Please join the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship for a conversation about community-engaged learning, research, and internships for undergraduate students. This event will feature brief presentations by Dr. Erin Aeran Chung, Dr. Shawntay Stocks, and Vanessa Han (’26), Angela Tracy (’25), and Ethan Tan (’25), moderated by Kobi Khong (’24). Speakers will emphasize their own experiences with community-engaged learning, how it has shaped their intellectual development, and why it has been crucial to their educational experience.

This is the first of two events planned for the fall ’23 semester concerning community-engaged learning in the Baltimore-DC region as part of the launch of the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship’s new undergraduate major, Critical Diaspora Studies (CDS).

The CDS major is the result of an undergraduate student movement that began in 2021 and advocated for an activism-oriented academic program that enables students to study the connections, solidarities, and dissonances between geographical and cultural areas of study—from Asian American Studies and the African diaspora to Indigenous and Latinx Studies—that are usually considered separately from one another, but are in fact connected through entangled histories of migration, colonialism, and social movements. The major will include a required community-engaged learning and research that focuses on these entangled histories and contemporary social movements.

The second event will take place at the new 555 Penn building on Saturday, Nov. 4. Students who are interested in attending should pre-register by e-mailing gcho2@jhu.edu. Travel costs and lunch will be provided.