Category: Newsletter

Dear CDF teams, It is the third week of March and (perhaps) Spring has finally arrived! This month, we’re highlighting the work from Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia: “Through a series of facilitated, collaborative discussions, Wesleyan College’s new Lane Center for Social and Racial Equity and our Community Partner, the Tubman Museum, are working with……

Dear CDF teams, Happy February! It’s been a while since we last connected via newsletter. This month, we’re highlighting the work from Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina: “The initial phase of [Spartanburg’s] community-campus partnership involves extensive information-gathering, focused on historic and ongoing harms against descendants of enslaved laborers in Spartanburg, South Carolina. These losses……

Dear team,As we begin to approach the end of the semester for many, we will keep communications light! It was great to convene all together last month—we hope you found the biannual convening of Crafting Democratic Futures Teams helpful and inspiring as we continue moving forward.This month we are reflecting on ways to decolonize and……

TEAM HIGHLIGHT As part of our internal Crafting Democratic Futures communications, we highlight one team’s story every month. This month, we’re sharing broadly the work of the Carnegie Mellon University team. “Pittsburgh’s ‘Democratic Futures’ project brings together college and university humanities scholars with community-based organizations and grassroots social activists to produce a comprehensive history of……

TEAM HIGHLIGHT As part of our internal Crafting Democratic Futures communications, we highlight one team’s story every month. This month, we’re sharing broadly the work of the Rutgers-Newark team. “Newark boasts an especially lively local-history community, and we are establishing a community research fellows component that will engage institutions and individuals whose research and archival……

TEAM HIGHLIGHT As part of our internal Crafting Democratic Futures communications, we highlight one team’s story every month. This month, we’re sharing broadly the work of the Concordia College-Moorhead team. “At Concordia, we believe that the most distinctive contribution we can make to the Crafting Democratic Futures project is to focus on research and restorative……