The Center for Urban Education is launching a new Food for Thought series to foster community, spark curiosity and lead to action on urban education — all with food provided at each session.

A session will be held once a month through May in Posvar Hall 4310 (CUE Commons Room). Register by clicking on the name of each session.  

Jan. 28, noon-1 p.m.: “Culturally Sustaining Education in Pennsylvania”

Speaker: Donna-Marie Cole-Malott, assistant professor of professional & secondary education, East Stroudsburg University and co-executive director of the Pennsylvania Educator Diversity Consortium

Feb. 4, 3-4 p.m.: “Bearing Witness: What Grief Teaches Us About Solidarity, Activism, and What We Can Do Now”

Speaker: Z Nicolazzo, associate professor, Educational Policy Studies and Practice; associate professor, Social / Cultural / Critical Theory – GIDP, The University of Arizona. Co-sponsored by the Pitt Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program and the Higher Education Equity Advancement Lab.

March 11, noon-1 p.m.: “Bangalore Girls: Witnessing the Rise of Nationalism in a Progressive City”

Speaker: Supriya Baily, pofessor in George Mason University College of Education and Human Development; co-director of Center for International Education

Co-sponsored by the Institute for International Studies in Education

April 15, noon-1 p.m.: “Youth Voices for Change: Improving Urban Communities Together”

Speakers: Esohe Osai, assistant professor, Pitt School of Education, and high school students from the Justice Scholars Institute

May, noon-1 p.m.: “Becoming the System: A Raciolinguist Genealogy of Bilingual Education in the Post-Civil Rights Era”

Speaker: Nelson Flores, professor at University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

For questions, contact CUE Administrator Emily Conklin at edc83@pitt.edu.