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Save the date and join us for the first Humboldt Rural Tourism Summit on Monday, May 3rd, 11-1:30pm.

The goal of this summit is to get Humboldt hospitality stakeholders excited about rural tourism, and learn what works and how to collaborate on promoting tourism in rural areas. This summit will also be an opportunity to foster connections between the local Humboldt community and outside tourism professionals. REGISTER NOW!

Featured speakers are:

*Tami Reist, President & CEO of the Alabama Mountain Lakes Tourist Association
*Niki Brown, Program Director for Siskiyou Economic Development
*Julie Benbow, Executive Director of Visit the Redwoods

Facilitated by Annika Slattery.

Learn more about this project at Discovering Humboldt!

The California Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education (CA-NAME) invites everyone to participate in the 10th Annual Statewide Conference, "Abolishing the Colonial Project: Sharing, Examining, and Reflecting on our Practices" (flyer). The conference will be held online Saturday, May 1, 2021 9am-1pm. HSU is honored to share sponsorship with Merritt Community College who have been at the heart of the resistance against the colonial project by the Black Panther Party’s leaders Huey Newton and Bobby Seal. Keynote speakers include Dr. Bettina Love and Dr. Dulcinea Lara.

The conference theme expands on Althusser’s notion of the ideological and repressive state apparatus and Ruiz, Lara, and Greene’s (2018) argument that schools mirror a repressive state apparatus in order to sustain a colonial project. We seek contributions that value the spirit of resistance and organizing in order to dismantle the colonial project, and that honor the community cultural wealth of all peoples and practitioners dedicated to critical multicultural, ethnic studies education. Also, what can we do to change the curriculum to make it more liberatory?

Go to the ZOOM REGISTRATION LINK where you can choose one of the workshops and one of the dialogue circles. Full schedule is below:

• 9:00am - Welcome and Land Acknowledgement by Dr. Lilia Chavez and Dr. Marisol Ruiz
• 9:05am - Welcome by President Dr. David M. Johnson, Merritt College
• 9:10am - Spoken Word by Aminah Adcock
• 9:20am - Keynote by Dr. Bettina Love
• 10:20am - Workshops (breakout rooms)
  • #What's Normal Anyway? Exploring Stories by Restorying: The Power of Narrative: This paper examines the narrative of a first-generation Latina with a younger brother with a developmental disability. Being bicultural and of diverging “ableness,” their challenges in education stem from the same thing - an intersection of their cultural upbringing, identity, ability, and, dare I say… their unique brilliance? #whatisnormalanyway? Facilitated by Denia Bradshaw
  • Teaching Social Issues through Ethnic Studies: This presentation will provide a framework for understanding what Ethnic Studies means in terms of pedagogical processes, and what it can afford educators intent on addressing the logic of deculturalization. We provide concrete curricular examples of YPAR in the context of Ethnic Studies to think through how these courses approach anti-colonialism in the classroom and beyond. Facilitated by Miguel Zavala & Jose Paolo Magcalas
  • Teaching "One Crazy Summer by Rita Willams" to fourth and fifth graders: This presentation will provide frameworks and strategies to teaching about the Black Panthers through the literature book "One Crazy Summer” by Rita Williams Garcia.  Facilitated by Dr. Marisol Ruiz (HSU)
  • The Fight for Quality and Accessible Mental Health Services in 9-12: In this presentation we will give personal testimonials on the poor and punitive non existent mental health services we received in the different high schools throughout CA. We will share what we would like to see as an alternative. Facilitated by HSU PromotorX: Chelsea Rios Gomez, Jonni Segura, Milagros Ortega, Anayeli Auza, Angelica Alvarez, Martha Flores
  • Ethnic Studies Collectives: Sources of Truth-Telling, Regeneration, and Solidarity: Learn about the design, delivery, and outcomes of K-12 Ethnic Studies Collectives. With a focus on community building, Ethnic Studies frameworks, pedagogy, and resource sharing, these collectives welcome all educators and inspire hopeful outcomes for district-wide or site-based implementation. Facilitated by Ricardo Medina, Ph.D., Ratha Kelly, Brian Batugo
  • Ethnic Studies: An Anti-Colonial and Abolitionist Project: Using a critical race lens, the educator activists who against the neoliberal discourse that has systematically deconstructed the original draft of California’s framework and are now engaged in the construction of the “Liberated Ethnic Studies Curriculum” will describe how Ethnic Studies challenges colonial ideology, conversely constructing a BIPOC model of abolitionist teaching. Facilitated by Theresa Montaño, Members of The Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Coalition
  • Seeds of Resistance: Ethnic Studies Pedagogy in Elementary Classroom: This session applies an ethnic studies pedagogy across subject matter in the elementary classroom. An ethnic studies framework and examples of ways to develop and practice anti-racist, intersectional justice and community-grounded praxis in K-6 classrooms will be shared. Facilitated by Cathery Yeh, Gloria Gallardo, Nicky Meindl
  • Making Sense of Ethnic Studies Pedagogy in Emergency Virtual Environments: This research investigated how high school ethnic studies teachers made sense of their pedagogy in the context of the school closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings explore how critical pedagogy was adapted for the virtual realm, and how we might rethink educational priorities to support teaching and learning. Facilitated by Kay Flewelli
  • DACA: actualización y círculo de diálogo: Este taller proporcionará información sobre DACA y consistirá en un círculo de diálogo donde la audiencia puede compartir sus historias. This workshop will provide information about DACA as well as consist of a dialogue circle where the audience can share their stories. Facilitated by HSU PromotorX: Anayeli Auza, Jonni Segura, Keila Moran
  • Empowering Multicultural Students' Learning Through Cognitive Neuroscience and Gestalt Personal Development Principles: Dr. Rivas will share his practical teaching knowledge gained from 45+ years of research, teaching, and community work in empowering diverse students. emotionally, cognitively, and behaviorally to be successful in achieving cherished pesonal, academic, and career goals. Facilitated by Dr. Mario Rivas (Merritt College)
  • Healing the Healer and Our Students from Educational Academic Susto: Too often our educational spaces are sites of trauma particularly for students of color. Our formative interactions with teachers and other educational entities can also induce pain both consciously and unconsciously in the everyday process of schooling and further perpetuate systemic racism. Ironically, these same learning contexts can also serve as spaces for hearing. In this session, participants will consider the PUENTE Program as a healing model as we continue to work within students who have been deeply impacted by both personal and global unrest. Using storytelling, cuentos, poetry, and indegenous knowledge as praxis, participants will explore ways to embark on a journey of healing from educational academic susto both for themselves and for their students. Facilitated by Maria Figueroa, Isela Gonzalez Santana
• 11:10am - Keynote by Dr. Dulcinea Lara
• 12:00pm - Dialogue Circles (breakout rooms)
  • Creating diverse and inclusive curriculum: Thinking of the institution of schooling as a Repressive State Apparatus reveals the homogeneous nature of the curriculum, alienating and manipulating alternative experiences to further advance colonial perspective. This session will take the shape of a dialogue circle, in which we will engage in discourse regarding the whitewashing of the American curriculum. Facilitated by PromotorX: Elijah Moore, Veronica Perez, Syd Lyons, Josie Licavoli, and Jaycob Warren
  • Alternative learning in K-12 to Higher Education: Understanding the Struggles, Triumphs, and Setbacks of conventional learning: This Dialogue circle will focus on alternative educational model such as project based learning and how it was implemented in higher education. Are there other models that working better for college students? Facilitated by PromotorX: Georgina Rose Ruiz, Aiszellyn Alvarez, Elizabeth Owens, Gregorio Yarasca, Mia Page
  • Ethnic Studies grades K-2: This Dialogue Circle is a space where educators K-2 and community members will be invited to share their questions, how we center BIPOC voices, what tensions exist and what strategies reflect effective and successful implementation of authentic Ethnic Studies. Facilitated by Ruchi Rangnath
  • Ethnic Studies grades 3-6: This Dialogue Circle is a space where educators 3-6 and community members will be invited to share their questions, how we center BIPOC voices, what tensions exist and what strategies reflect effective and successful implementation of authentic Ethnic Studies. Facilitated by Tricia Gallagher, Susan Warren
  • Ethnic Studies grades 7-12: This Dialogue Circle is a space where educators 7-12 and community members will be invited to share their questions, how we center BIPOC voices, what tensions exist and what strategies reflect effective and successful implementation of authentic Ethnic Studies. Facilitated by Bryan Bowens, Marisol Ruiz
• 12:50pm - Closing by Dr. Lilia Chavez and Dr. Marisol Ruiz

Join HSU's Project Rebound and the Formerly Incarcerated Students Club for the 2nd Annual Reentry Forum: Let's Talk About Mass Incarceration (flyer) during the month of March.  In partnership with Sacramento State Project Rebound, The Yurok Tribe, and West Side Community Improvement Association, Root and Rebound: Reentry Advocates will be available with free legal advocacy for Humboldt, Sacramento, Lake, Del Norte, Mendocino and San Joaquin County residents.

Watch the highlight video (~7min) at Reentry Forum: Let's Talk about Mass Incarceration 2021 and click on a link below for a recording of an event, where applicable:

• Tuesday, March 2 @ 5pm: Healing Dialogue: Redemption, Forgiveness
• Tuesday & Wednesday, March 2 & 3, 10am-3pm: Root & Rebound Reentry Advocates
• Thursday, March 4 @ 5pm: RECORDING - Scott Budnick: Producer/Founder of ARC (1:00:11)
• Tuesday, March 9 @ 6pm: Liberate the Caged Voices
• Thursday, March 11 @ 6pm: RECORDING - Dr. Renee Byrd: Abolition Ecology (1:30:03)
• Tuesday, March 16 @ 6pm: RECORDING - David Haynie: Abolish Humboldt PD (1:25:15)
• Thursday, March 18 @ 6pm: RECORDING - Jimmy Santiago Baca (1:39:26)
• Tuesday, March 23 @ 6pm: Changing the Narrative
• Thursday, March 25 @ 6pm: Arts in Corrections: Pelican Bay
• Tuesday, March 30 @ 6pm: RECORDING - Colonization to Mass Incarceration (1:23:34)

For more information, see the Project Rebound webpage, the Formerly Incarcerated Students Facebook page, and their Instagrams (FISC, Project Rebound)

HSU's Native American Studies Food Sovereignty Lab and Cultura Workspace presents 3 free films as part of their free Food Sovereignty Film Series:

• March 5: Good Meat - Once a star athlete in his community, Beau LeBeau (Oglala Lakota) now weighs 333 pounds - an unhealthy weight which has triggered the onset of Type II Diabetes. His mother's untimely death from complications due to diabetes motivates him to drop the excessive pounds. Enlisting the help of a physician and nutritionist, Beau starts exercising and takes up a traditional Lakota diet of buffalo meat and other Native foods. (56 minutes)
• April 2: Return: Native American Women Reclaim Foodways for Health and Spirit - Roxanne Swentzell from Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico whose efforts to reclaim ancient foodways, are echoed across the continent by Tlingit, Muckleshoot, Oglala Sioux, Menominee, and Seneca women. At its heart, this film is about empowering people to overcome their current circumstances through eating as their ancestors did - nutritiously and locally. Return offers an approach to confronting the diabetes epidemic now rampant in Native American communities. (28 minutes)
• May 7: Gather - In traditional times, food in Indigenous North American communities was only as far away as the forest, plains, desert, sea, or garden in the village. Modern ways of life and challenges have taken us away or - in some cases - barred us from our food sources. But we, as Indigenous people, continue to return to our places of origin, including our food. Gather is that path, the story of the rebuilding of those food systems. Gather is an intimate portrait tracing the intentional destruction of Native American foodways and our renaissance and resilience, our inherent right, to reclaim it. (1 hour, 24 minutes)

Zoom opens at 5:30pm, films begin at 6pm. Register at hsu.link/foodsovlabmovie.

For more information, contact amanda.mcdonald@humboldt.edu.

Learn more about the Lab at nasp.humboldt.edu/fsl.  See recordings of past speakers at nasp.humboldt.edu/fsl/speakers-series.

Leena Dallasheh, Associate Professor in HSU's History Department, continues with Let's Talk about the Middle East film series and discussions beginning Friday, Feb. 4th at 5pm.

See the flyer for more information and register at the links below to receive the Zoom link to attend.

• Friday, Feb. 4 @ 5pm: The Tower (2018)
• Friday, Mar. 4 @ 5pm: 10 Days Before the Wedding (2018)
• Thursday, Apr. 1 @ 5pm: Zaatari Djin (2018)
• Thursday, Apr. 29 @ 5pm: Taxi (2015)

You can also check out their Facebook page for the most current information.

Are you interested in the tourism and travel industry? Apply to be an Atkinson Family Library Scholar Intern!

HSU Library is seeking two Library Scholar Interns to work as a team on a Tourism & Travel Project that runs from February to May 20, 2021. This paid internship provides a stipend of $500 upon the completion of the internship project, consisting of:

• Developing an exhibit May 5-11 and an event for National Tourism Day on May 7.
• Performing research and gathering information and data about tourism and travel for Humboldt County.
• Developing a resource guide.

Team roles and duties will be tailored to the talents and interests of the interns.

In addition to developing a resource guide, the Library Scholars will:

• Maintain an internship log, including experiences and challenges that they encountered over the course of their project. Meet together at least one hour each week.
• Perform research and interviews to gather resources, develop a resource guide and suggested resources on tourism and travel, eco- and edu- tourism, and other related resources.
• Gather information from a variety of sources - web pages, news sources, interviews, etc, - to understand the tourism and travel interests at HSU and in the region.
• Evaluate existing travel apps and how Humboldt County is represented.
• Write a brief reflection of the internship.

HSU students will work individually and as a team to gain hands-on experience researching, evaluating resources, and developing a resource guide of recommended readings for tourism and travel.

For more information or to apply, please send a brief resume, availability schedule, and brief cover letter expressing your interest for this unique opportunity to Cyril Oberlander, Dean of HSU Library at Cyril.Oberlander@Humboldt.edu by Friday, January 29, 2021.

The Library Seismic Retrofit is in the final stretch. The outside is done but there are a few more tasks to take care of inside including abatement and the addition of sprinkler systems and LED lights. Taking advantage of the building closure this spring, sprinklers will be added to the 1st, 2nd, & 3rd floors, and new LED lights will help to make the Library a brighter and more sustainable learning environment. Access Services (temporarily relocated in the ground floor Library 25) will continue to ship laptops, lab kits, and other resources to students during spring semester. Due to the abatement work, the Library’s print books, CDs, DVDs, and most periodicals will be unavailable between December 15 through approximately the end of February.

In January 2021, the Library will become a member of the HathiTrust. This service will provide ebook access to approximately 80% of the print books in our collection. Links to HathiTrust will be added to our library catalog, and we will provide SkillShops on the latest great resources available to you for spring semester. Additionally, we plan to continue to borrow books from other libraries and send them to you, subject to the available operations at the other libraries during the pandemic.

We are looking forward to our grand reopening of the HSU Library in the Fall of 2021 when we will be able to show you all the wonderful changes that have been made to improve the spaces and services.

Other news about HSU Library:

• We recently added 27 more etextbooks to the list of ebooks HSU Library subscribes to so students don’t have to purchase these textbooks. Check out our catalog to see if your textbook is free online @HSULibrary.
• By late December, a new book return box will be installed at the Library Circle since the book return at the main entrance will be closed during the sprinkler project. If you need to return items in other ways, please contact us. Equipment checked out to current and spring students will be automatically renewed and due May 28, 2021.

Please do not hesitate to let us know if you have any questions, or need assistance. Find ways to contact us at http://library.humboldt.edu/about/contactus.html or telephone 707-826-3431.

We wish everyone a wonderful new year and good health!

Cyril Oberlander Dean,
University Library

Join us Thursday, December 12th at 5pm for a pre-finals de-stress and have fun in a game of drawing and guessing what the word is. The game (skribbl.io) works best on a computer browser (you can play on a browser on your phone, but it's not formatted to fit the screen). During this session, you will also hear some tips from a librarian about where to get help for research, if you still need support, plus some other information that you might find useful while you finish your final assignments.

The Library was fortunate to receive ODEI grant funding this year to develop "a program of acquisitions that will enhance the Library’s collection of contemporary scholarship and creative works related to diversity, equity, and inclusion."  In the spirit of inclusion, we seek participation from across campus and welcome your recommendations for titles to purchase. Submit recommendations for books and videos through this Google form. Selections will be finalized in January and we will showcase the materials throughout the spring. Thank you for helping to create a more inclusive and diverse library.