is currently chair of the Difficult
Dialogues Committee and associate professor of sociology at DePaul University.
He is committed to applied change and social justice practices in the
areas of city and neighborhood/community relations, global race, class,
gender, and ethnic relations and appropriate technology and research
in "developed" and "developing" countries.
is a student organizer and activist that has participated
in several feminst, anti-racist, and labor related actions both on and
off campus. He is currently a fifth year double music major and Asian
American Studies minor who is particularly interested in the hegemonic
uses of language upon identities of historically marginalized groups,
particularly in ethnic and racial formations as well as the use of the
arts as a mechanism for social change and action.
is
a priest and member of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians)
serving in the Office of Institutional Diversity & Equity. His background
is theological ethics and praxis. He focuses on religious diversity
and inter-religious dialogue, particularly as these relate in practice
to the mission and life of a Catholic university.
is a member of the philosophy department and directs the
African & Black Diaspora Studies Program. He teaches and conducts
research in the areas of political philosophy, aesthetics, and race
theory. He is interested in the ways in which philosophy's project of
modernity contributed to the idea of race as well as the ways in which
race is at work in modern and contemporary political theory and aesthetics.
He is also interested in the tensions created by the confluence of Black
diasporic thought with the major texts, arguments, and cultural practices
of modern political and aesthetic theories.
is a
faculty member and director of Women's and Gender Studies at DePaul.
Her work focuses on individual and collective resistance to abuse, mistreatment,
and violence, both interpersonal and state violence, that is fueled
and perpetrated by interlocking systems of sexism, racism and white
supremacy, homophobia, and xenophobia. She is interested in projects
that cultivate community accountability for oppression and violence.
studies
the intersections between criminal justice policies and processing,
mass incarceration, and the production and maintenance of White Supremacy
in the post civil rights United States. Outside of her teaching and
research, she has done a variety of queer, feminist, and anti-racist
activism; currently, she is intimately involved with Chicago Books to
Women in Prison.
is
a graduate student in the Women’s and Gender Studies program.
She is the Anti-Violence Peer Education Coordinator at DePaul, and is
working to address issues of violence, oppression, and hate speech through
engagement with models of community accountability. In addition to her
commitment to anti-violence work that engages multiple systems of interlocking
oppressions on campus, she is also a committed activist and organizer
in the city of Chicago.
"ABOUT US" -- A Note
The college/university campus climate throughout the
United States and at DePaul University has become uncomfortable as hate
crimes and hate speech has increased with little regard for the victims.
As a result, there are members of the Difficult Dialogues Committee
who have chosen not to name themselves for their safety and because
of their fear of being targeted as 'liberal,' 'progressive,' 'radical,'
'militant,' and/or 'communist' because of their views on issues related
to Difficult Dialogues.