"Mondays in March" Series
Loyola Law School will offer programming to help strengthen our capacity for navigating difficult conversations, to enhance our understanding of the importance of seeking out opportunities to engage others with whom we disagree, and to provide greater context for the regulation of speech in education generally.
Monday, March 11
Paloma Bustos, MSW, and Ramona Merchan, DSW, MSW, LCSW, will help lay the foundation for understanding trauma and its impacts, trauma-informed skills and care, and self-regulation. Paloma is the Crime Survivor Services Program Manager of the Rights in Systems Enforced (RISE) Clinic; Ramona is the executive director of Trauma Informed LA and project director with the Los Angeles County Office of Child Protection. The event will run from 12-1 p.m. in Hall of the '80s.
Monday, March 18
Karen Stiller senior director of Jewish affairs at the Jewish Community Relations Council, and Maha Elgenaidi, founder and director of the Islamic Networks Group, will visit campus for an interfaith panel to discuss the roots, history, and impact of antisemitism and Islamophobia on Jewish and Muslim communities here in the U.S. and around the world. Lunch will be provided. The panel will run 12-1 p.m. in Hall of the '80s.
Monday, March 25
Constitutional law professor Justin Levitt will talk about the basics of First Amendment protections in the campus context. The talk will take place at 12 p.m. in Hall of the '80s. Lunch will be provided.
