With Patricia Arroyos, UCSA Statewide Organizing Director,
Cristela Garcia Spitz, UC San Diego Library’s Digital Library Development Project Manager,
and Tamara Rhodes, UC San Diego Library’s Social Sciences Librarian and Living Archive Coordinator
Sponsored by the UC San Diego Library and the University of California Student Association.
Register online: http://bit.ly/crisistochange
Doors open at 1:45 pm
Refreshments will be served.
According to Maya Angelou, “the more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.” Knowledge of that history along with direct action organizing can oftentimes create significant change by making students aware of their own power in order to alter the existing power relations. In this two-part training, attendees will learn about the history of UC San Diego as it relates to current campus climate, social change, and activism through the Tell Us How UC It: A Living Archive project. It will be followed by concrete skills-building to learn the basic principles of direct action organizing. Students will learn the strategies, tools, and organizing math behind direct action that leads to victories for our communities.
This program will be part of a larger suite of programs compiled by the T+LC as part of their spring 2017 Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship program. Participation in any of these workshops gives credit on a student’s co-curricular record (CCR).
Speaker information:
Patricia Arroyos, UCSA Statewide Organizing Director
As Organizing Director, Paty serves as the primary advocate and support staff for the UC Undergraduate student campaigns. Paty helps students create and implement organizing strategies for successful UCSA campaign development. Paty earned her B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2012. During her time at Berkeley, she directed a student led organization on campus that focused on mentoring at-risk students in Richmond High School, providing the academic tools and resources needed for pursuing higher education. She was also heavily involved in canvassing for local grassroots campaigns such as Environment California and the Human Rights Campaign. As a Los Angeles native and first-generation college graduate, Paty is excited to return to the education sphere and empower students to become advocates for their own education.
Cristela Garcia Spitz, UC San Diego Digital Library Development Project Manager
Cristela coordinates between library and technical staff on projects to digitize materials in the library’s collections. Some examples include photographs from our Melanesian Archive and Baja California collections, experimental recordings from the Department of Music, all kinds of interesting stuff on Oceanography like kelp bed aerial photos
Tamara Rhodes, UC San Diego Social Sciences Librarian and Living Archive Coordinator
Tamara started at UC San Diego in August 2015 as an Instruction Librarian and became the Subject Librarian for Psychology, Cognitive Science, Human Development, and Linguistics in January 2017. In 2013, Tamara won the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Student Paper Award for her paper on living archives, which was subsequently published. This became the basis for the Tell Us How UC It: A Living Archive project. After attending the BGSA and GSA Race Relations Town Hall in April 2016, Tamara believed a living archive could be a way for the library to help support the social movements happening in the UC San Diego student community.
This event is free and intended for current UC San Diego undergraduate and graduate students. For questions or more information, please contact Tamara Rhodes, tlrhodes@ucsd.edu.
Parking Information
All visitors to the UC San Diego campus are required to display a valid parking pass. The closest parking to the Geisel Library is the Hopkins parking structure. More information about parking on campus.
Driving Directions from North of UC San Diego
1. Take I-5 southbound past the 5/805 split.
2. Take Genesee Avenue exit westbound (right off freeway).
3. Take Genesee Avenue to North Torrey Pines Road.
4. Turn left on North Torrey Pines.
5. Turn left on to North Point Drive.
6. Follow North Point Dr. through the stop signs; as it curves right it will become Hopkins Drive.
7. Continue on Hopkins Drive until you reach Voigt Drive.
8. The Hopkins parking structure is at the corner of Voigt Drive with entrances on both Hopkins and Voigt Drive.
Driving Directions from South of UC San Diego
1. Take I-5 northbound.
2. Take La Jolla Village Drive westbound (left off freeway).
3. La Jolla Village Drive turns into North Torrey Pines Road. Stay on it to North Point Drive.
4. Turn right on North Point Drive.
5. Follow North Point Dr. through the stop signs; as it curves right it will become Hopkins Drive.
6. Continue on Hopkins Drive until you reach Voigt Drive.
7. The Hopkins parking structure is at the corner of Voigt Drive with entrances on both Hopkins and Voigt Drive.
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