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Welcome

“Through this remarkable interdisciplinary cohort and in close collaboration with our partners, we have the opportunity to align our existing efforts, provide much-needed peer support, and cultivate new platforms for leadership training that nourish our campus as an antiracist environment,” said Nicole Stanton, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Professor of Dance, Environmental Studies, and African American Studies. “This project brings together faculty from Film, Economics, Dance, and Theater, community organizers working on housing discrimination, equitable access to arts experiences, and antiracism in the Middletown community, and guest artists who work in the realms of architecture and performance and their intersection with black liberation. Our Embodying Antiracism Think Tank will give these extraordinary individuals a place and a form for collaboration, study, and action.”

Wesleyan’s Embodying Antiracism Initiative Fellows shared stories about their work this academic year during the program’s Think Tank at their third and final salon this spring, held in the Library’s Smith Reading Room on April 20, 2023. Two previous salons–intimate, informal gatherings looking at works-in-progress and building community–were held in February 2023.

Across a series of intimate salons, the Fellows in Wesleyan’s Embodying Antiracism Initiative shared their creative works, ranging from documentary film, to memoir, to dance and music, all with the goal of fostering creativity—and challenging conversations.

An ambitious new interdisciplinary leadership training initiative supported by the Mellon Foundation looks to the arts as a catalyst for transformative change on campus and in the local community.