Tag: MESA
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Reminder: An Evening with Author Jennifer De Leon
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Join in for an evening with Guatemalan-American author, Jennifer De Leon, Tuesday, March 22 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Phoenix Room or virtually. The event is open to the public. Come learn about her journey as a woman of color navigating through the world of literature as an author, editor, speaker and creative…
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An Evening with Author Jennifer De Leon, Tuesday, March 22, 5:30 p.m.
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Join in for an evening with Guatemalan-American author, Jennifer De Leon, Tuesday, March 22 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Phoenix Room or virtually. The event is open to the public. Come learn about her journey as a woman of color navigating through the world of literature as an author, editor, speaker and creative…
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The census pushed people into strict racial categories for 200 years. A new approach reveals our region’s racial complexity and diversity, Press-Gazette interviews Miriam Brabham
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…”It’s a feeling that (UW-Green Bay’s Multicultural Student Success Manager) Miriam Brabham, 31, of Green Bay, also has encountered. For her, the complication of being multiethnic is bound up in her black curls. Brabham, the daughter of a Black father and a white mother of Italian and Irish origin, followed her boyfriend to Green Bay three years…
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Photos: ‘Bias Inside Us’ opening
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University of Wisconsin-Green Bay hosted a grand opening for Smithsonian Exhibit, “The Bias Inside Us,” which is now open to the public, on Friday, Jan. 14 in the Weidner Center. Chancellor Michael Alexander, Vice Chancellor Corey King and Secretary of the Department of Safety and Professional Service for the State of Wisconsin Dawn Crim shared…
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Photos: UW-Green Bay hosts community Kwanzaa Celebration
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As UW-Green Bay hosted the community Kwanzaa celebration, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021 with food and entertainment, guest speaker Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes encouraged support for Black-owned businesses as a way to honor one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa. This year’s theme was on Ujamaa, or cooperative economics. The program included a Libation Ceremony by…
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Kwanzaa event at UW-Green Bay spotlights how to help Black-owned businesses
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GREEN BAY – Students at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes encouraged support for Black-owned businesses as a way to honor one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa at the university’s annual celebration Saturday night. UW-Green Bay held its yearly event for Kwanzaa on campus Saturday and this year’s theme was on…
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Kwanzaa Celebration is Saturday, Dec. 4
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Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes will speak at the community Kwanzaa Celebration on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Phoenix Rooms in the University Union, UW-Green Bay. Barnes serves as Wisconsin’s 45th Lieutenant Governor. He is the first African American to serve as a Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, and the second…
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Keep the Conversation Going with Tim Wise, Nov. 3 at 7 p.m.
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University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA) is pleased to present Keep the Conversation Going with: Tim Wise on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021 at 7 p.m. at the Weidner Center as part of our Keep the Conversation Going Series inspired by The Bias Inside Us. This event is free and open to the public.…
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Smithsonian Community Engagement Project on Implicit Bias Coming to Weidner Center
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Traveling Exhibit Will Be In Grand Foyer of the Weidner Center January 15 – February 13, 2022 Green Bay, Wis.—University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, UW-Green Bay’s Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs Office (MESA) and the Weidner Center for the Performing Artsare pleased to announce the Weidner Center will host “The Bias Inside Us” January 15, 2022 through February 13, 2022. The community engagement…
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UW-Green Bay’s culture of caring carried Frances Nazario in her journey to become an educator
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The journey to a bachelor’s degree was long but fulfilling for Frances Nazario, who will graduate from UW-Green Bay on Saturday, May 15, 2021. Born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, but raised in Wisconsin, Nazario says she “feels blessed and fortunate to be bicultural. I am proud to be Puerto Rican and proud to be a…