<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues, I hope to see many of you at the academic Senate meeting today at 1-3pm. Just forwarding information and flyers for the Immigrant Awareness Week events that are happening this week. Please help to share this info with your students. Thanks! -Ellen<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">PODER At UCR</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:poderatucr@gmail.com">poderatucr@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 11:53 AM<br>Subject: PODER Immigration Awareness Week<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:mroto001@ucr.edu">mroto001@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:biggers@ucr.edu">biggers@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:janeth@ucr.edu">janeth@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:patrick.napier@ucr.edu">patrick.napier@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:Michael.hawkins@ucr.edu">Michael.hawkins@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:jcorey@ucr.edu">jcorey@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:reath@ucr.edu">reath@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:jennifer.najera@ucr.edu">jennifer.najera@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:cecilia.ayon@ucr.edu">cecilia.ayon@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:karthick.ramakrishnan@ucr.edu">karthick.ramakrishnan@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:rafferty@ucr.edu">rafferty@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:alejandra.dubcovsky@ucr.edu">alejandra.dubcovsky@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:covadonga.lamarprieto@ucr.edu">covadonga.lamarprieto@ucr.edu</a>>, Tanya Ann Nieri <<a href="mailto:tanya.nieri@ucr.edu">tanya.nieri@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:marta.hernandez@ucr.edu">marta.hernandez@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:ellen.reese@ucr.edu">ellen.reese@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:alfonsog@ucr.edu">alfonsog@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:setsu.shigematsu@gmail.com">setsu.shigematsu@gmail.com</a>>, Dylan Rodriguez <<a href="mailto:dylan.rodriguez@ucr.edu">dylan.rodriguez@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:alberta@ucr.edu">alberta@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:john.stamp@ucr.edu">john.stamp@ucr.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:beth.claa@ucr.edu">beth.claa@ucr.edu</a>>, <a href="mailto:robert.ream@ucr.edu">robert.ream@ucr.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:robert.ream@ucr.edu">robert.ream@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_6906334876913316878gmail-docs-internal-guid-5c31139f-7fff-26ac-df40-7062b8038d3f"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dear Educators,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">PODER invites you to join us on a long week workshop series starting February 26, 2024, through March 1, 2024. We also invite you to encourage your students to attend our workshops. We were wondering if it would be possible to offer this opportunity to attend our workshops for extra credit. Please share our flyers with your students and fellow educators you believe would be interested. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">ABOUT IAW</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">During week 8 we will have a week-long workshop series aimed to educate the UCR community about immigrant and undocumented refugees. These workshops consist of how to become an ally, educating participants on current and past issues within the undocumented community, and so on. On Wednesday 2/28, we will have our Coming Out of The Shadows event where students get the chance to share their experiences in front of the bell tower on what it means to be an undocumented person. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">ABOUT PODER</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Providing Opportunities, Dreams, and Education in Riverside (PODER) is a student organization at the University of California, Riverside that seeks to assist undocumented students through mentorship, financial aid, and community building. </span></p><br><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Thank you for taking the time to read our email. For inquiries concerning the Immigration Awareness Week </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Conference</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, please contact us at</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"> <a href="mailto:poderatucr@gmail.com" target="_blank">poderatucr@gmail.com</a> or @<a href="mailto:dmoji007@ucr.edu" target="_blank">dmoji007@ucr.edu</a></span></span><br><div><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></span></div></div>
</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Ellen Reese<div>Professor and Acting Vice Chair, Department of Society, Environment, and Health Equity (<a href="https://sehe.ucr.edu/" target="_blank">https://sehe.ucr.edu/</a>)</div><div>Chair of Labor Studies (<a href="http://laborstudies.ucr.edu/" target="_blank">laborstudies.ucr.edu</a>)<br></div><div>Faculty Co-Director of the Inland Empire Labor & Community Center (<a href="http://ielcc.ucr.edu" target="_blank">ielcc.ucr.edu</a>)</div><div>UC-Riverside</div></div><div><br></div><div><b>Most recent books </b></div><div><div><i>Unsustainable: Amazon, Warehousing, and the Politics of Exploitation</i> (with Juliann Emmons Allison, UC Press, 2023)</div><div><div><a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520388383/unsustainable" target="_blank">https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520388383/unsustainable</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><i>The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy</i>, co-edited with Jake Alimahomed-Wilson (Pluto Press, 2020; Winner of UALE's <span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt">Best Book Related to Labor Education Award, 2020-2021)</span></div><div><div><a href="https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341484/the-cost-of-free-shipping/" target="_blank">https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341484/the-cost-of-free-shipping/</a><b><br></b></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div></div></div></div></div>