2018-2019 Welcome Back Potluck
On behalf of the Coalition of Latinx Scholars (CLS), we would like to thank you for your involvement with, and commitment to, our Welcome Back Potluck this year during Latinx Heritage Month. Considering the current sociopolitical climate, it is more critical than ever to find and develop spaces of comunidad where we get to know one another and break bread within an intergroup setting before we can begin to mobilize.
We'd like to give a special shout out and sincere thank you to our co-sponsors: the Office of Student Affairs (OSA), the Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME), the Office of Diversity and Community Affairs (ODCA), the International and Transcultural Studies Department (ITSF), as well as the Teachers College student groups - Rural Student Group (RSG), Black Student Network (BSN), and Queer TC. CLS recognizes the efforts and intersectionality of the Latinx identity and the allyship inherent within our various communities. This event would not have been possible without your support.
3rd Annual I Stand With Immigrants Action Day
On behalf of the Coalition of Latinx Scholars (CLS), we would like to thank everyone who stopped by our interactive exhibit, shared their stories, quotes, and messages in support of immigrants and immigrant stories, for the 3rd annual I Stand With Immigrants Action Day. Along with other 170 colleges and universities across the country, the Coalition of Latinx Scholars and Teachers College at Columbia University in the City of New York support immigrants and are crucial to our campus community.
We'd like to give a special shout out and sincere thank you to our co-sponsors: the Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME), the Office of Student Affairs (OSA), and the Office of Diversity and Community Affairs (ODCA) as well as our volunteers. CLS recognizes the efforts and intersectionality of the Latinx identity and the allyship inherent within our various communities. This event would not have been possible without your support.
3rd Annual Expresiones
CLS at Teachers College hosted the 3rd annual, Expresiones, an event that aimed to explore what it meant to be Latinx here and now through artistic expression. The event took place on Friday, November 2nd in the Grace Dodge Dining Hall. The theme was, Latinx: Xrossing Identity Frontreras, a reference to, and celebration of, Gloria Anzaldúa's "Borderlands/La Frontera":
"Our communities not only have historically and contemporarily crossed external physical geopolitical borders - across oceans and between lands - from one imagined nation to the next, but also fronteras imposed internally within our identity as Latinx."
On behalf of the CLS Board, we are grateful for everyone who came out to participate in our event. We want to give a huge shout-out to our performers, artists, volunteers, and our co-sponsors; the Office of Diversity and Community Affairs, the Office Student Affairs, and the National Art Education Association at Teachers College.
CLS and the Latina/o & Latin American Faculty Working Group at Teachers College hosted the 10th Annual Latinx Unity Dinner. This event sought to bring together faculty, staff, and students to foster a Latinx community on our campus, create professional networks, and served as an opportunity for faculty to support the success of Latinx students at Teachers College.
Our theme, Caminos in Academia: La Fuerza de Nuestro Legado, addressed the distinct and shared paths that Latinx academics embark in and the inherent strength that academics channell internally and from their communities in order to navigate new terrains: within ivory tower spaces. From being first-generation, to identifying as one of the few Latinxs within a lecture hall, we sought to pave paths within terrain that is both unfamiliar and not built for us. By bringing in our comunidad's funds of knowledge, and inherent resistance, we are able to survive and thrive within, and eventually through these spaces that were not initially designed with us in mind. Ultimately, our intergenerational heritage and our communities and families we build within these spaces continue our legacy of excellence.
Co-Sponsors: Vice President's Office for Diversity and Community Affairs, the Office of Student Affairs, and the International & Transcultural Studies Department at Teachers College, Columbia University
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