Talk: “Organizing with Love in a Time of Hate” by Ai-jen Poo

• Event Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2018
• Time: 4:00 pm (CST)
• Location: University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

Ai-jen Poo, renowned activist and thought-leader, will speak about the current political climate and the importance of creating a multi-racial, multi-generational movement that centers on the most vulnerable among us. Using the work of the National Domestic Worker Alliance as an example, Poo will explore the enormous potential for change in this moment as well as her conviction that we are “all activists now.”

Ai-jen Poo is the author of The Age of Dignity: Caring for a Changing America (2015) and winner of a 2014 MacArthur “genius” grant.

The CAS/MillerComm public events series brings to campus people who offer unique cross-disciplinary contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of the university.

This Center for Advanced Study event is hosted by the Department of Asian American Studies in conjunction with the Campus Faculty Association, Center on Health, Aging, and Disability (CHAD), College of Applied Health Sciences, College of Business, College of Labor and Employment Relations, Department of African American Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Department of History, Department of Latina/o Studies, Department of Media and Cinema Studies, Department of Political Science, Department of Psychology, Department of Sociology, Graduate Employees’ Organization, Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations, School of Social Work, and the Spurlock Museum.