Leadership graduate program is offering some exciting classes in Summer 2019, and we are happy to open up available spaces to other UW graduate students. The classes below all currently have availability. Please note that Comm Lead is a fee-based program, so tuition and fees are paid per credit directly to UW Professional & Continuing Education and are not covered by any ASE or other tuition waiver. Summer 2019 tuition is $729 per credit.  Note from Lin – EDP students will pay their usual per credit fee (so no extra) for these credits and can use up to 3 credits out-of-dept toward their elective requirement (and may request up to 3 more out-of-dept credits by emailing Lin AFTER you’ve registered.)

Please contact Heather Werckle at commlead@uw.edu for add codes if you would like to register for one of these classes.

COMMLD 535: Foundations of Audio Storytelling

(Partnow) 5 Credits, Intensive, Monday-Friday, 6/24-6/28 | 9:00am-5:00pm | SAV 132

Whether gathered around a radio in a living room or walking plugged in with headphones, the medium of audio storytelling has always offered the opportunity to build mindset-shifting community around content. This course traces the evolution of audio storytelling from radio to podcasting that links to communities for various purposes: to educate, to entertain, and to inspire action — and the new golden age of podcasting that we find ourselves in means that audio storytelling has the potential for broad reach and powerful impact. Consideration is given to the core characteristics of strong storytelling, observed through an auditory filter. Class materials are twinned with a selection of cross-sector guest speakers who bring their own craft perspective. Students will experiment with designing their own short audio pieces.

COMMLD 530 B: Intensive Video Storytelling: Conceptualizing, Shooting, and Editing

(Keller) 3 Credits, Intensive, Wednesday-Sunday, 8/7-8/11, 9:00am-5:00pm | CMU 126

Media creation is a multi-step effort, with thoughtful decision-making involved throughout the process. How do the choices you make in the telling and delivery of your story affect the reception of your message? This course is aimed at expanding thought about how online media is affecting storytelling. Additionally, students will gain hands-on practice in producing online video stories. The skills-based aspect of this course is designed to familiarize students with the technologies associated with storytelling. Specifically how to refine, shoot, edit, and distribute their online video.

COMMLD 530 A: Storytelling and Communication for Mission-Driven Organizations

(Melograna) 5 Credits, Full Term, Saturdays 6/29, 7/13, 7/20, 7/27, and 8/10 | 9:00am-5:00pm | SAV 130

Nonprofits, NGOs, campaigns and social enterprises are driven by their desire to make the world a better place. As their storytellers, our job is to make sure their messages reach the right audiences and recruit those audiences to the cause. Keeping in mind that mission-driven organizations will often work on complex issues involving vulnerable populations, our job is to pursue this work within an ethical framework that centers the concerns and desires of the people whom our clients serve. Upon completing the course, students will be able to work with mission-driven organizations as their primary storytellers.

COMMLD 543: Leadership Approaches to Equity Initiatives in Organizations

(Ross) 5 Credits, Full Term, Wednesdays 6/26-8/21 | 6:00-9:50pm | DEN 258

This course challenges and supports students to develop deeper self-awareness, hone stronger skills for learning across difference, and prepare themselves as organizational change-makers for diversity, equity, and inclusion. For better or worse, organizational change initiatives impact individuals, groups, organizations, and ultimately societies. Thus, courageous leaders throughout organizations must learn how to improve their relevant knowledge, skills, and awareness iteratively, in order to contribute effectively to genuine change-making. The course is designed to meet students where they are and coach them toward significant growth in self-awareness, skills, and understanding. Students learn collaboratively together in order to explore interconnections among the dimensions of our intersectional identities. Those who complete this course gain confidence in their ability to learn about uncomfortable topics and expand their understanding of the roles of individuals, groups, organizations, and societal structures in making real system change.

To all students interested in health equity and social justice:

·               Do you see things in the communities you work with and/or are a part of that you wish were different?

·               Do you want to help change the systems that produce health disparities?

·               Are you ready to take action?

Join experienced Sound Alliance community organizers and students from across the Health Sciences this fall in UCONJ 624. We will develop your skills in advocacy and community organizing for health equity. Participate in different campaigns that work upstream to address the social determinants of health.

·               Learn the fundamentals of advocacy, organizing, and their ability to impact health.

·               Apply skills, gain confidence, & collaborate around a community-driven goal.

·               Work with local leaders to engage in community driven listening campaigns.

·               Address the social & structural injustices that contribute to & perpetuate health disparities.

Course details: 

·               UCONJ 624

·               Fall quarter 2019

·               Mondays 5:30-7:20pm

·               Classroom: TBD

Contact Leonora Clarke at clarkel@uw.ed for an add code or with questions! 

MCMH student assistant information

See link below for job posting:

https://app.joinhandshake.com/jobs/2759057

Please join the Ethnic Cultural Center  in welcoming  Kristin McGowan, PH.D Student and Instructor, and Teddy McGlynn-Wright, Instructor, for a double faculty spotlight! This will be an engaging conversation, and opportunity for students to learn more about their journey and path to Social Work and beyond! Food will be provided.

Thursday May 30, 2019 at 6:00 pm in the ECC Unity Suite at the ECC

The Graduate Enrollment Management Services (GEMS) Office in the Graduate School is hiring an hourly student assistant (not an assistantship), to begin working this Summer.

Please see attached job description

Student Worker Job Description 2019

DEATH

Sometimes our only choices are how we face it, and how our community can support us.

FREE PUBLIC SCREENING and

AUDIENCE CONVERSATION

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Seattle, WA

7 P.M. Kane Hall, University of Washington

Tickets: https://endgame.brownpapertickets.com

Bainbridge Island, WA

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

6:30 P.M. BIMA Auditorium, Bainbridge Island

Tickets: https://bpt.me/4222821

PANELISTS

Elizabeth Coplan, Founder and Author, Grief Dialogues
Kari Hilwig, MSW, Virginia Mason Medical Center
Taryn Lindhorst, PhD, LCSW, University of Washington
Maya Scott, MSW, LSWAIC, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Rashmi K. Sharma, MD, MHS, University of Washington
Sharon Stanley, PhD, Founder of Somatic Transformation (May 29th)
Shoshana Ungerleider, MD, Producer and Founder, End Well (May 28th)
Karen Vargas, Living Life Leadership

SPONSORS

Grief Dialogues
UW Center for Integrative Oncology and
Palliative Care Social Work
Ernest Becker Foundation
People’s Memorial Association
End Well Foundation
Providence Hospice of Seattle
Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest
Speaking of Dying
Island Volunteer Caregivers
Grief Coach
Recompose

To all students interested in health equity and social justice:

•                Do you see things in the communities you work with and/or are a part of that you wish were different?
•                Do you want to help change the systems that produce health disparities?
•               Are you ready to take action?

Join experienced Sound Alliance community organizers and students from across the Health Sciences this fall in UCONJ 624. We will develop your skills in advocacy and community organizing for health equity. Participate in different campaigns that work upstream to address the social determinants of health.

•                Learn the fundamentals of advocacy, organizing, and their ability to impact health.
•                Apply skills, gain confidence, & collaborate around a community-driven goal.
•                Work with local leaders to engage in community driven listening campaigns.
•                Address the social & structural injustices that contribute to & perpetuate health disparities.

Course details:

•                UCONJ 624
•                Fall quarter 2019
•                Mondays 5:30-7:20pm
•                Classroom: TBD

Contact Leonora Clarke at clarkel@uw.ed for an add code or with questions! 

Health Equity Community Organizing Fall 2019

A new section of JSIS 535: Technology, Society and the Future has recently opened up more spaces for this summer a-term course. This course explores the intersection of policy, technology and society. Technology is rapidly changing the way that humans interact with one another, markets are formed, and information is stored, shared and utilized. While technology has held and does hold great promise for being a force for both economic and social change, it also has the potential to be used in ways that threaten civil liberties, national security and data sovereignty. Private sector and civil society actors, government and military leaders, and regulators must work together to understand how new and emerging technologies will drive change across a wide range of sectors, and they must develop policies to ensure that technology is used to help improve and enrich the lives of those across the socioeconomic spectrum.

Summer A-term

JSIS 535: Technology, Society and the Future (2cr)

Taught by James Bernard

SLN 14628

On Thursday, June 6 we’re bringing author and activist Jodie Patterson to the Impact Hub. Please forward this to others in our communities!. Patterson will be sharing about her experience raising her transgender son. She will be interviewed by KUOW journalist Jeannie Yandle and then she and Jeannie will be in-conversation with transgender activist Spencer Bergstedt. Bios below. Here’s the Eventbrite with all the details.

WHAT: Race, Gender and Bold Parenting: Jodie Patterson on Raising Her Transgender Son

WHERE: The Impact Hub, Pioneer Square

WHEN: Thurs, June 6, doors at 6:00 PM

BIOS:

Jodie Patterson is an activist, entrepreneur, and writer. Her activism on behalf of the LGBTQAI community, inspired by her transgender son, has won her accolades from Hillary Clinton and Chirlane McCray, the First Lady of New York City. Patterson was named the “#1 Most Influential Mom 2018” by Family Circle and has been covered in a variety of publications, including O: The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, Essence, Cosmopolitan, Vogue Japan and The Advocate.

Spencer Bergstedt, J.D. is a consultant and trainer on Transgender medical, social, and workplace issues. He is an author,  a former lawyer and an activist. He transitioned over 20 years ago when conversations about LGBT identity were very different than today.

Jeannie Yandel has produced nearly every show out of KUOW, including The Conversation and The Record. She’s won awards for her reporting and her interviewing. Now she makes new shows as an editor with KUOW’s podcast team, and she co-hosts the podcast Battle Tactics For Your Sexist Workplace.

Your U-Pass deactivates on 6/14 if you are not enrolled in summer classes or employed with the school over the summer. That means getting around will be a little bit harder. Have no fear! Come to the University Bookstore Cafe on June 6th to enroll in ORCA LIFT. ORCA LIFT is a discounted bus fare program for individuals age 19-64. Rides are only $1.50 instead of $2.75.

If you currently receive benefits such as Apple Health (Medicaid), TANF, or Food Stamps (EBT) you automatically qualify for LIFT. Otherwise, please bring proof of income for the last 30 days and our partners at King County Public Health can let you know if you qualify.

Location: University Bookstore Cafe

Date: Thursday, June 6th

Time: 2pm-4pm

Please bring a picture ID and proof of income for the last 30 days if you are currently not receiving any other benefits.

Questions? Please email Laura Lee at udletsgo@udistrictpartnership.org

Check out our Trans Health Fair on June 8!

Trans and non-binary folks are a highly marginalized community, especially with rights and protections being stripped away at local, state, and federal levels. Arming these folks with the knowledge to advocate for their health and lives ensures that we uplift these voices that are often unheard. We want to empower trans and non-binary folks to take control of their health, especially as the number of new HIV infections amongst trans folks rise.

About the event:

Trans Health Fair: A Resiliency Space

• Date: June 8
• Schedule:
  • 10-11am: check in & networking and snacks.
  • 11am-3pm: speakers
    • Dr. Crystal Beal of QueerDoc.com
    • Gender Justice League
    • Lambda Legal
    • Janna Cuneo of TribalMed.com
  • There will be a short break for snacks!
• Location: MLK FAME Community Center (3201 E Republican, Seattle, WA 98112)
• Cost: FREE! Come and learn about trans health.
• There is limited parking, and repairs may or may not be in process. Neighborhood parking is available.
• Transit. Buses number 2, 8 and 11 will get you closest.

Contact Lux Howard with at questions at 206-957-1753 or luxh@lifelong.org.

And here is a link to our Facebook Event Page

TransHealthPoster1

Hello,

Please join Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal for a town hall at the UW!

Please join me on May 29th, 2019 at 6:30 PM for our TOWN HALL at the University of Washington!

Town halls are an opportunity for constituents to raise concerns, learn what actions I’m taking in Congress and discuss the path ahead as we continue the fight for justice.

WHEN: May 29^th, 2019
TIME: 6:30-8:00 PM
WHERE: South Ballroom, HUB, 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195
FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/430531467764885/

Come ask questions and hear how I’m fighting for Washington’s 7th District — RSVP HERE!

In Solidarity,

Pramila Jayapal

My name is Martin Mendiola, and I’m with United Way of King County. I’m reaching out to ask for your help in sharing United Way’s new AmeriCorps openings with your students and peers. United Way of King County is looking to build a team of 100 AmeriCorps members to end childhood hunger through our Summer Meals program, which provide nutritious meals and educational programming for youth at many high-poverty sites across King County. With the summer just around the corner, we need your help to build the team!

Spreading the word is easy. Please share this email or a small blurb below with your network.

Launch a nonprofit career with a summer of service. Help end childhood hunger by ensuring kids and teens access free meals during the summer! Serve meals and coordinate fun activities from June 19 through August 28, 2019. To learn more and apply today, visit www.uwkc.org/americorps.

Summer Associate is a fantastic career building opportunity for students or recent grads to receive training and professional development, a $ 1,583 monthly stipend, and a $1,300 AmeriCorps Education Award for student loans or to fund future education. FYI, there are two in-person interviews this week. If you know anyone who will be interested in this, please encourage to register for an interview time via this link.

• May 30^th, 2019: Green River College, from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

We are proud of building great AmeriCorps teams every year, but we truly cannot do it without your help. If you have any questions, please reach out to our United Way AmeriCorps inbox at unitedwayamericorps@uwkc.org.  Thanks so much for your support and partnership!

I would like to follow up on my previous email inviting your University’s students and graduates to the United Nations Conference Centre to the capital city of the second largest economy in Southeast Asia, Bangkok, for the 2019 International Diplomacy Forum, to be held July 10-12.

Designed to recognise, develop and enhance the next generation of global leaders, the inaugural Forum, held in to the capital city of the second largest economy in Southeast Asia, will comprise of interactive workshops, solution-based discussions, negotiation exercises, career advice and networking. Delivered by respected Ambassadors, MPs, Government Officials, Media and World Leading Diplomacy Experts, delegates will gain fundamental skills, insights and connections, essential for their roles as social justice advocates, within their future careers concerning sustainable and inclusive international relations and partnerships. The respected Forum provides dedicated individuals with an experience that differentiates them from the population of emerging graduates, whilst simultaneously providing a global opportunity to engage with the International Diplomatic Community.

To enable your faculty to easily distribute this opportunity to your student/graduate population, I have linked a short blurb here (easily copied and pasted), used by our other partnered universities via email, announcements and various student/graduate platforms. For more information about the International Diplomacy Forum 2019, registration fees and themes to be discussed, please find our e-Brochure linked here, or visit our website www.internationaldiplomacyforum.org.

Former President of the UN Security Council, Professor Kishore Mahbubani will deliver the Keynote Address at the inaugural International Diplomacy Forum 2019.

Professor Mahbubani is the Senior Advisor, a Global Relations expert, as well as a Professor in the Practice of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. In April 2018, The Ash Centre for Democratic Governance and Innovation, a leading research centre housed at Harvard Kennedy School, announced the appointment of Professor Mahbubani as a Senior Visiting Scholar. Professor Mahbubani also serves in many Boards and Councils of institutions around the world, including the Yale President’s Council and World Economic Forum. Most recently, he was selected by Prospect magazine as one of the top 50 world thinkers.

Applicants can either be nominated by faculty members to represent your University, or apply independently by submitting their CV to our Global Partnership Associate, Ms. Claire Emery at claire.emery@humanitarianaffairs.org.

Due to limited seating at the United Nations Conference Centre, and to ensure your students/graduates have ample time to organise flights, we would like to request that students/graduates from your select university apply before May 31. While applications are still open after May 31, those who apply before this date will receive the highest consideration for acceptance. Please note this email serves as the final call for all applications.

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