Special Event Overview
For a Keeping Well at Work special virtual event, join us for an interactive morning with guest keynote speaker Loretta J. Ross to learn about the concept of "calling people in" as a helpful tool when conflict arises.
Participants will explore “how to start making change with those you’d rather cancel,” and ways we, as a society and as a university, can incorporate new practices of reducing harm through conversations focused on shared values and connection, rather than punishment.
Event details:
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Calling In with Loretta J. Ross
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Wednesday, November 26
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10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. ET
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Microsoft Teams Town Hall; In-person viewing room in EC5 1111
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Moderated discussion followed by Q&A with Jazz Fitzgerald
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The link to join this virtual event will be sent closer to the event date
Register on Portal to hear from this influential activist and scholar and for a chance to win copies of her book on November 26!
Questions about this event can be directed to ohd@uwaterloo.ca.
Intended Audience
All UWaterloo employees
Format
Virtual keynote; In-person viewing room in EC5 1111
About the Guest Speaker
Loretta J. Ross
Activist, Public Intellectual, Scholar
Loretta J. Ross is an activist, public intellectual, scholar, the 2022 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" award and an Associate Professor at Smith College. She has a passion for innovating creative imagining about global human rights and social justice issues and started her career in activism and social change in the 1970s. In 1978, she was the third executive director for DC Rape Crisis Center, the first rape crisis center in the country. This was her entry point into the women’s movement, where she learned about women’s human rights, reproductive justice, white supremacy, and women of color organizing. Through her organizing, she helped launch the movement to end violence against women that has evolved into today's #MeToo movement. Throughout her 50-year career, she has worked with the National Football League Players' Association, the National Organization for Women (NOW), the National Black Women's Health Project, the Center for Democratic Renewal (National Anti-Klan Network), the National Center for Human Rights Education, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective.
Loretta retired as an organizer in 2012 to teach and follow her passion to educate. In 1996, she founded the first center in the U.S. to innovate creative human rights education for all students transforming social justice issues to be more collaborative and less divisive. In her work Calling In the Calling Out Culture, she transforms how people can overcome political differences to use empathy and respect to guide difficult conversations. In 2023, Loretta was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
About the Moderator
Jazz Fitzgerald (they/them)
Manager, Student Equity, Community and Leadership Development, Student Success Office (SSO)
Jazz Fitzgerald works in the Student Success Office where they co-create spaces of belonging with and for equity-denied students on the UWaterloo campus. Jazz and their team work to support leadership development opportunities through the Community Leadership Certificate, in addition to supporting community mentorship through the Connection Collective.