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There are more Explorer Café events coming up in November on a range of topics. Read more about them below:
Topic: Overcoming Gun Violence in Philadelphia: A Hope That Lights the Way!
Location: Holroyd Atrium
Time/Date: 12:30 (Universal Free Period)/9 November 2023
Summary: This Explorer Café will screen and provide an open discussion about the film, A Hope That Lights The Way, a community-based engagement process and a documentary that uplifts the impactful stories of people who have successfully overcome the numerous challenges posed by gun violence. The movie chronicles an ongoing narrative of progress and transformation.
Facilitators: Octavius L. Blount, Coordinator, Mayor’s Office of Black Male Engagement, and Jude Husein, ’20, Director of State Advocacy, Senate of Pennsylvania, Office of Senator Art Haywood
Topic: Food Insecurity, Homelessness and Poverty in America
Location: Holroyd Atrium
Time/Date: 12:30 (Universal Free Period)/Nov, 14 2023 – 12:30 PM (free period)
Summary: This café will present food insecurity on campus. Are students getting the food they need? Laura Frank, the founder of The Basket student food pantry and professor of nutrition, along with PHEED Philadelphia, student-led organization, will encourage a discussion of food insecurity, its impacts, and ways you can volunteer.
Facilitator: Laura Frank (Nutrition) and PHEED Philadelphia coordinators
Topic: Pardon Me: Your Rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness after a Criminal Conviction
Location: Holroyd Atrium
Time/Date: 12:30 (Universal Free Period)/Nov, 28 2023 – 12:30 PM (free period)
Summary: This Café will first feature a screening of the new documentary, Pardon Me (trailer here), produced and directed by Shuja Moore. The subsequent discussion will address whether people formerly convicted of a crime deserve to live in a second-class status, being denied access to employment, housing, parental rights, student loans, public office, and other opportunities. Options to remove this second-class status, including a pardon, will be explored.
Facilitator: Caitlin Taylor (Sociology & Criminal Justice) and Shuja Moore (local filmmaker)
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