On Saturday, February 22nd training for any Black and Indigenous people and people of color interested in joining the global struggle for Food Sovereignty will be held 9 am to 7 pm!

The training will include a visionary fiction workshop to imagine the world after the downfall of Big Food companies, popular education on agribusiness and its influence on our education system, and an invitation to learn more about Uprooted & Rising.

The venue is very accessible and there will be childcare for anyone that needs it. If you have questions you should not hesitate to contact estefania@realfoodchallenge.org or text/call at 210-837-3205.

If you are reading this and are interested please go ahead and register here: bit.ly/unrseattle.

Here is the facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/864540720665535/874438093009131/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity&notif_id=1581467812671206

Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS)

APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 6, 2020

The South Asia Center will be re-opening our summer graduate and undergraduate Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship competition, with an extended deadline of 5:00 pm PST March 6.

FLAS Fellowships support students from all UW departments and schools in acquiring modern foreign languages and area studies competencies. Summer FLAS Fellowships support intensive foreign language study (no area studies coursework is required).

Languages supported by South Asia Center FLAS are Bengali (Bangla), Hindi, Persian, and Urdu. Other South Asian languages subject to approval.

The summer FLAS award for undergraduate and graduate students is $5000 tuition plus $2500 stipend.

Eligibility: applicants must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident

The South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI, for study at UW-Madison) is a possible option for summer language study.

The SASLI application deadline is April 1, but they ask for applications as soon as possible to ensure enrollments: https://sasli.wisc.edu/

FLAS application guidelines and more information: https://jsis.washington.edu/advise/funding/flas/

Fill out the link below if you are interested in a queer/trans winter hangout event! This could be used for networking, co-working, doing puzzles / board games, watching a movie, etc.

If that sounds like something you’d be interested in, please completed this poll by THIS THURSDAY to find a time that will work for the most people:  https://www.when2meet.com/?8767870-HvPiE  

Additionally, there has been a huge bag of makeup that has been donated from Thrive Causemetics, via Ingersoll Gender Center. This high quality vegan make-up is free for anyone who is trans, nonbinary, etc, or questioning/exploring their gender identity and present at the event!

The Evans Coalition (EPOC, PCD, EISA, NOW, and OiP) are proud to present:
The Summit on Race and Equity in Public Policy
Saturday, February 15, 2020
10:30 am to 5:00 pm
UW Husky Union Building (the HUB), Room 211-A

At the Summit, we will be joined by Dr. Ben Danielson from the Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic, and Esther Lucero, CEO of the Seattle Indian Health Board, for our keynotes in the morning and afternoon, respectively. We will also host workshops on topics that include White Allyship; How to apply intersectional, anti-racist theory and strategies to public policy; Community Organizing & Public Policy with a racial equity lens; and How to effectively and equitably involve marginalized communities in the policy process. It is going to be an amazing day!

Lunch is included with the purchase of a ticket.
Tickets can be purchased here:
http://bit.ly/2RMNuoq

UW Diversity Leadership Conference  is held on Friday, February 21, from 3-7 pm it is an afternoon skill-building and intergroup dialogue conference. The theme of this year’s conference is The Personal Is Political: Showing Up for Ourselves and Others in Solidarity.

Students who attend the workshops will learn how to navigate conversations regarding the upcoming election year and propel them forward towards meaningful opportunities on and off-campus. The conference is catered by Bay Laurel with sweet treats from Seattle Pops. Students will also have the opportunity to win raffle prizes in the form of gift cards to Trader Joe’s, Safeway, and Starbucks. 

Student Registration page to sign up and attend

If you have any questions or concerns about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact eccprgms@uw.edu . 

Be sure to apply before the priority deadline: 2/15 to be considered for scholarships!!

Social Work Spain: Social Justice in Times of Crisis

UW Center, León, Spain

August 23 – September 16

Directors: Carrie Lanza and William Vesneski

SOC WF 497 (undergraduate), SOC W 597 (graduate)

VLPA and writing credit available!

5 credits for all students

The application for the program is available, here

Concerned about tobacco use in kids?  Consider taking part in Tar Wars!

Tar Wars is a tobacco-free education program for fourth- and fifth-grade students. The program is designed to teach kids about the short-term health effects of tobacco use, the cost associated with using tobacco products, and the advertising techniques used by the tobacco industry to market their products to youth.

Please bookmark the following page as we will be updating it regularly as more schools sign up. We will also send out sign-up emails when more schools join, but it will always be this same link.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bbe4BHQidS2-oIyb9rreWyIYie7_CMzoBpp4YaXZHQo/edit?usp=sharing

On this document you will find the presentation dates and school info as well as the Tar Wars lead contact information if you have any questions. The Tar Wars leader will reach out to the volunteers who signed up to finalize transportation plans and timing a few days prior to each presentation. There is no limit on the number of volunteers each day (2-3 total is normal), and if you can only make a partial day then please communicate with the Tar Wars lead for that school.

 

Are you a current students, alumni, faculty, and staff that is working on research. starting your own non-profit, or working for an amazing organization that is social work related?
Apply to present this information in a 5-minute Lightning talk!
Event is in April. Apply by March 7 at bit.ly/LTpresenter
RSVP for the event at bit.ly/LT2020rsvp
Applications are open to current students, alumni, faculty, and staff.

Panel:  Social Demography of Homelessness

Friday, February 14th 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm 
Raitt Hall, Room 121

• “Housing and Food Insecurity among UW Students:
  Variation by Demographic and Economic Characteristics”
  RACHEL FYALL  –  UW Evans School of Public Policy and Governance

• “Homeless and Sleepless in Seattle”
  HORACIO DE IGLESIA
  UW Department of Biology

• “Designing & Learning from the Creating Moves to Opportunity Experience”
  ANDRIA LAZAGA
  Seattle Housing Authority

The application deadline for early fall and autumn quarter faculty-led programs is Feb. 15^th 

All students who submit their application on or before this deadline will be considered for the UW Study Abroad Scholarship. Here is more information about how our scholarship program works if you need a refresher. https://www.washington.edu/studyabroad/students/resources/finances/scholarships/

• The Gilman Scholarship, which awards up to $8,000 and supports undergraduate study abroad to all locations is now accepting applications.
• All students who are U.S. citizens who are receiving a federal Pell grant as part of their financial aid award letter should be applying for this scholarship! No letters of recommendation are required to be considered!
• Use resources such as: The Gilman Writing Guide, and a submission checklist
  • Application deadline is Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 11:59pm Pacific Time.
• Scott’s Cheap Flights Scholarship awards $1,000. Open to all U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Both undergraduate students AND graduate students are eligible to apply.
  • Deadline March 20, 2020

• Freeman Asia Scholarship  supports undergraduate study abroad to countries in Southeast Asia. Awards amounts vary by program length. Applications for this scholarship will open on February 10, 2020.
  • Application deadline is April 6, 2020.

5)The Women’s Identity Abroad Discussion is back: A panel discussion with other women who have returned from abroad as they share their experiences and challenges

Meeting takes place Wednesday, February 19, 12:30–2:00pm, MGH 171 (MGH 171),  RSVP here

Colectiva de Latin American Social Workers is hosting a movie screening and discussion panel centralizing the conflict occurring in Puerto Rico. We would like to extend the invitation to all SSW students and faculty!

The Diversity Leadership Conference (DLC), held on Friday, February 21, from 3-7 pm it is an afternoon skill-building and intergroup dialogue conference. The theme of this year’s conference is The Personal Is Political: Showing Up for Ourselves and Others in Solidarity.

Students who attend the workshops will learn how to navigate conversations regarding the upcoming election year and propel them forward towards meaningful opportunities on and off-campus.

Click here for: Student Registration  

Folks can also checkout our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/878983282563474/

And the DLC Website: https://depts.washington.edu/ecc/dlc/

If you have any questions or concerns about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact eccprgms@uw.edu . 

You’re invited to our annual Lobby Day for Health Equity! 

Health Equity Circle brings 50+ students (from schools of public health, nursing, medicine, law, social work, and more) to Olympia to voice support for or against the passage of specific bills that are critical to health equity in Washington State

If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to Health Equity Circle team at: hec.lobbyday@gmail.com

SIGN UP

Click this link to fill out a survey and sign up for Lobby Day 2020:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7XighqvHmOkHNDj-rgXeXI6vsdcWsqN2pZDjatgKT3MFRkw/viewform?usp=sf_link

* Signing up in by February 3rd will allow you to be able to participate in the bill selection process with the other participants! Vote on the issues that you want to bring to the Legislators

Open to all majors from all campuses and has no prerequisites. Deadline is January 31st, 2020.

You can read about the impact of one of Dr. Ezeonwu’s previous study abroad programs in this story: https://www.uwb.edu/news/november-2019/alumni-bradley-budrow.

Questions can be directed to uwbworld@uw.edu or mezeo@uw.edu.

Trans Intracommunity Support: a Scoping Literature Review

Intracommunity support and knowledge sharing is used in trans communities as they continue to navigate systems of oppression. Even for individuals with access to accepting families and service providers, connecting with other trans individuals can provide useful insight and resources.

As you might remember, the City and LIHI are scheduling the Northlake Tiny House Village for eviction this Monday 12/09, 3 months before their contract with the City is supposed to end and in the middle of Winter. Since Northlake is one of our Outreach sites, and our neighbors, I’m reaching out for 3 urgent asks:

1. Sign this petition which will be delivered to the Mayor. Deadline to sign is 1pm today: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdL9x3qHYcunMOYx7okzWWh8Uh4YoJ37gyfSbGBJAMMgQtwnQ/viewform

2. Join me on Monday at 8am at Northlake Village in solidarity with residents if the city tries to come in and physically evict people. *Happy to answer questions about what this day might look like. We are not expecting the city to use force. If you want to join, you can respond to this email or text me so we can all go together. (630)677-9049.

3. Share this information with your Seattle networks so we can build as much community support around this as possible.

We are interested in engaging with SSW students to learn about students’ experiences within the healthcare system in the context of race. Our hope is to develop a space to think about and create alternative responses to confronting racist health practices. The purpose of this questionnaire is to learn more about the experiences of our classmates in the healthcare system in relation to their racial identity, but also added intersectional components of gender identity and age. For any questions related to this project, please contact Taquesha (tdean94@uw.edu), Annie (anncantr@uw.edu), or Aya (azouhri@uw.edu). All responses are collected confidentially and will be reported during the SOC W 504 presentation.

Link: https://forms.gle/isba6VJrqDogTL8A6

Dear SSW Students,

The UW-SSW Compassion and Resilience Committee would love to get your input and suggestions for events and activities for the school year. Please take a moment to share your suggestions and thoughts in a brief survey. With your input we can organize events that would better fit what you would like to help support resilience and compassion in our SSW community. We realize this is a super busy time, so any ideas you share would be greatly appreciated!

Here’s a link to our survey: https://forms.gle/qBkQ6KhmzJnCTp8s5

Thank you for making time to share your insights with us! Please send questions to jagosar@uw.edu.

What does it mean to center equity and justice in environmental work? 

The EarthLab Salon is currently accepting presentation ideas centered around this question from all UW faculty, staff, and students!

Pairs of presenters from two distinct fields are invited to submit their talk proposals. Each pair will work collaboratively and present contrasting or complementary perspectives on the theme of equity and justice in environmental work. Presenters are encouraged to seek new colleagues from across units, professions, and positions, and to integrate creative modes such as dance, spoken word, or music, into presentations that enable multiple perspectives to be expressed.

For more information and to submit your idea, visit earthlab.uw.edu/2019/11/earthlab-salon-proposals or look at the attached document. For any questions, please contact sarajo@uw.edu.

This initiative is funded by EarthLab, CoENV Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Center for Communication, Difference and Equity, and an OMA&D Seed Fund.

Presentation ideas are due January 5, 2020

EarthLab Salon 2020 RFP Flyer_Final

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