Hoyas for Others in Spring 2020
Mentor, Tutor, Lead, Serve, Advocate!
Social Justice Summer
Join CSJ’s social justice summer programs with full- and part-time FWS and volunteer opportunities, including housing or housing support.
Georgetown University will host 20th anniversary Justice in Jesuit Higher Education conference
June 3-6, 2020
The Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service (CSJ) opened its doors in January 2001. The Center has a mission that is simple to state but far-reaching in its implications: In order to advance justice and the common good, CSJ promotes and integrates community-based research, teaching and service by collaborating with diverse partners and communities.
Undergraduate Meets Society of Jesus Leader During Internship in Rome November 1, 2019
Martin Moreno (C’22) had a unique opportunity to intern this summer at the Jesuit Curia in Rome, where he met the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Arturo Sosa, S.J.
Georgetown Initiative Co-Hosts Rent Control Rally
October 28, 2019. About 15 Georgetown students joined a rally on Oct. 26 demanding the expansion of rent control in the District. A variety of unions, tenant groups, and other organizations, including Georgetown’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor (KI), hosted the rally at Lamont Plaza in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood to launch the Reclaim Rent Control campaign.
Students March in 1st National Period Day Rally
October 25, 2019 Georgetown University student organizations and clubs protested period poverty at the Washington, D.C. National Period Day Rally on Oct. 19. Period poverty refers to how economic factors can decrease access to menstrual products for certain individuals. The rally, organized by PERIOD, a global youth-run nonprofit that seeks to end period poverty and the stigma around menstruation, was held in honor of the world’s first National Period Day.
Flynn Coleman (SFS ’03) Discusses New Book at the Intersection of Human Rights and Technology
October 3, 2019. Flynn Coleman (SFS ’03) is many things: international human rights lawyer, professor, public speaker, activist, and entrepreneur. On Thursday, October 3, she returned to Georgetown as a published author and spoke in McGhee Library about her new book, A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Technology is Redefining Who We Are.
November 15
A conversation and reception in celebration of the new book Twice as Good: Leadership and Power for Women of Color by Dr. Mary J. Wardell Ghirarduzzi
Wolfington Hall, 3:30 PM
February 18
CSJ Social Justice Week: Race and Higher Education Annual Event – Professor Rhonda Magee
Copley Hall, 11:30 AM
June 3
Justice in Jesuit Higher Education 20th anniversary conference
Healey Family Student Center, 12 PM