Events Calendar

Jeff Guillory, WSU Director of Diversity Education, will discuss his experiences growing up in the Jim Crow south during the 1950s and 1960s, and the effect this system had on him at each stage of his formative years. It is a personal story that provides the listener with an immersion experience with hate and its […]

“At Night I Fly” is an internationally-acclaimed film about the New Folsom maximum-security prison in California. Its U.S. début was at the 2013 Fortnight Film Festival at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The website for the film says “…men at (New Folsom) let us see their world…(which is) less about dangerous […]

Carol Hinds is the parent of an inmate at California State Prison-Sacramento (New Folsom Prison) and has served as secretary on the prison’s Inmate Family Council for the past 14 years. Her son is serving a 25-to-life sentence through 2025. In addition to her work with the Council effecting policy change and supporting inmate families, […]

Sister Simone Campbell is the executive director of NETWORK, a national Catholic social justice lobby. She is a religious leader, attorney, and poet with extensive experience in public policy and advocacy for systemic change. She authored A Nun on the Bus: How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, and Community. In Washington, D.C., she […]

Terry Tempest Williams is called “the citizen writer” who speaks and speaks out on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. Common Reading Stamp available.

This is an interactive event intended to inform and educate the WSU community about a variety of social justice issues. Students enrolled in HD 205 (Developing Effective Communication and Life Skills) have been charged with using their creativity to engage others in better understanding a social justice issue about which they are passionate.  The drop-in event […]

Prison education programs have been shown to have positive outcomes. When education programs are implemented in prisons, inmates are significantly less likely to become repeat offenders and are more likely to find stable employment after release. Despite these benefits, the number of education programs available in US prisons has dropped from 350 postsecondary programs in […]

In the late 1960s, a new movement changed the lives of Latin American farm workers who fought for civil rights and decent working conditions. Living Voices brings this chapter of American history and the movement for greater justice to live by presenting one woman’s struggle to free her family and people from poverty. Free for […]

The Foley Institute is pleased to present civil rights icon James Meredith, who will discuss his personal experiences fighting for equal rights and his view of the struggle today. Meredith was the first black student to integrate the University of Mississippi in 1962.  In 1966, he was shot while leading the Mississippi March Against Fear. […]

Pullman Chief of Police Gary Jenkins and WSU Chief of Police Bill Gardner will discuss how law enforcement continuously evolves to meet societal needs and demands. Following a short history, the police leaders will talk about current events that have made international news and the role of technology, training, and philosophy in law enforcement. Common […]