Conference

Building an Activist Toolkit: Advice and Learning From Once Reluctant Student Activists

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Abstract

What is activism? What makes you an activist? What can I do to become an activist? These are very complex questions that do not necessarily have one straight forward answer. Activism looks different for every individual but is utterly important in accomplishing structural change for the various colossal systems of oppression that millions of people are challenging. This session will be led by two students representing STEM Scholars and Students Against Racism and is open to all ISCORE attendees to try and explore these questions and learn about the work these two students do.

This session will fuse storytelling and discussion-based learning to engage the audience to try and answer these questions for themselves. Hear the story of one student who is facing the University to try and bring justice to the hate crimes they were a victim to and another student who uses their privilege and the media to support other students on this campus. Learn about what went well, what could have gone better, and what can be done moving forward for activism on this campus. Participants will be asked to challenge themselves to answer large questions and learn from the experience of two student activists at this university.