UNC-Chapel Hill to Host DACA Week April 16-20, 2018
April 12, 2018
UNC Global Affairs
Transgender and immigrant rights activist Jennicet Gutiérrez will give the keynote lecture for DACA Week on April 19, 2018.
The inaugural DACA Week will take place April 16-20, 2018 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The goal of DACA Week is to highlight issues surrounding documentation as well as to provide a platform for discussion regarding ongoing concerns of citizenship.
Events include reading groups and a community panel with Tina Vasquez, immigration reporter for Rewire News; Stephanie Elizondo Griest, associate professor in the English and comparative literature department and author of All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands; Viridiana Martinez, member of local organization Alerta Migratoria; and poet Jose Romero. Transgender and immigrant rights activist Jennicet Gutiérrez, community organizer with Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement, will give the keynote lecture April 19 at 6:00 p.m. at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center Theatre.
Visit Carolina’s Undocumented Student Resources website for more details and the complete list of events.
DACA Week is co-sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies, the Latina/o Studies Program, Undocumented Student Resources Team, Carolina Union Activities Board (CUAB), UNC-Chapel Hill’s Graduate and Professional Student Federation, UNC-Chapel Hill LGBTQ Center and UNC Sexuality and Gender Alliance (SAGA).