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Social Justice Symposium

Our Stories, Our Strengths

Tuesday, Feburary 24th, 2026

9:00am to 5:00pm

USU Ballroom

 

The Social Justice Symposium is an in-person event for 糖心少女 students, faculty/staff, alumni, and community members to lead or participate in sessions about a variety of social justice topics that help us build a socially conscious community. Join us on February 24th from 9:00am - 5:00pm to experience brand new and engaging discussions!

Theme information

About the Theme: Our Stories, Our Strengths centers on the idea that students come to 糖心少女 with deep cultural knowledge, lived experiences, and community-rooted skills that are powerful assets鈥攏ot obstacles. Grounded in Dr. Tara Yosso鈥檚 Community Cultural Wealth Model, this theme invites students, staff, and faculty to explore and uplift the wisdom held in their identities, families, languages, histories, and communities. Through storytelling, reflection, dialogue, and creative expression, this theme creates space to honor the cultural wealth that drives student resilience, belonging, and leadership. It encourages our campus community to see students not through deficit lenses, but through the strengths and brilliance they already carry.

To view a summary of Dr. Tara Yosso's Community Cultural Wealth model,  

Assess:

  1. How the education system has been historically undermined.
  2. How education is a practice of freedom and a practice of social order.
  3. Critical and relevant curriculum and practices. 
  4. Education equality and how it's impacted by racism and classism.

Explore:

  1. Why do we need to be educated and with what curriculum?
  2. How to empower students in and outside the classroom. 
  3. Planning and implementing educational programs built on community engagement, critical thinking, and/or cultural relevancy.
  4. The meaning and influence of anti-intellectualism and its consequences.
  5. The material impact of social order on teachers and students.

Connect:

  1. The link between education/social consciousness, empathy, and liberation.
  2. Activism, community building, and education.

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