HISTORY OF NATIONAL DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT AWARENESS MONTH
National Disability Employment Awareness Month was created to educate the general public on the issues that workers with disabilities face and how employers can be more inclusive in their hiring practices.
This celebration’s history started decades ago in 1945 when Congress enacted Public Law 176, which birthed what we know today as the National Disability Employment Awareness Month (N.D.E.A.M). It was only for a week then and called National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week. In 1962, the word ‘...
Join the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project in the JFK Jr. Forum for the first discussion of the 2022 "Looking Back, Paying it Forward" series featuring Maya Wiley, President of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and former counsel to the Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio. The conversation will be moderated by Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Institutional Antiracism and...
repercussions of violent histories extend far beyond these events to engender repetitions that echo for generations. In this lecture, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela will reflect on this problem and consider alternative ways of theorizing and making sense of the “transgenerational...
im is a physicist whose research interests lie in the theoretical study of the collective phenomena condensed matter systems exhibit—and in understanding how such phenomena emerges from microscopic physics. In this lecture, she will speak about her latest project to harness machine learning tools to gain new insights for understanding and utilizing quantum matter from curated databases and quantum simulator data.
CGIS South Building, room S010, 1730 Cambridge Street
During the Cold War, four legendary female chess players from Georgia revolutionized women’s chess across the globe, and became Soviet icons of female emancipation. Glory to the Queen (2020) reveals their interwoven biographies and is both a rare look into the present lives of chess stars Nona Gaprindashvili, Nana Alexandria, Maia Chiburdanidze and Nana Ioseliani, as well as a chronicle of their lasting legacy.
In this lecture, Darity will explore the theoretical framework of stratification economics—a comparatively new subspecialty in the wider field of economics that seeks to explain intergroup inequality—along with its empirical foundations, antecedents, and innovative implications for the analysis of immigration, macroeconomic analysis, wealth disparities, educational inequalities, and discrimination.
HeForShe is an invitation for men and people of all genders to stand in solidarity with women to create a bold, visible and united force for gender equality. The men of HeForShe aren't on the sidelines. They're working with women and with each other to build businesses, raise families, and give back to their communities.
Join WIT+ and WIT+ Co chairs as we kick off our programming with the theme: Navigating Your Career as a Marginalized Identity. This session will be an opportunity to hear new programming ideas and community engagement opportunities based on the feedback we received in the past year.
Janie Victoria Ward, Ed.M.'81, Ed.D.'86, and Tracy L. Robinson-Wood, Ed.M.'83, Ed.D.'88, experts in the developmental and identity challenges of young people of color, provide guidance for the faculty, advisors, and administrators (typically white women) who invest in the success of this historically underserved student group. Through case studies, student narratives, and research findings, the authors document the specific deterrents young Black...