2022 Unlikely Allies Conference

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Student, faculty, and staff action research group to host racial allyship conference in March during Women's History Month

Join this provocative conversation about campus racial allyship on Friday, March 4, 2022 at 7:00 p.m., in the Plaster Student Union Theater. The Unlikely Allies Conference (UAC) includes a campus-wide lecture and book signing with Dr. Karen L. Dace (2012), author of Unlikely Allies in the Academy: Women of Color and White Women in Conversation. Masks are recommended and social distancing will be enforced. To view the lecture via webinar, please visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84711250888.

The UAC was conceived of by a group of Black women at MSU to promote dialogue about racial allyship as a transformative strategy for institutional change and is being sponsored by the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning; the Division of Student Affairs; and the Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

The UAC is being co-sponsored by:

  • The Diversity Fund sponsored by Student Affairs
  • Marketing and Communications
  • McQueary College of Health and Human Services Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council
  • College of Education Diversity and Inclusion Task Force
  • College of Business Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
  • College of Natural and Applied Sciences Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
  • College of Humanities and Public Affairs Diversity Council
  • Staff Senate
  • Multicultural Programs sponsored by Student Affairs

About the Author

Karen L. Dace is Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She is also an Associate Professor in Communications Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and has taught courses in and written about intercultural communication, race relations, the construction of gender, and the empowerment of women of Color. Dace holds bachelor's and master's degree in Liberal Arts and Mass Communication, respectively, from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa. In 2012, she published an edited book, Women of Color and White Women in Conversation (Routledge) which brought together ten women of Color and ten white women to discuss the challenges of working across race in university settings.

PARC Members

The UAC was conceived of by the following members of a Participatory Action Research Counterspace (PARC; West, 2021) at MSU:

  • Elizabeth Atukunda
  • Harmauhny Faulkner
  • Michelle Gavel
  • Jorre Hadley
  • Azaria Hogans
  • Tia Latimer
  • Arica Lee-Anderson
  • Denise Lofton
  • Ashley Payne
  • Michele Smith
  • Nicole West

References

Dace, K. L. (Ed.). (2012). Unlikely allies in the academy: Women of color and white women in conversation. Routledge.
West, N. M. (2022). Defining the contours of a Participatory Action Research Counterspace developed by, for, and about Black women in higher education [Submitted to the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education].

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To request disability accommodations, please contact the Office for Institutional Equity and Compliance at (417) 836-4252, Toll-free at (877) 967-8636, or equity@missouristate.edu. Missouri State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Minority/Female/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity Employer and Institution.

2022 UAC Pre-Conference Book Discussions

Faculty, staff, and students can download the eBook. Access requires BearPass login.

FCTL Book Talk

Staff Senate Book Discussion

Intersectional Student Book Club

FCTL Book Talk

Dr. Marjorie Shavers

Join Drs. Marjorie Shavers and Nancy Gordon for a discussion via ZOOM, about Dr. Karen L Dace's Unlikely Allies in the Academy: Women of Color and White Women in Conversation.

Friday, February 25, 2022 at 11:00 a.m.
The ZOOM link for this event is https://missouristate.zoom.us/j/93198320884

For additional information, interested faculty should contact Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning at FCTL@missouristate.edu.

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Staff Senate Book Discussion

Join Drs. Rabekah Stewart & Tracey Glaessgen for a discussion via ZOOM, about Dr. Karen L. Dace's Unlikely Allies in the Academy: Women of Color and White Women in Conversation.

Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 12:00 p.m.
The ZOOM link for this event is https://missouristate.zoom.us/j/99789391642

For additional information, interested staff should contact Christina Bowles at (417) 836-5258 or cbowles@missouristate.edu.

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Intersectional Student Book Club

Join Arica Lee-Anderson, with Sister Circle, & Elliot Barber, with the Office of Multicultural Programs, for a discussion via ZOOM, about Dr. Karen L. Dace's Unlikely Allies in the Academy: Women of Color and White Women in Conversation.

Friday, February 25, 2022 at 12:15 p.m.
The ZOOM link for this event is https://missouristate.zoom.us/j/95423742651

For additional information, interested students should contact the Office of Multicultural Programs at (417) 836-3043 or MulticulturalPrograms@missouristate.edu.

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