Racial and Climate Justice Panel Discussion
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. (virtual)

Join Dr. Alaí Reyes-Santos and her colleagues Dr. Eunice Blavascunas and Dr. Marsha Weisiger to learn about their collaborations through the Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice at the University of Oregon. Dr. Blavascunas’s collaborative projects include a podcast and ARC GIS Storymap (created with community partners and students) focused on Land, Air, and Justice. Dr. Weisiger works on the oral history project focused on histories of Oregon’s public lands.

Panelists

Dr. Alaí Reyes-Santos, Just Futures Institute, University of Oregon

Dr. Eunice Blavascunas, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies, Chair of Anthropology, Whitman College

Dr. Marsha Weisiger, Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies and Julie and Rocky Dixon Chair of U.S. Western History; Co-Director, Center for Environmental Futures, University of Oregon

Fostering Collaboration in the Public Humanities

with Dr. Alaí Reyes-Santos

Hear Dr. Alaí Reyes-Santos, Director of the Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice, share her experiences and strategies for collaboration in humanities research, with a special focus on public humanities projects.

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Helmerich Browsing Room, OSU Library

Join us early at 3:00 p.m. for refreshments

Reyes Santos Headshot

About Dr. Reyes-Santos

Dr. Alaí Reyes-Santos is an independent scholar and the founder of Alai Community Consulting, a BIPOC-led consulting firm that facilitates organizational transformations and community engagement in the non-profit sector, government, higher ed, arts and cultural initiatives, emergency preparedness and response, and social and environmental justice organizations. She teaches as a Professor of Practice at the School of Law and is the Director of the Mellon Foundation-funded Just Futures Institute at the University of Oregon. She holds a B.A. in Humanities from the University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez, and received her M.A. and Ph.D. at University of California - San Diego. Her scholarship includes Dominican-Puerto Rican relations, Afro-Latinidad and Environmentalism. She is also an Iya-priestess of Afro-Caribbean regla de osha and regla conga.

Dr. Reyes Santos' recent awards include: 2020 Woman of Recognition (NAACP Eugene-Springfield); 2021 Mellon Foundation Just Futures Grant; 2022 Racial Equity and Sustainability Collaborations Award (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education); 2022 Honorable Mention, Best Public Projects (Latin American Studies Association Digital Scholarship Section); 2022 Excellence in Teaching Sustainability (U of Oregon); 2022 Dominican Studies Institute Fellow.

To learn more, visit Dr. Alaí Reyes-Santo's personal website and her work at the Just Futures Institute website.