SJS is a student organized event that serves as space for the community
to meet and discuss social justice work in the Bay Area.
Social Justice Symposium
Saturday, February 7, 2015
8:30 am – 4:00 pm
First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley
2407 Dana Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
Please see our website for more information and to register for the free event.
We are excited to announce the 2015 workshops!
For full descriptions and presenter bios, please see our website.
- Voices of Youth with Incarcerated Parents – Project WHAT!
- Hip Hop for Social Change – Beats Rhymes and Life, Inc.
- Empowering Migrant Farmworkers through Oral Histories—The MOVOZ Project
- Building Restorative Trauma Informed Schools—Catholic Charities of the East Bay
- Mass Incarceration—Legal Services with Prisoners with Children (LSPC); All of us Or None (AOUON)
- Reproductive Justice & Social Work Practices: Supporting Clients Across All Pregnancy and Parenting Options—Backline
- Militarism-Free Intervention for Veterans—Sam Coleman
- Kingian Nonviolence Conflict Reconciliation—East Point Peace Academy
- Climate Resilience: Creating pathways out of poverty with green jobs—Rising Sun Energy Center
- Reframe It: Tools for Multiracial Allyship—Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Research
- GRADD Northern California—Graduates Reaching A Dream Deferred
- “Serve the People”—Causa Justa: Just Cause
- Ending Campus Sexual Violence Together—Amber Akemi Piatt
- Minimum Wage and Low Wage Organizing in the East Bay—East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
- Creating Community through Art and Resiliency—Queer Youth Arts Project
We will be accepting participants on a first-come, first-serve basis for workshops and meals. That being said, if a workshop room is full, we guarantee that there will be space in other wonderful and interesting workshops. We look forward to seeing you there!
*This event is free and open to the public, so please help us spread the word by forwarding this information to friends and colleagues!
