SOC Celebrates Inaugural Inclusive Excellence Week
"Inclusive Excellence Week" was composed of泭a series of events, including a film screening and discussion, a guest lecture, a research panel, community engagement and networking, and photo pop-ups.
The week kicked off with a screening of "," professor Laura Hinsons award-winning short documentary which follows two Street Sense reporters, homeless themselves, documenting DCs tent city. The film was followed by a panel discussion that featured the reporters, Shiela White and Reggie Black, moderated by Hinson. The泭screening泭was a great kickoff event and very powerful to have the two main characters in the documentary in attendance. Students asked some great questions,said Kristi Plahn-Gjersvold, SOCs Assistant Dean for Administration & Strategic Initiatives and chair of SOC's泭Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee. The film was funded, in part, by an SOC Race Matters grant.
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| Reggie and Sheila reporting from tent city in a scene from "Street Reporter."泭 |
Professor Aram Sinnreich invited Vivien Goldman to visit his as a guest lecturer Vivien Goldman has been on the front lines of musics role in racial reckoning and postcolonial struggle since her time working with artists such as Bob Marley and Fela Kuti in the 1970s. Her deep dive into the punky reggae party as a guest lecturer in Musical Cultures & Industries helped students connect the dots between the subcultures of working class whites in the UK, 2nd-generation Afro-Caribbean immigrants, and the birth of hip-hop in New York City, demonstrating the personal and ideological threads that connected these apparently separate universes of music and culture, said Sinnreich.
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| There was a strong turnout for the research panel.泭 |
Priya Doshi泭opened her泭Multicultural Strategic Communication class to the entire SOC community for a泭research spotlight featuring three SOC panelists; Jeffrey Madison, Director of Technology Services;泭Tambra Stevenson, PhD candidate and founder and CEO for WANDA: Women Advancing Nutrition Dietetics and Agriculture;泭and Dr. Sherri Williams, SOC associate professor. Doshi moderated the panel, "How SOC Research Fuels Inclusive Excellence,"泭covered issues from underserved communities rising up to combat climate change on their own to health equity and how Williams partners with publications to give her students the opportunity to publish on national platforms by sharing their authentic experiences.
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| SOC students, faculty and staff mingling at an after-hours reception. |
There were also events to strengthen SOCs community; Dean Sam Fulwood III hosted a morning coffee hour which allowed students, faculty and staff to talk with him and mingle with each other, and professor Gemma Puglisi and the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) held an after hours meet-and-greet which included a game where students had to guess the identities of faculty members based on their own college graduation photos. 泭The Communication and Outreach office partnered with student photographers Dantong Lou, Damian Searchwell, and Mimi Tanchevski to hold multiple pop-up photo shoots where community members photographed and asked to share how they contribute to SOCs inclusive excellence. The photos will be showcased in an exhibit in SOCs McKinley Building and on the schools website. The project was funded through an SOC RACE Matters grant.
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| Professor Priya Doshi was photographed by Damian Searchwell at a pop-up. |