Social Justice Residency Brings Students, Activists, Experts Together

The UWW Department of Interdisciplinary Studies hosted the 2024 Social Justice Residency Weekend on April 26 to 28, bringing together attendees at the UMass Amherst Center at Springfield and across the country around the theme "Good Trouble: Everyday Activism and the Pursuit of Justice." Students, community activists, and experts discussed what social justice means and how it is interconnected with daily life, addressing themes such as silence, erasure, and voice, knowledge and power, intersectionality, systemic oppression, various forms of violence as perpetuated against individuals and communities, as well as the ways that people resist injustices, build coalitions, and work to advance social change.

In its eighth year, the residency featured a free, public keynote address by Dr. Jallicia Jolly, Amherst College Assistant Professor of American Studies and Black Studies, titled "Justice in Practice: Black Women's Activism and Pathways to Social Transformation."