2025 Equity Symposium
The Wisdom of Stories
April 16 - 17
What can stories offer us during uncertain times? Stories provide a way to understand one another and make sense of our experience. Stories give us grounding and hope and can help us envision a future that is more just and liberated. Sharing our personal stories gives us a way to be known, seen, and understood as a remedy to isolation and loneliness. Stories allow us to transmit and preserve cultural knowledge. Stories can be told in a multitude of mediums, from creative expressions like visual and media arts, music, writing, and our fashion choices, to the stories we tell through scientific research and data. Join us as we use the wisdom of stories to fortify ourselves for the challenges ahead.
2025 Equity Symposium Schedule & Activities
Each year, the Equity Symposium creates space for our community to gather and engage in learning experiences focused on equity, belonging, social justice, and liberation.
Opening Plenary Session
Open to Evergreen students, staff and faculty only
Wednesday, April 16
10 am, House of Welcome
Stories that Fortify: An interactive story sharing experience to build grounding, hope, and connection. Facilitated by Dr. Leticia Nieto.
This opening plenary session will explore storytelling through multiple modes: written, visual, and oral. Participants will be invited to connect to their own stories of grounding, hope, and connection and share them in community. Participants are encouraged to choose the mode and level of engagement that honors where they are coming from, moment to moment.
Lunch provided following the Opening Plenary Session
Workshops
Open to Evergreen students, staff and faculty only
Wednesday, April 16
1:30 - 3 pm, and 3:30 - 5 pm
Thursday, April 17
10:30 - Noon, 1 - 2:30 pm, and 3 - 4:30 pm
Keynote Speaker
Thursday, April 17
6:30 pm, COM Building Recital Hall
Open to the Public, Tickets Required. Supported by the Unsoeld Seminar Endowment with The Evergreen State College Foundation.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all life. She is the author of several books, most recently Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde and the award-winning Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. They are also the co-founder of the Mobile Homecoming Trust, an intergenerational experiential living library of Black LBGTQ brilliance.
The Equity Symposium Planning Team strives to center the needs of our diverse community by hosting inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have accessibility needs, please contact us at socialjusticecenter@evergreen.edu