Events By Quarter
2nd Session – Holistic Safety Plan Community Series: A Ki To Be Free
MCC Lounge
Join us for the HSP Community Series, A Ki To Be FREE, a space to share, reflect, and connect around issues at the heart of community and identity. Held on Tuesdays at noon in the MCC Lounge on 10/14, 10/28, and 11/18, this series, in collaboration with the Office of DEI, invites you to bring your lunch and your voice as we explore meaningful questions together.
Our second session on October 14th will focus on the theme:
- How do we navigate feelings of fear and uncertainty during political chaos and abuse of power?
- How do we activate inner leadership and collective courage?
Cup of Culture
American Agitators Film Screening and Discussion
Margo Feinberg, Executive Producer
MCC Theater
The UCSB Community Labor Center is proud to present American Agitators, a moving documentary film about Fred Ross Sr., one of the most influential grassroots organizers of the 20th Century. Ross mentored Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez, co-founders of the United Farm Workers (UFW), as well as countless other organizers all over the United States, with his model of community organizing that is rooted in patience and deep listening. The film's Executive Producer, Margo Feinberg, will participate in a 30-minute dialogue with UFW organizer and UCSB Labor Summer Alumni Jenny Alvarez and UCSB Community Labor Center Faculty Director and Chicana/o Studies Professor Ralph Armbruster Sandoval.
Spiritual Care Club
MCC Lounge
Spiritual Care Club is a recurring space where members will learn how to use and trust divine and intuitive tools for their healing and care, identity development, and dreams and goals formation. It will be an intentional space where we can experience personal and collective growth, joy, and care in a safe and encouraging environment.
First Session 10/16
Thursdays Oct 16th & 23rd Nov 13th & 20th
12:00-1:30 pm
Resilient Love
Racial Justice & Restorative Justice in a Time of Awakening, Repair, & Reimagining
Dr. Fania Davis
Corwin Pavilion
The UCSB Restorative Justice Program and MultiCultural Center are partnering to bring Dr. Fania Davis, a leading international voice on the intersection of racial and restorative justice and former civil rights attorney, to our campus! Fania will lead us in exploring how we can re-imagine healing and justice in the context of our racialized society. The intersections of racial justice, restorative justice, healing, and indigeneity will be discussed at this inflection point. How are these times of disaster, awakening, and repair inviting us to release and imagine old social structures rooted in white supremacy?
Guest Bio: Fania E. Davis is a leading international voice on the intersection of racial and restorative justice. She is a long-time social justice activist, civil rights trial attorney, author, and educator with a PhD in Indigenous Knowledge. Davis came of age in Birmingham, Alabama during the social ferment of the civil rights era. These formative years, particularly the murder of two close childhood friends in the 1963 Sunday School bombing, crystallized within Fania an enduring commitment to social transformation. For the next decades, she was active in the Civil Rights, Black liberation, women’s, prisoners’, peace, anti-racial violence, economic justice and anti-apartheid movements.
Apprenticing with African indigenous healers catalyzed Fania’s search for a healing justice, ultimately leading her to become the Founding Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth and Co-Founding Board Member of the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice. Her numerous honors include the Lifetime Achievement award for excellence in Restorative Justice, the Black Feminist Shapeshifters and Waymakers’ award, the Tikkun (Repair the World) award, the Ella Jo Baker Human Rights award, and the Ebony POWER 100 award. The Los Angeles Times named her a New Civil Rights Leader of the 21st Century. She recently received the Open Society Foundations Justice Rising Award recognizing 16 Black movement leaders working towards racial justice in the United States. Among Davis’ publications is the Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Justice, and U.S. Social Transformation.
Davis, who resides in Oakland, CA., writes and speaks internationally on restorative justice, racial justice, truth processes and indigeneity. She is a mother, grandmother, dancer, meditator and a yoga, qigong and African spirituality practitioner.
Co-Sponsors: A.S. Finance Board, Office of Black Student Development, Gaucho Underground Scholars Program,
Blum Center, and Black Women’s Health Collaborative
