Exercise your First Amendment Rights –  learn to amplify your voice and cultivate community engagement.

Workshops will introduce strategies for creating change within your community.

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If you are a high school student, click here to register for the event

Agenda
9:45  Check in
10:00  Welcome
10:15-12:15  Strategies Workshops (Western Oregon University, Health and Wellness Center Room 203)
12:30-1:30  Plenary “Free Speech and Social Justice” (open to the public) – Western Oregon University, Werner University Center, Columbia Room
1:30-2:00  Wrap-up

Plenary Speaker Biography
Dr. Shannon Stevens, associate professor of Journalism and co-director of Creative Media at California State University, Stanislaus, will be presenting “Free Speech and Social Justice,” a talk that examines the role of the First Amendment on campus and in public life as we work together to change our world for the better. Dr. Stevens’s perspective on free speech spans her 15 years of experience as a working journalist and the 15 years that have followed in academia. Her research incorporates mediated communication, particularly the ways that journalism affects policy and culture, with a focus on who gets to speak—and who does not. As the adviser of her campus’s online student newspaper, the Signal (csusignal.com), Dr. Stevens serves as both promoter and protector of student journalists’ free speech rights. Ultimately, Dr. Stevens strives to guide students toward an understanding of the First Amendment as an accessible, actionable right inexorably intertwined with democracy and social change.

Order your free lunch

Little Lois Info:
Step 1 – Click: MyBagLunch.com
Step 2 – Enter Group Order Number: 45311
Step 3 – Order Your Lunch!  Your lunch is paid up to $15.00, if you go over you can pay the difference via credit card.
Step 4 – Make sure to order by our cutoff time: 5/10/24 @ 10:15 AM

For more information, contact Dr. Mary Pettenger pettengm@wou.edu  503-989-9909