6:30 p.m. November 1, 2018
Featuring Jess Campbell, Rural Organizing Project; Terri Givens, author and professor; Zakir Khan, Council on American-Islamic Relations—Oregon; and Laura Pulido, UO Ethnic Studies

Jess Campbell has been involved in rural organizing for more than 15 years. She has worked with some of the most rural communities in Oregon to fight for the commons from post offices to libraries, to organize and counterorganize in frontline communities reeling from vigilante and state violence and white nationalist organizing, and to advance experimental campaigns at the intersections of racial, economic, and social justice. She is co-author of Up in Arms: A Guide to Oregon’s Patriot Movement.

Terri Givens is an author, consultant, and political scientist. She is the author/editor of many books and articles on immigration policy, European politics and security, including her most recent book, Legislating Equality: The Politics of Antidiscrimination Policy in Europe (Oxford University Press, May 2014). 

Zakir Khan is the Board Chair for the Council on American-Islamic Relations - Oregon Chapter. His work as the Executive Director of the Transparency and Accountability Project earned national acclaim when it became one of two database projects nationwide to publish police disciplinary records. 

Laura Pulido is the chair of the UO Ethnic Studies Department and a 2018-19 Wayne Morse Resident Scholar working on a project titled “Cultural Memory and White Supremacy in the Creation of the United States.” She is a qualitative social scientist who works at the intersection of geography and critical ethnic studies.