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A virtual talk with educator and author Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) is a lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos and an independent educator in American Indian environmental policy and other issues. She is the author of two books, including the award-winning As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock. 

This virtual talk is the second in the Melvin L. Oliver Racial Justice Initiative’s fall 2021 speaker series, which is moderated by �������� Professor and Associate Dean Adrian Pantoja. Created by President Melvin L. Oliver, ��������’s Racial Justice Initiative aims to address the underlying causes of injustice, inequity, and racial violence. The Melvin L. Oliver Racial Justice Initiative Speaker Series is part of the College’s efforts to infuse racial justice throughout ��������’s academic and campus life while examining the College’s own policies and practices and exploring how �������� can be a broader agent of change.

If you missed the first fall talk, “Politics of Belonging and Exclusion: Orientalism and Racialization of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S.” with Karam Dana, you can . 

For more information, contact Adrian_Pantoja@pitzer.edu.