Friday Forum+Conversation Café

Friday Forum+Conversation Café has been a member of Linktree for 2 years and joined in September 2024. Resources ffcc1873 has populated their site with include: • Connect with the New American Welcome Center • Meet Urbana Mayor DeShawn Williams • Meet Renee Bracey Sherman, Reproductive Justice Organizer, Author, and Advocate • Listen to the audio recording from Friday Forum! • Meet Kellie Blanden, Director of Diversity & Social Justice Education • Meet Nick Sansone, Attorney & Public Citizen • Who We Are: GrandPrairieFriends • Meet the Speaker, Sarah Livesay • Macon County African American Heritage Trail | Home • Champaign County African American Heritage Trail • Cairo African American Heritage Trail • A@Y: BIENVENIDOS | On view through October 18 • SP26 Friday Forum + Conversation Café Resources • Celebrate Welcoming Week • Meet Rev. Ciera Bates-Chamberlain, Executive Director of Live Free Illinois • Meet Rebecca Hodsun, Associate Director International Education • Learn more about the Graduate Employees' Organization at UIUC • Daily Illini coverage of BIENVENIDOS opening • View the forum schedule. • Coming Soon! Downtown Urbana Mural • Where are the forums? • Missed the Forum? Listen here! • Connect with the Illinois Neurodiversity Initiative • Meet Dr. Stewart Coles, Department of Communication • Meet Reginald Hardwick, Illinois Public Media • Meet Jake Williams, Illini Media • Meet Aicha Chehmani, Community Engagement Strategist • Meet Emile DeWeaver with Impact Justice • Meet the Artist: Jameel Bridgewater • Meet the Artist: Stacey A. Robinson • Meet Clara Belitz, PhD student in Information Science • DEEP END - Art @ the Y Press Release • New American Welcome Center • FA25 Friday Forum + Conversation Café Resources • Audio Recording: Inclusion for All of Society, Sean Garrick • Audio recordings of the Spring 2025 sessions. • Learn more about the University of Illinois Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion • SP25 Friday Forum + Conversation Café Resources • Audio recordings of the Fall 2024 sessions. • FA24 Friday Forum + Conversation Café Resources • Audio Recording: Democratic Erosion, Saskia Brechenmacher • Learn more about the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace • Get to know the speaker: Saskia Brechenmacher • Audio Recording: Beloved Community, Dr. Allison Briscoe-Smith • Learn about the University of California’s Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center • Get to know the speaker: Allison Briscoe-Smith • Audio Recording: The AME Church Story, Rev. Dr Terrance Thomas • Learn more about the Bethel AME Church • Get to know the speaker: Rev. Terrance Thomas • Learn more about the National Immigrant Justice Center • Get to about the panel hosts: La Colectiva • Get to know the speaker: Diana Rashid • Get Your Tickets to See Plumas Negras at the Krannert Center • Art @ the Y: The Making of Illinois Theatre’s Plumas Negras by Juliette Carrillo • Learn more about the program: Plumas Negras • Get to know the panel hosts: Students for Environmental Concerns • Get to know the speaker: Jim Hinterlong • Get to Know the Project: The Art of Recreating Transnational Solidarity Against Global Apartheids • Get to know the panel hosts: Humane Urbanisms Project • Learn more about the Giniw Collective • Get to know the speaker: Tara Houska • Growing Racial Disparities in Voter Turnout, 2008–2022 • Legal Protections from Election Subversion and Voter Suppression • How Voting Laws Have Changed in Battleground States Since 2020 • Noncitizens Are Not Voting in Federal or State Elections — Here’s Why • Voting on Campus • Missed Sean's talk? Listen to the audio recording here. • Get to know Sean Morales-Doyle. • View the slideshow used during the forum. • Read the Champaign County Welcoming Plan • Get to know the panel hosts, the New American Welcome Center! • Missed the panel's discussion? Listen to the audio recording. • Missed Braver Angel's talk? Listen to the audio recording here. • Become an election judge. • Discover the many voting options. • Check your voting information. • Register to vote. • Learn more about elections. • We Were Made for This | Film Trailer • Missed Clerk Ammon's talk? Listen to the audio recording here. • Get to know County Clerk Aaron Ammons. • Learn about the speakers from Braver Angels! • Missed Harry & Marie's talk? Listen to the audio recording. • Get to know Harry & Marie. • Listen to The Middle podcast episodes. • Missed Jeremy's talk? Listen to the audio recording. • Get to know Jeremy Hobson. • Learn more about the documentary, Bad Faith. • Get to know Dr. Stephanie Thurston. • Get to know Dr. Leonard Cornell McKinnis II. • Get to know Pastor Michael Crosby. • Get to know Pastor Terrance Thomas. • Missed Steve's talk? Listen to the audio recording. • Get to know Dr. Steven D. Schwinn • BOOK LINK - The Certainty Trap: Why We Need to Question Ourselves More―and How We Can Judge Others • Get to know Dr. Ilana Redstone. • Get to know Provost John Coleman. • Return of the citizen National Civic Review May 16.pdf