When: Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Where: U-FLi Center Room 520

Time: 5:30-7pm

Have you ever considered taking time away from Brown? Ever wondered what you would do while you were gone, how it would affect your financial aid, or how to talk about it with your loved ones? The U-FLi center, in collaboration with the Curricular Resource Center is hosting a conversation about leavetaking with U-FLi students who have been on leave before. Find out about what leavetaking can mean for you. Food will be provided!

When: Saturday, November 9, 2019

Where: U-FLi Center

Time: 1-4pm

First Gens@Brown, Project LETS, and the U-FLI Center will be hosting a Fifth Floor takeover as part of National First-Generation Student Day where we’ll collectively explore what it means to thrive as U-FLI & neurodivergent students. Join us as we facilitate a conversation over lunch with current undergraduate students and Peer Mental Health Advocates (PMHAs) about what thriving looks like for them and their communities. Directly following the panel, we will have self-care stations where students can begin practicing healing as a form of thriving.

The stations will include:
-Guided Meditation
-Stress Ball Making
-Movie Watching
-Face Masks
-Snack Pack Making
And More!

Be sure to RSVP so we can ensure that we have enough supplies and food!

Panel Time: 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Activities: 3 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Location: Scili, 5th Floor Room 520

When: Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Where: UFLi Center Room 520

Time: 12-1:30pm

CareerLab has invited MissBeHelpful (Yanely Espinal, Class of 2011) for an evening conversation on finances. Yanely was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and is one of the first in her family to graduate college. After two decades of school, she still can’t believe that she never had a class about making smart money decisions! Now, she’s on a mission to help young people learn financial literacy in a fun and engaging way!
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After completing Teach For America, Yanely paired her love for teaching with her passion for financial literacy, creating a unique YouTube channel for people to engage with topics like students loans, credit cards, budgeting, investing and saving for retirement. The U-FLi Center is happy to host an informal lunch with students hoping to connect with Yanely.

When: Friday, October 25, 2019

Where: Friedman Hall 208

Time: 5pm

Migration@Brown invites you to our second interdisciplinary conversation on migration research in theory and practice with Marjorie Orellana.

In this talk, Professor Orellana will provide an overview of research on immigrant youth language brokering over the last two decades, considering how understanding of the phenomenon has grown, and what we know about the competencies that youth both develop and display through this work.

Given the current sociopolitical context of growing xenophobia and cultural polarization:
What might we all learn from immigrant youth? How might we better leverage and support these skills in schools?

When: Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Where: Main Green

Time: 1:30-3:30pm

Calling all members of the community – Join us on October 22nd for the FOURTH ANNUAL #IStandWithImmigrants Day of Action! Over 170 colleges & universities are participating in this national campaign.

EVENTS:
-Take a photo with one of our signs and post it on social media with the hashtags #IAmAnImmigrant or #IStandWithImmigrants
-Reflect on your immigrant experience, or tell us how you support the immigrant community!
-Enter the raffle to win a FREE T-shirt
-Express interest in the university developing a Migration Studies concentration
-Help us “abolish” ICE!

ACTIONS:
-Call Congress & tell them to protect DACA recipients (fwd.us/action/call-for-dreamers)
-Tell Congress to protect legal avenues for ALL immigrants (fwd.us/immigration/legal-avenues)
-Tell Congress to create a pathway to citizenship for our 11 million undocumented immigrants
(fwd.us/immigration/pathway)
-Donate to AMOR Legal Defense Fund
(https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-amor)

Join us for music, community, and more!

When: Sunday, October 19, 2019

Where: Ward’s Berry Farm

Time: 1-4pm

Join the U-FLi Center & First-Gens@Brown in our trip to Ward’s Berry Farm (located at 614 South Main Street, Sharon, MA) on Saturday October 19th for a fun day of traversing a corn maze, hayrides, and other fun activities!

We will be bussing students from Faunce Arch at 1 pm, and returning to Faunce Arch by 4 pm. Costs for the transportation, the hayride, and maze will be covered by the U-FLi Center, but feel free to bring some extra money to partake in other activities on the farm. This event is limited to the first 30 students, and any submissions after the first 30 will be placed on a waitlist.

We are so excited to go on this adventure with you all!

This link will take you to Ward’s Berry Farm’s webpage, where you can find a full list of activities on the farm: https://www.wardsberryfarm.com/

When: Thursday, October 10, 2019

Where: Alumnae Hall, Crystal Room

Time: 5pm

Migration@Brown invites you to our first interdisciplinary conversation on migration research in theory and practice with Susan Bibler Coutin, Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, and Anthropology, University of California—Irvine.

The recent arrivals of Central Americans seeking to enter the United States have been construed as an immigration issue. What if these arrivals were instead understood as bearing histories of violence in which the United States is implicated?

To explore this question, this talk draws on the authors’ engaged fieldwork with Central American immigrants and their allies from the 1980s to the present. It suggests that current conditions forcing Central Americans to the United States are deeply rooted in past political, economic and legal violence. In particular, exclusionary policies have displaced individuals, families, and communities, who in turn have become enclosed within national or other spaces. Sanctuaries and caravans have emerged as a means of challenging spatial necropolitics.

When: Sunday, September 29, 2019

Where: Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship – Liz Lange Lecture Hall

Time: 1-2:30pm

DJ’s Sizzle Fantastic, UndocuBougie, and Funky Caramelo will engage in a communal conversation surrounding their experience as undocumented DJs along with presenting on the topic of the Undocumented Hustle. The interactive workshop will dive into; Business Startup and Planning 101, Sustainable and Collaborative Entrepreneurship and Nightlife Event Production as a form of resistance. Attendees will leave with key transferable skills which can be applied into their own business endeavors.

When: Saturday, September 28, 2019

Where: Brown Faculty Club

Time: 5:30-7:30 pm

Join the U-FLi Center for our kick-off event of the school year! This year’s welcome aims to amplify the voices and work of three undocumented womxn DJ’s: Sizzle Fantastic, Funky Caramelo, and UndocuBougie.

The DJs will spin their favorite hits as the U-FLi community connects and claims space at the Faculty Club. New and returning U-FLi students are especially invited to join us for an evening of food, music and resistance!