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• PAEIC Events and Activities

  Community events for parents and adults by parents and adults to explore issues of equity and inclusion.
  
  

  2021-22 EVENTS
  Please email PAEIC@college-prep.org for more information.
  
  

  Wednesday, October 13, 6:00 - 7:30 pm 
  PAEIC Welcome and Equity Workshop with Dean of Equity and Belonging * Location TBD
  
  

  Tuesday, November 9, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
  Parents' Ally Day with No Place for Hate 
  
  

  Tuesday, December 14, 7:00 - 8:15 pm
  Supporting Gifted Students of Color with Dr. Frank Worrell
  
  

  Tuesday, January 11, Time TBD
  PAEIC Meeting: Administrative and Executive Planning
   

  Monday, January 17, MLK Freedom Day Center 
  MLK Day of Service
  
  

  Tuesday, February 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
  Meet with Student Equity Leaders
  
  

  Saturday, February 19, Time TBD
  PAEIC Intraterm 
  
  

  Tuesday, March 15, 5:30 to 9:00 pm
  Movie and Discussion
  
  

  Tuesday, April 12, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
  Parent Equity & Inclusion Book Discussion 

  
  

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  PAST EVENTS
  Presenters
  

  • Dr. Russell Jeung, Sociologist 
  • Kimberly Papillon, Esq
  • Sam Mihara, activist, presenter and writer
  • Samuel Maina, attorney and parent 
  • Gyasi Ross, award-winning author, activist and attorney.
  • Dr. Amer Ahmed, educator, facilitator, and consultant.
  • Victoria Kolakowski, lawyer and judge of the Alameda County Superior Court
  • Ameena Jandali, founding member, content manager and trainer for Islamic Networks Group
  • Melissa Johnson, award-winning filmmaker and writer
  • Linda Tillery, grammy-award winning artist, performer and educator

  Books
  

  • The Water Dancer: A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates's
  • We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A personal, eloquently argued essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah.
  • Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by JD Vance. A memoir about Vance’s Kentucky family’s Appalachian values and their relation to the social problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio.
  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A letter to the author's teenage son about the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being Black in the United States. The work takes inspiration from James Baldwin's 1963 The Fire Next Time.
  • The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. A historical study of the Great Migration that received the National Book Critics Circle Award. The book examines the movement of African Americans out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast and West from approximately 1915 to 1970, known as the Great and Second Great Migrations.

  Movies

  • Black Panther by Ryan Coogler. T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.
  • Love Simon by Greg Berlanti. Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends and all of his classmates; he's gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity.
  • 13thby Ava DuVernay. In this thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom. It is titled after theThirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which freed the slaves and prohibited slavery, with the exception of slavery as punishment for a crime.
  • Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity by Dr. Shakti Butler. From the director of “The Way Home: Women Talk About Race in America” and “Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible” , this film asks America to talk about the causes and consequences of systemic inequity.
  • Amazing Grace by Michael Apted. The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.
  • Selma by Ava Duvernay. A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.