The writing of Haitian authors Edwidge Danticat & Évelyne Trouillot have "opened new worlds, helped us to recall old ones, & they have insisted that we imagine ones that may not yet exist," - Moderator Régine Jean-Charles.
"Two Red House Finches Flying Through the Aspen Trees" - birdsong, flight, movement of sun & wind made colorfully, joyfully visible by artist Mike Glier, Williams College Professor of Art.
President Maud S. Mandel, VP for Institutional Diversitiy, Equity & Inclusion Leticia S.E. Haynes '99, Davis Center Director Eden-Reneé Hayes, Prof. Carmen Whalen, Mohammed Memfis '21 & Dominic Madera '21 describe the Davis Center Initiative to foster a more inclusive environment to benefit the entire community.
Claiming Williams Panel: On the Frontlines of Inequity: Williams Alumni in DEI with Ali Michael '00, Sabine Chishty '12 and Sharifa Wright '03.
Ericka Hart is a black queer femme activist, writer, & award-winning sexuality educator. Hart’s voice is rooted in leading edge thought around human sexual expression as inextricable to overall human health & its intersections with race, gender, chronic illness & disability. The theme for Claiming Williams 2021 is “From Racial Injustice to Restoration.”
