1.29. Weekly Recap I (with Summer and Andrea)

Oh wow! So much has changed since March. 

We kept finding that our conversations centered around topics of race, privilege, and equity. As a result, we decided to bring on a new co-host. 

Meet Andrea Rivers - English Faculty at South Mountain Community College and Social Justice Warrior! Andrea is an expert and facilitator on race & privilege. She is currently working on a PhD, focusing on equity and cultural relevance in higher education. 

 Weekly Recap Highlights:

• Summer and Andrea discuss their first collaboration - a day-long symposium called "Your Divided Classroom." It was a listening session before "listening sessions" were a thing. 
• Andrea predicts that people will always remember 2020 as a year of "collision" and massive change. 
• Great post by Alondra in the 3rd week of June, and check out our interview with Chandra - a recent graduate of SMCC!
• We struggle with the suggestion that we only talk about the now without taking history into consideration. 
• What we are learning in quarantine: Ask more questions. 

Looking ahead to the coming weeks:

• Upcoming episodes: Guy Goodman, Dean of Students at South Mountain Community College and a conversation with Dr. Gabriela Torres of Wheaton College  about being "anti-racist."
• Interview with Dr. Keith Catone of Roger Williams University. 

Shout outs: 

• Andrea suggests Diangelo's White Fragility and "everything Baldwin." 
• Summer suggests Coates' Between the World and Me; Davis' Freedom is a Constant Struggle; and When they Call You a Terrorist by Khan-Cullors & bandele.
• Andrea's looking forward to Spike Lee's new film. 
• Summer plugged Eric's Barbecue in the Phoenix West Valley

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Recording date: 6/19/20