Occidental College- Center for Community Based Learning

Team CCBL is excited to begin our Meet the EIA series once again, which was started by recent Oxy grad and EIA Coordinator 💛Kayla Williams💛. In this series, we seek to create space to highlight and honor the work of our EIA’s.

The first EIA in our series is Holland (she/her). She is a senior sociology major from Austin, Texas. Holland is facilitating the course Education 300: Community Engagement in Education with Professor Solórzano.

Holland’s favorite thing about being an EIA facilitator is the supportive, loving community that the program creates. She is grateful to have had the opportunity to practice fostering meaningful, reciprocal relationships with community and has been touched by how powerful these relationships are even in a time when our lives can feel so distant and disconnected from others. When Holland is not doing this work, she can be found sitting on her patio looking at Dolly Parton posters on Etsy, making her loved ones take the enneagram, or trying to teach herself to play the guitar. Something Holland is working on is learning to enjoy cooking and being more creative in the kitchen 🙂

Yay! 🎉 We are so happy to be working with you Holland! Please look forward to EIA introductions for the following weeks. Have a warm and restful weekend everyone!✨🍃🍁🌼

Please join zen priest and political strategist Norma Wong in a conversation about resilience, collective activism, and cultivating a practice for transformational social change. This event is taking place next Monday!

Monday | May 11, 2020
5-6:30PM
Zoom Link

Please RSVP to [email protected] for Zoom login information.

Oxy community, partners, and friends are all welcome!

The Fall 2020 CBLR Course List is on our website! Check out the amazing offerings for next semester:
https://www.oxy.edu/sites/default/files/assets/CCBL/course_list_fall_2020.pdf

Please join the CCBL in a panel discussion on Native American imprisonment. The panel will illuminate the injustices of imprisonment in the Indigenous context, and conversely, how Native peoples have navigated these impositions for their futurities. The title “Carceral Liberation?” refers to the paradox that many Indigenous people are introduced to Native cultural practices, such as ceremonies, powwows, language acquisition and beadwork classes, while in prison.

Following the panel, an art show featuring the work and words of Indigenous artists and people who are incarcerated will open on October 12 from 7-10pm at Avenue 50 Studio.

Thursday | October 10, 2019
6pm-8pm
Choi Auditorium, Occidental College
1600 Campus Rd., Los Angeles, 90041

Oxy community, partners, and friends are all welcome!