Select Page

Home » Discover Rackham » Diversity

Diversity

Navigating Graduate School with a Disability

Are you a graduate student with a disability or chronic illness* seeking advice and community about navigating graduate school with? Join us for Navigating Graduate School with a Disability, a workshop by and for graduate students with disabilities. It can be...

Diversity Scholars in Social Media Discussion

Scholars are navigating changing spaces embedded in a system that can be slow and resistant to an evolving digital world. They are receiving competing messages about how and when to develop a digital brand and engage on social media. This session will explore how...

Anti-Racism in an Abroad Context

Structural racism in the United States is the normalization and legitimization of an array of dynamics—historical, cultural, institutional, and interpersonal—that routinely advantage whites while producing cumulative and chronic adverse outcomes for people of color....

Racial Microaggressions

Racial microaggressions can be uniquely harmful to their targets, and yet we often find ourselves skirting around this subset of microaggressions due to discomfort in openly discussing race, racism, and white supremacy. In this workshop we hope to foster an...

History is an Action Word: Designing Experiences that Empower

As an 18th century sugar plantation turned historic site, Whitney Plantation welcomes thousands of visitors annually to discuss the experiences of enslaved Africans and their descendants on Louisiana plantations and the legacies of slavery that still impact our...