In the last year, over 3,800 reports were made to Stop AAPI Hate including the recent murders in Atlanta, majority being women of Asian descent. The surge in violence has continued to disproportionately impact community elders and women. The Asian American Studies Program and the Counseling Center would like to invite UMD staff and faculty to come together and be in community and connect, as violence toward Asians and Asian Americans continues. We will pause to take time to honor the targets of these crimes and process our own reactions.

Join the Maryland Smith community for a conversation with Smith alumnae, and former Maryland Lacrosse players, Leigh Burnside '92 and Taylor Cummings '16 as they discuss how they were able to take the skills learned on the field and in the classroom, and translate them into respective careers as businesswomen. The conversation with these two All-American lacrosse players and National Champions will be moderated by Smith alumna Donna Blackman EMBA '10, a past honoree of the Maryland Smith Women Inspire program. All are welcome to join us for this event.

Join Bias Incident Support Services (BISS) for a restorative circle centering our Asian American Pacific Islander communities. Given the continued and pervasive hate targeting AAPI folx across the country, we want to provide space for community members to process and be affirmed.

For the rest of this 2020-2021 school year, we have some executive position openings! If you are interested in running, please complete the form using the link below by the next meeting on March 29, 2021. Prospective candidates will provide a brief statement about themselves and their plans for the role before voting. Announcements will come after the meeting on March 30, 2021. It is never too late to join Migrating Shells. Visit our Facebook or Instagram.

A provocative and unique conversation with three panelists sharing the experiences and challenges they encounter as Black Neurodiverse Women on campus and in the workplace. Panelists will share their experience in hopes of hearing from you: share your truth, ask questions, raise awareness. The program is open to all students, staff, and faculty. Hosted by the University Career Center & The President's Promise.

While the events of 2020 have overshadowed many aspects of everyday life, you may not have had an opportunity in or outside class to process your feelings and beliefs about them. A university should be the ideal space to do this work, and the UMD Center for Health Literacy wants to provide that space for faculty and students during Spring 2021. Dr. Cynthia Baur of the Horowitz Center for Health Literacy and other UMD faculty and students will meet for biweekly virtual "teach-ins" or education and discussion sessions about the events of 2020, including the U.S.

SASA (South Asian Student Association ) & AASU (Asian American Student Union) are joining forces once again!! Join us on Thursday, March 25th from 6:00-7:00pm for a Chai Chat x Community Council crossover centered on the importance of acronyms within our communities. Titled "What's in a Name? The Significance of Asian American, AAPI, APIDA, and More"), during this event we'll discuss the differences between these acronyms, and how they contribute to our perceptions of our identities.

MICA and the Counseling Center will be holding a processing space for students.

The US has been embroiled in a movement for racial justice. Join a national leader in career-focused disability inclusion programming as she addresses the impact of this national reckoning on Black students with disabilities. 

In recent decades calls to decolonize curriculums, classrooms and minds grow more and more urgent. In this panel discussion, we take this conversation further—what does the work of decolonization actually require of us as instructors, scholars and leaders? What would happen if we saw higher education within the context of a long legacy of settler colonialism? And why has this language been so easy to co-opt? Join ODI's Diversity Training & Education team for the second installment of the Anti-Racism Toolkit programming series, “Transforming Knowledge to Action.”