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FQT/GSWS Affiliated Faculty Member Dalmacio Dennis Flores' work is featured in the Almanac's series, Talk About Teaching & Learning. Flores' piece, titled "Classroom Inclusivity: Lessons Learned and Strategies Moving Forward" pulls from Flores' experiences in the Department of Family and Community Health at Penn Nursing. He received the Department Award for Exemplary Teaching in May 2021 and received the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women Award for Undergraduate Advising in fall 2021.

FQT/GSWS Board Member and Weitzman Assistant Professor Akira Drake Rodriguez recently co-authored a piece in The Metropole on the Racialized History of Philadelphia's Toxic Public Schools. The long-defunded Philadelphia Public School system has been in the news in recent years for issues related to environmental health.

The GSWS/FQT community congratulates GSWS major Emily White on being named editor-in-chief of 34th Street Magazine. You can read the first issue of 34th Street published under their leadership on the 34th Street website.

In an interview with MSNBC, PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts discusses bell hooks’ influence on feminism. “[hooks] was honest, she was fierce, she was courageous, but everything stemmed from her motivation of love,” Roberts says. “She felt that love had to be the basis of justice and there could be no justice without love, and no love without justice"

Senior Chinaza Ruth Okonkwo is one of two UPenn students named 2022 Marshall Scholars. Okonkwo is majoring in philosophy and history and, in addition to pursuing a GSWS minor, is also minoring in Africana Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies. Read more about Okonkwo's future plans in Penn Today.

Ten years after the Occupy Wall Street protests began, Core Faculty Member & FQT/GSWS Board Member Jessa Lingel Reflects on the movement. Read more about her reflections, and her course on the subject, in Penn Today.

FQT/GSWS board member and Stuart Weitzman School of Design assistant professor Akira Drake Rodriguez was recently featured in Penn Today, where she discussed her work collaborating with local community organizations on projects that can help improve underfunded educational facilities in Philadelphia. Read the full article at Penn Today. 

Professor Dagmawi Wobshet recently reviewed Sarah Schulman’s Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 for The Atlantic magazine. Wobshet will be participating in FQT's World AIDS Day event The Art of AIDS on December 1st at 1 pm. Visit our events page to learn more and register.

GSWS Core Faculty Member Serena Mayeri spoke to the "devastating short- and long-term consequences” of Texas abortion law SB8, which came before the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month. Read the full story in Penn Today and Penn Law News.