News from the School of IAS
Category: Engagement
Ching-In Chen joins editorial board of Hyphen Magazine
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has joined the editorial board of Hyphen Magazine as a Visual Arts editor on the Arts and Culture team. Hyphen is a news and culture magazine, media outlet, and community partner that illuminates Asian America through ...
November 23, 2021
Minda Martin screens Ramps to Nowhere and engages in community discussion
IAS faculty member Minda Martin screened her essay film Ramps to Nowhere on November 15, 2021 to more than 350 attendees hosted by Front and Centered, King County Equity Now, Disability Rights Washington, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, 350 Seattle, Social Justice Film Institute, and Meaningful Movies. ...
November 22, 2021
Melanie Malone: community research on the Lower Duwamish Superfund
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone and colleagues from UW Seattle led a project to facilitate community research on the Lower Duwamish Superfund. The project, "Co-creating an Adaptive Community-Science Network: Supporting Tribal and Grassroots Action through the Puget Creek Watershed Assessment," ...
November 19, 2021
Alka Kurian remote-directs Tasveer South Asian Litfest
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian, currently on a Fulbright research trip to Morocco, remote-directed Tasveer's South Asian Litfest TSAL 2021. The festival was enabled thanks to a combination of technology – Zoom, Elevent, Slack, WhatsApp, FaceTime, and YouTube – and the tireless behind-the-scenes work of Tasveer staff and volunteers scattered across the world who ...
November 1, 2021
Testing soil for hidden contaminants in community gardens
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone's work on contamination in urban gardens and in the Duwamish Valley Research Coordination Network is featured on the UW News site. The story and video feature Malone teaching interns and community partners how to safely ...
July 28, 2021
Denise Vaughan appointed to Board of Directors for the Greater Seattle Debate League
IAS faculty member Denise Vaughan has been appointed to the Board of Directors for the Greater Seattle Debate League. The mission of the GDSL is to facilitate opportunities for underserved students to participate in Speech and Debate. Vaughan is a...
June 7, 2021
Sakara Buyagawan and Jung Lee receive Distinguished Accomplishments Award
IAS staff members Sakara Buyagawan and Jung Lee were honored for their extraordinary work and programmatic innovation to support international students impacted by the pandemic and U.S. immigration politics/policies. By coordinating coursework and campus resources, they ...
June 1, 2021
Ching-In Chen: What if?
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing & Poetics. In "My Story: What if," Chen reflects on their experience as a community organizer, having worked in Asian American communities across the nation.
May 17, 2021
LETI selected as 2021 IAS Outstanding Community Partner
The IAS Outstanding Community Partner award honors the extraordinary contributions of partner organizations. Recipients advance the IAS values of equity, inclusion, and social justice and link student learning and faculty scholarship to real-life experiences that positively impact our region and world.
May 6, 2021
Practicing social justice with Snohomish County
Students in the Master of Arts in Policy Studies program gained practical experience in a winter quarter partnership with Snohomish County’s new Office of Social Justice. As part of IAS faculty member Charlie Collin’s Practicum for Policy Studies course, the students worked on three projects: an assessment of marginalized communities; a comparison of strategies with other governments; and a survey of diversity, equity and inclusion among county employees.
March 26, 2021