Description:

The Indigenous Graduate Student Collective invites you to a workshop that recognizes the changing practical and policy landscapes (and their attendant challenges) can create practical barriers to direct service providers supporting immigrant communities, researchers focused on refugee communities and direct service provision, and immigrant and Indigenous communities themselves. With this recognition, this workshop aims to respond to changing landscapes and emerging challenges by fostering dedicated time and space to create organizational and cross-organizational dialogue and responses, create greater synergy between service providers and researchers, and enhance actors’ and communities’ capacities and preparedness to respond and support. This workshop from November 10-11 will prove to be a central space to convene and respond. 

On November 10, the workshop will center two keynotes from Dr. S. B. West and Alexandra Rodriguez (see posters below) while hosting panels that lift up service providers working to support immigrant communities in Chicagoland and across the US. The event will be catered both days, and space is limited. For NU students, faculty, and staff, please complete this form to register your interest in attending. If you are or know of another organization outside of NU that could benefit from attending or presenting, please fill out this form. Priority will be given to students, faculty, and staff with lived experience related to the topics and themes of the workshop. 

Funded by the US Department of State’s Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund (CDAF) Award, CNAIR, and MSA