Quarter at Aggie Square's Immigrants, Refugees, and Human Rights program launches in Winter 2022. Meet professors Jeannette Money, Jeffrey Kahn, and Mario Guerrero who will teach you about this critical topic at the intersection of political science, human rights, and California state politics.
Finding a Voice and Relationships in Art
Activism doesn’t have to have only one lens. There are different outlets you can have to do productive work and fight for liberation.
With Aggie Square making its home in Oak Park, an important part of Transformative Justice Studies is learning the neighborhood’s history and understanding the conditions shaping its future.
As students, we have all been affected by the history of our communities, our race, the language directed towards us, and our perceptions of justice or the lack thereof. Through our Transformative Justice Studies internship, we have a chance to bring those experiences to benefit the students at Oak Ridge Elementary in Sacramento.
We have created a caste system in this country, with African Americans kept exploited and geographically separate by racially explicit government policies. Although most of these policies are now off the books, they have never been remedied and their effects endure. -Richard Rothstein, p. XVII
