The priority deadline for the Program Manager - Graduate Student Leadership Development position is today!
If you want to bring about a future in which people & planet prosper together and want to work with a wonderful community of students, please join us!
#UMNProud of @UMNhonors and @umn_global_stud grad Lilli Ambort. Selected as a 2021 Yenching Scholar, she will receive a full scholarship for graduate study at Peking University. A Chinese minor in @UMN_AMES and @UMNIonE undergraduate leader, she will study climate and migration.
Here's an intriguing article @ensiamedia about how native educators are teaching students about western and native science #biodiversity#nature#climatechange https://t.co/qx1JhW6DHV
I wrote this piece about investigatory traffic stops by the police. It might help people understand the legal authority the police have to pull over cars - and the racial disparities that result. https://t.co/APIG5gTAt4
@GabrielDolan1 Great to see you and hear from you in Susan’s retirement party today! Hope you are doing well and staying healthy. With love from Minnesota -Mary
“We have to believe change is possible in order to bring it about.”
—Dr. Ibram X. Kendi delivering powerful messages of truth at tonight’s @HHHSchool Distinguished Carlson Lecture.
YES! The test for all will be, not in statements and "gymnastics" but in concrete, bold and immediate actions!! After all, action speaks louder than anything else.
Another resource on racial justice, Mary Hannemann recommends Dr Francis' TedTalk, which reminds us that "We must confront the ways that our actions and our institutions lead to a differential treatment of blacks, even if done unintentionally."
Watch here: https://t.co/bTByNYvfYC
I’ve been getting a lot of questions from my non-Black friends about how to be a better ally to Black people. I suggest unlearning and relearning through literature as just one good jumping off point, and have broken up my anti-racist reading list into sections:
"That is #planetaryhealth, that is how we move forward: by recognizing the worth and value of every single being on this planet." -Teddie Potter, @UMNNursing 🌍 #PeopleandPlanet
Great point by @KendraWrites about why media coverage of #climatechange needs to continue to happen throughout the #COVIDー19 pandemic; because it's important to connect the dots about how the pandemic is already affecting our human response to climate change. #secondmondays