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DESCRIPTION:The Rev. Louis Gaffney Endowed Chair and the College of Arts & 
 Sciences (CAS) Leadership Committee on Intersectionality and Justice (LCIJ
 ) invite you to Building Solidarity: Organizing and Resistance Across Marg
 inalized Communities. Solidarity is vital to social\, political\, economic
 \, and human rights movements. While marginalized communities are often pi
 tted against one another by structural forces\, they have a long history a
 nd vibrant contemporary practices in building solidarity for mutual libera
 tion. We are honored to present four women of color leaders who have been 
 engaging in community organizing across different marginalized identities 
 and communities.\n\n \n\nDate: May 18\, 2026 (Mon) 5-7PM. (A reception wil
 l follow after the event.)\n\nPlace: Seattle University Pigott Auditorium.
 \n\n \n\nPresenters:\n\n \n\nDr. Patricia Romney\n\nThird World Women’s 
 Alliance\n\nDr. Patricia Romney is a psychologist who currently practices 
 as a psychotherapist for elders and their families. She also works as a le
 adership and retirement coach for academic professionals. Her co-edited vo
 lume Understanding Power: An Imperative for Human Services was published i
 n 2017. Her book We Were There: The Third World Women’s Alliance and the
  Second Wave of Feminism\, in October 2021. In 2022 she was named a “Mas
 sachusetts Commonwealth Heroine.” Her blog “Positively Joyful Aging”
  is published bi-weekly on Substack\, and her current activism focuses on 
 building community and cultivating leadership among social justice activis
 ts.\n\n \n\nElianne Farhat\n\nTakeAction Minnesota\n\nElianne Farhat has b
 een organizing people power into winning campaigns for more than 20 years.
  In 2018\, she became TakeAction Minnesota’s Executive Director. Since t
 hen\, members have led campaigns winning transformational change at the st
 ate and local levels including paid sick days\, prescription drug regulati
 ons\, healthcare access expansion\, renters’ right to repair\, and small
 er class sizes. Elianne is the first in her Lebanese father’s family to 
 be born in the United States and of Lakota (Standing Rock) descent on her 
 mother’s side. She currently lives in Saint Paul with her partner and th
 ree young children.  \n\n \n\nLaila Saliba\n\nWashington for Peace and Jus
 tice\n\nLaila Saliba was raised in the Pacific Northwest and is a descenda
 nt of Palestinian genocide survivors. She serves as Chair of Washington fo
 r Peace and Justice (WA4PJ)\, a Palestinian-led state advocacy organizatio
 n. WA4PJ's Cut Ties with Genocide campaign\, in coalition with Jewish Voic
 e for Peace\, targets the Washington State Investment Board to divest from
  companies complicit in the occupation of the Palestinian people. The camp
 aign encouraged the State Treasurer's office to rework its ESG policy in a
  way that appeared to render its Caterpillar bond holdings a violation\, r
 esulting in $52 million in divestment. WA4PJ has also championed\, in coal
 ition with JPV and CAIR\, to advance genocide education legislation\, get 
 justice for Aysenur Ezgi Eygi\, and lay the groundwork for $1.2 billion in
  divestment legislation.\n\n \n\nDr. Choua Xiong\n\nSolidarity Holds Our U
 nity Together (SHOUT)\n\nDr. Choua Xiong is an assistant professor of Hmon
 g Studies and Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Informe
 d by her organizing as a motherscholar in community-based educational spac
 es\, schools\, and higher education\, Choua leads various participatory ac
 tion research (PAR) projects that center the perspectives of minoritized c
 ommunities and the roles they play in educating youth about schooling\, po
 litical participation\, and belonging. Her research has been funded by nat
 ional foundations including Spencer Foundation\, National Science Foundati
 on\, National Endowment for the Humanities\, Fulbright-Hays\, and AmeriCor
 ps. Dr. Choua teaches courses that examine displacement\, race and raciali
 zation\, gender\, and non-state community and home-making.
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LOCATION:Pigott Building\, 104
SUMMARY:Building Solidarity: Organizing and Resistance Across Marginalized 
 Communities
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.seattleu.edu/event/building-solidarity-organiz
 ing-and-resistance-across-marginalized-communities
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