Event Details
Join us for a special workshop entitled, Kinwork: Anti-racism, Anti-facism, and How to Organize Our Families, led by organizational steward, scholar, public educator and facilitator Dr. Saudi Garcia. Co-presented by MoCADA
Event Details
Join us for a special workshop entitled, Kinwork: Anti-racism, Anti-facism, and How to Organize Our Families, led by organizational steward, scholar, public educator and facilitator Dr. Saudi Garcia.
Co-presented by MoCADA in collaboration with Brooklyn Public Library as part of their celebrated University Open Air program, in this workshop Dr. Saudi Garcia will guide us through political topics like immigration, anti-Haitianism, anti-Blackness and far right conservatism and how to approach them with your family and friends. This workshop offers communication, well-being, mental health, and organizing strategies to influence those around you towards action.
WHAT: Presented by Brooklyn Public Library University Open Air x MoCADA
WHEN: Friday, April 25 @ 11am – 1pm
WHERE: MoCADA Culture Lab II + Cafe, 10 Lafayette Avenue, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, NY 11217
This learning experience is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required.
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About Dr. Saudi Garcia is an organizational steward, scholar, public educator and facilitator. She is the Director of the Freedom and Justice Institute and of the Dominican-Haitian social justice, peace and liberation organization In Cultured Company. Dr. Garcia is a graduate of Brown University & New York University, where she trained as an anthropologist of race and science, technology, medicine and society (STMS). She is also a former Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The New School’s Department of Anthropology (2022-24). In May of 2024, Dr. Garcia publicly resigned her Assistant Professorship in protest over her university’s violent response to student protests over the war in Gaza and the deterioration of labor conditions in higher education institutions. Her current project, FAJI, seeks to study & organize against those conditions. Dr. Garcia’s scholarship traces Caribbean geographies racial capitalism, toxic pollution, & climate catastrophe and their alternatives: Abolition democracy & BIack and Indigenous feminist traditions of earth stewardship. Her ongoing book project theorizes how Haitian & Black Dominican decolonial traditions inform present struggles against environmental racism, racialized social exclusion and extractivism on the island of Ayiti. She enjoys surfing, cooking, reading novels, & spending quality time with friends and family.
About University Open Air, a collaborative effort of the Brooklyn Public Library and the Prospect Park Alliance, provides immigrant teachers and professors an opportunity to share their knowledge with the public by welcoming students with open-level and free classes. This ongoing program occurs bi-annually every September over the course of two weeks and for a shorter spring residency at one of the library’s branch locations.
Your professors will be teachers, researchers, professionals, and academics educated at institutions around the globe, and they’ll teach courses in the social sciences and humanities, as well as other disciplines. We aim to offer a platform for the talent and wisdom in the life stories of New York’s local immigrants who might not otherwise have the opportunity to teach in the US.
University Open Air is a space for you to gain knowledge and experience in dialogue with a community of thoughtful educators and fellow students. Here, your desire to learn will be acknowledged and celebrated, regardless of immigration status.
University Open Air is presented by Brooklyn Public Library and is generously supported by The Morris & Alma Schapiro Fund.
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MoCADA Culture Lab II + Cafe
10 Lafayette Avenue