About Inter-Org/ilab summit 2021
The UCSC Sustainability Office and Intersectionality Laboratory are collaborating to bring you the student-run Inter-Org/i-Lab Summit 2021. This three day VIRTUAL summit starts Saturday May 15th through Monday, May 17th to talk about social environmental justice and healing. The theme this year is to heal on a personal, community, and planetary level.
The summit will focus on dialogue and exploration of healing and its relationship to environmental and social justice issues. Throughout the summit we will address the intersections and interweaving of healing on the personal, community and planetary level. We want to pose the question, “As we transition back to campus, how do we as a community address the vital issues of safety, basic needs, accessibility, respect, and sense of belonging which were central before the pandemic and continue to be so?”
Included will be keynote speakers, workshops, panels, poster sessions, art exhibits and more from our community on and off campus!
The Sustainability Office strives to foster a culture of diverse, equitable and inclusive sustainability at UCSC.
We actively engage students, staff, faculty and community members through education, leadership development, institutional change and behavioral transformation. We build partnerships with students and community members to improve UCSC's environmental performance, seeking to model the way for how large institutions can work collaboratively to solve some of the world's biggest environmental and social justice challenges. |
The idea of an intersectionality laboratory at UC Santa Cruz began in the Summer season of 2019. Some staff in the College Housing and Educational Services (CHES) and the Office of
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI) were taking stock of the evolution of our current social constructs, reflecting that students are also wanting to engage in concepts of intersectionality and moving the theory into action. We also reflected on creating and maintaining a collective sense of self, sanity, and reality that is sustainable with our indigenous and pre-colonial existence. So to that end, we began meeting and formulating what this effort could look like. |