Ways to Social Change: Grow

Grow

Grow your understanding and reflect on how we can come together to build stronger communities by making systemic change to our laws, policies, and practices in order to create a Minnesota that is more accountable, equitable, inclusive and just for all.

Events

Criminal (In)Justice, Race, and Policing: Derek Chauvin, Mohamed Noor, and Beyond 

Monday, April 19, 5:15 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. (CT)

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Pressing Issues: Printmaking as Social Justice in 1930s United States

All Month at the Weisman Art Museum

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Racism Untaught

All Month at Goldstein Museum of Design

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Why Canoes? Capacious Vessels and Indigenous Futures of Minnesota’s Peoples and Places

All Month at Northrop

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Mindful Mondays

Mondays from 12:00 to 1:00pm (zoom)

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Telling True Stories: The Seed Keeper

April 1st at 3:30pm (zoom)

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Bearing Witness While Black

April 14th from 7:00- 8:30pm CST

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Hosted University of Minnesota's Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing for an informal hour of meditation and light movement.

Politics in Higher Education: Spotlight Series 

April 15th at 3:30pm 

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The Clinical and Public Health Importance of Social Wellbeing

April 21st from 12:00 to 1:30pm

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Sea to Source: Reducing plastics in our environment

April 23rd from 12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Action

Volunteer:

  • Frogtown Farms
  • Appetite for Change
  • Urban Ventures
  • TC Food Justice
  • Stop Line 3
  • MN350
  • Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light

UMN Community Engaged Learning Classes:

  • AECM 3431: Communicating Food, Agriculture and Environmental Science to the Public (CFANS)
  • ENGL 3502: Nature Stories: Environmental Discourse in Action
  • ESPM 4811/5811: Environmental Interpretation (CFANS)
  • ESPM 3011W: Ethics in Natural Resources
  • ESPM 4041W: Problem Solving for Environmental Change
  • FNRM 4232W/5232W: Managing Recreational Lands
  • LEAD 3971-002: Leadership Minor Field Experience - Social Entrepreneurship
  • MGMT 4000: Social Venturing in Action
  • SUST 3017: Environmental Justice
  • YOST 2101: Urban Youth and Youth Studies
  • YOST 4411: Youth Research and Youth Program Evaluation