Making Science Work for Social Justice
Sat, Oct 24
|Online Class
A2E Recommends! Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership


Time & Location
Oct 24, 2020, 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
Online Class
About the Event
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In this class, the Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership will explore the principles of ‘solidarity science’ and what it means for our community. We will present a few examples that illustrate how solidarity science solves problems by recognizing the significance of social, political, economic, and cultural contexts and by inviting many people and types of knowledge to the table. Participants will workshop how we can use solidarity science to address the issues we identify in the community, and how we can make science a public good.
Our workshop is intended for a wide audience with diverse perspectives. At the core of solidarity, science is a focus on reaching multiple experiences and understandings to solve problems. Our audience is asking how to demand more from the scientific community, how to create coalition, how to listen to each other better, how to critique the role of science in…