Special Teas -- Special Guests from Career Services
Each month, join us for tea, dessert, and conversation with a variety of our campus partners – this month talk with our friends from Career Services to learn about how you can achieve success!
Each month, join us for tea, dessert, and conversation with a variety of our campus partners – this month talk with our friends from Career Services to learn about how you can achieve success!
Pundits, scholars and ordinary people alike lament the troubling decline of democracy in the contemporary United States. Trust in democratic institutions is at a nadir while political cynicism and support for authoritarianism are on the rise. In this broader context of political malaise, where are the avenues for building a more robust democratic polity? Drawing on insights from qualitative research, Dr. Michener will highlight how building power within racially and economically marginalized communities around issues directly related to their material interests (like health and housing) is a promising pathway. Grassroots political organizing is (perhaps unexpectedly) an antidote to the social cleavages that accelerate democratic backsliding. What's more is that such organizing can forge a route to transforming both the polity and the political economy it is embedded within such that both are more attuned to communities that teeter at the margins of the existing power structures.
Registration is required.
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Come join us for a catered lunch at the Pan-Asian American Community House's "Explore. Reflect. Become. Lunch Series" with speaker Alaric Qin on Thursday, April 25 at 12pm (location: ARCH Room 108 at 3601 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104). Please register at https://bit.ly/PAACHERBLUNCHSERIES.
Alaric, M&T '16 is from the SGV region of Southern California. He is motivated in life by a desire to listen and learn from the people around him, to share in community with others, and to find the things that give him a sense of meaning. Lately that has meant spending time with and taking care of his mom, singing and recording music, and showing up for his friends whenever and wherever he can.
The Explore. Reflect. Become Lunch Series focuses on the deep reflection of our personal experiences and the becoming of ourselves. We will invite individuals from Penn and the Philadelphia community to share their intimate histories and backgrounds and how they've explored, reflected, and become the person that they are.