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

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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.

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