PAID summer internship opportunities Rising Juniors & Seniors (& some Grads) of ALL MAJORS!!! These paid summer internship opportunities are open to students of all majors from every institution in Maryland, as well as Maryland residents attending school out of state.

The application opens NEXT Wed., December 1st, 2021.  Get a head start over break - connect with your recommenders and begin your personal statements.

Colleagues, please share with your networks!!!! For more info, see the flyer below and/or website.
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From Mindi B. Levin, MS, CHES ® | Founder and Director

SOURCE | The Community Engagement and Service-Learning Center

Johns Hopkins University Schools of Public Health, Nursing, and Medicine

615 N. Wolfe St., Suite W1600,  Baltimore, MD  21205

P. 410-955-3880 | E. mlevin@jhu.edu:


We are searching for our next team member to join JHU SOURCE, the community engagement and service-learning center for the health professional schools. We’d love to find someone who has Baltimore roots and is already connected to the community, experienced with working with students, and committed to social justice. Please forward to any interested colleagues and help us find another amazing person to join our efforts. Priority application deadline is Sun, December 12, 2021. Thanks so much!

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Come join our team at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) SOURCE, the community engagement and service-learning center for the JHU health professional schools (Public Health, Nursing, and Medicine). 

We are hiring for the role of Assistant Director (Co-Curricular Programs). The Assistant Director supports the growth and effectiveness of community involvement initiatives. The Assistant Director works closely with students and student leaders, and assists them in developing community outreach skills, exploring and understanding social justice issues, accessing community service resources, and making connections to the Baltimore community, particularly as it relates to students’ future roles as health professionals.

The Assistant Director is expected to model and encourage involvement in the community and effective program planning.  All responsibilities require close collaboration with SOURCE’s Director and staff, students and student leaders, student governments, Student Affairs deans, campus colleagues, and community-based organizations.

 

The Assistant Director functions as a counselor/educator; providing programs and services that embrace the values of social justice, citizenship, ethical decision-making, diversity and service to others. Specifically, the duties include: counseling, educational program management, event planning, advising, and community partnership coordination.

Apply online at: http://jobs.jhu.edu, requisition #70843. Please include both a cover letter and resume or CV.
Starting salary range:  $50,000 - $65,000 (commensurate with experience).
Priority application deadline is Sun, December 12, 2021.

Full job description and online application information is available below:


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If any questions, please contact Nyla Howell, nhowell1@umbc.edu or Kasey Venn at kasven1@umbc.edu.
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The event is virtual and RSVP and Registration Information will be available at
https://cge.umbc.edu/iew/ (scroll down to today's date)

This panel will provide a brief overview of the recent history of Afghanistan, including the 1979 invasion of the Soviet Union, the 1989 withdrawal and consequent civil war, the 1995 takeover of the Taliban, their defeat in 2001 by the U.S. and coalition forces, and the following 20 years of ongoing war in Afghanistan from which the U.S. withdrew in late August.  Afterwards, the panel will begin an open discussion about current issues facing Afghanistan today.
Panelist Information:
Zareen Taj is a doctoral student in language, literacy, and culture.  She is an Afghan women's rights/human rights activist, who came to the U.S. during the first reign of the Taliban.  She has shared research in conferences, given speeches, and has written numerous op-eds about Afghanistan.  Taj has made frequent personal and professional trips back to Afghanistan since 2004.  She was the first Afghan woman who visited five massacre sites.  Taj interviewed the survivors of the Taliban Massacre, produced a video documentary about her journey, and wrote the book Journey to Empowerment: Women After Taliban.
Noor Zaidi, assistant professor of history, has done extensive field work in Pakistan and with Shia clerics and activists in Iraq after the collapse of the Saddam regime.  She is a scholar of Middle Eastern History with a specialization in Iraq, Syria, and Pakistan.  Her current research focuses on the construction of sacred space in Shia Islam.  After the collapse of the Saddam regime, Iraq worked to create a new identity, positioning itself as the center of the Shia world.  Dr. Zaidi's research covers this transformation, working to understand the effects of these changes on faith and culture.
Anne Brodsky, professor psychology, has spent extended periods of time in Afghanistan and Pakistan throughout the 2000s.  Her work centers around the risk and resilience of Afghan women with a focus on Afghan women's communities and activist organizations.  Brodsky studies individual and community level resilience and the role of communities, psychological community, and cultures in creating and resisting societal risks, including community violence, poverty, racism, sexism and other oppressions.
Moderator: Christine Mallinson, director of UMBC's Center for Social Science Scholarship and professor of language, literacy, and culture and affiliate profesor of gender, women's, and sexuality studies.
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There are several types of positions available with The Choice Program at UMBC, to include:
  • a 6-month, $25/hour position doing job placements with youth (Choice Jobs Program Contingent I, description attached)
  • year-long AmeriCorps positions throughout Maryland, across three different programs (Intensive Advocacy, Jobs Readiness, and Education)
  • Tech Program Coordinator (Choice Jobs, starting salary $50,000)


A segment of The Choice Program's Anti-Racism Statement:

In this moment, we are being called forth and into action. Amidst a pandemic of racial and police violence, we feel the weight of hundreds of years of white supremacy and, especially, of war on the Black body. Our action and response is this: anti-racism.

Anti-racism is resistance and action. Anti-racism is love. Love for ourselves, for each other, for our children and young people. Anti-racism is recognizing that the violence waged on Black bodies may be in the spotlight today but is not new. Anti-racism is knowing that the reason our hearts are on fire is that our nation fails to honor the lives of people of color as precious.

This is the work we do every day, and now with an even greater urgency. Anti-racism is continuing to create opportunities for young people to engage during this time. We will continue to show up: in connecting through moments of joy, moments of tears, rage and mourning. We will create spaces for art, expression and learning.

For more information, go to:

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The UMBC Community Read for fall 2021 and spring 2022 is We Speak For Ourselves by D. Watkins, a Baltimore-based author, teacher, and speaker. We invite all UMBC and surrounding Baltimore area community members to participate in our events based on themes discussed in this important book.

In collaboration with the Center for Democracy and Civic Life; Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation; and Montgomery College, our initial event is a combined workshop and panel discussion on the theme of telling our stories, youth literacy, and social and racial justice. The event will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 2nd, 4:30-6:30 via WebEx.

We will start the event with facilitated storytelling in small groups. After the small group activity, we will come back together and hear from both UMBC and Montgomery College community members about the power of sharing our stories. This event is the first event in a series leading up to our keynote with the author, D. Watkins, in the spring.

Attendees will be entered in a drawing for a free copy of We Speak for Ourselves and learn more about our Essay/Multimodal Contest associated with the book!

This event features Eric Ford, Director of The Choice Program at UMBC, and Haleemat Adekoya, a UMBC Student in the Governor’s Summer Internship Program (GSIP), and former Shriver Living Learning Community member.

To RSVP and join the on-line event, go the UMBC Community Read myUMBC group link below:

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UPDATE!!!! THANK YOU to everyone who donated and shared! You all are amazing. We've raised enough to cover ALL 8 of the humanitarian parole applications. I'm going to raise the fundraising limit to and see if we can't start raising funds for some of the visa applications and plane tickets for Zareen and Ali's family members.

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Zareen and Ali are dear friends and colleagues of many of us and we know that they work tirelessly to advocate for the rights of people from their country of origin, Afghanistan. Both Zareen and Ali come from an ethnic minority group in Afghanistan, the Hazara, who have been brutally targeted by extremists; Zareen has written extensively on the issue for Ms. Magazine and other outlets.

At the present, Zareen and Ali are working to help bring 8 family members from Pakistan here to Baltimore. These family members have already survived harrowing ordeals to leave Afghanistan. They left Afghanistan with nothing. Zareen and Ali are the main financial supporters of them right now. While Zareen and Ali have been able to get pro-bono legal counsel for these family members, they want to file Humanitarian Parole forms to bring them here to the United states. The fee for each applicant is $575.00. Right now, They need help to cover the fees to file the Humanitarian Parole applications and for them to get visas. Eventually, each of the 8 family members will need a plane ticket to come to Baltimore and some support locally while they get settled and find work. All 8 of the family members are in danger because of their ethnic minority status and several were also being targeted because of aid work they engaged in while in Afghanistan.

Let's show Zareen and Ali our care and support by helping them to raise the funds they need to safely bring their family members here.

View the website here to donate.
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In music, science, and theatre classes, in research labs, in conservation efforts, and almost every corner of academia, there’s a growing awareness and dedication to community-engaged scholarship. How are different disciplines training up social justice-minded students to do no harm to the communities they work in? With one thriving relationship at a time.
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Over the past year, the violence against the Asian and Asian American community has significantly increased, specifically with targeted violence to East and South East Asians. This anti-Asian climate cultivated an environment that resulted in a brutal mass murder two weeks ago that targeted Asian-owned businesses and resulted in eight people killed, six of whom were Asian women. The growing number of hate crimes and bias incidents impacting Asian communities are echoes of a long history of xenophobia and systemic racism. 

Please join us virtually on Friday, April 2nd from 3:00-4:00pm EST, as we are holding a processing and healing space for Asian and Asian American students and their allies. All are welcome and encouraged to join in whatever mode they feel most comfortable with (i.e. video on or off, muted/unmuted, chat only, etc.).


This will be a student-centered space for finding words to describe our experiences on the impact of the violence in Atlanta and the exacerbated anti-Asian climate over the past years and historically, listening to each other’s stories, and advancing community connection through solidarity and coalition. 


The beginning portion of this program will be a larger community dialogue and then we will hold breakout rooms for affinity groups (e.g.,breakout rooms for Asian and Asian American identified communities members and for Allies). 


A link for this meeting will be via Google Meets. You must be signed in to a Gmail account and/ or your UMBC email in order to access the meeting. 


Or 


Join by phone


1-956-752-6434 

 

PIN: 559 259 736#


PLEASE NOTE: This brave space is not intended for debate or therapy. Rather, this event is meant to provide intentional supportive space for UMBC community members to process and share their thoughts, emotions, and reactions. 


UMBC is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for all students, staff, faculty, and visitors. If you have difficulties accessing any of the materials on our site or any of our events or discussions, please contact us so that we can provide an alternative format and/or remedy any accessibility challenges.


For more information, please email us at i3b@umbc.edu or  womenscenter@umbc.edu 


This solidarity space is a collaborative partnership between Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion, and Belonging (i3b), Women’s Center, Counseling Center, Asian & Asian American Faculty & Staff Council (AAAFSC) and UMBC student leaders. 

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