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  • Reflections: Story Circles for Community Connection in Yolo

    By Imagining America

    April 8, 2025

    On March 18, 2025, Imagining America hosted a Story Circle in collaboration with our partners at the International House Davis. The result was an empowering hour and a half session, where deep listening and compassion were on display. In this blog post, we offer resources for IA members to hold their own Story Circles to unleash the power of everyday storytelling.

  • Imagining America’s Engaged Art Summit Sparks Connections and Creativity

    By Imagining America

    December 3, 2024

    Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life hosted 20 national student fellows from 17 IA member campuses in Davis, CA for an…

  • Democratically Engaged Assessment: Reimagining the Purposes and Practices of Assessment in Community Engagement

    By Imagining America

    November 13, 2024

    The 2018 white paper by the APPS Research Group offers in-depth exploration of the framework, thinking, and “found pilots” to support the model of Democratically Engaqed Assessment (DEA).

  • IA Book Club – Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

    By Imagining America

    September 23, 2024

    Tuesday, December 3, 2024: Imagining America invites participants across the network to join IA staff in reading Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal…

  • Reflections from Happening: IA Primary Day

    By Imagining America

    July 24, 2024

    Inspired and organized by IA Student Intern Rosalie Mendoza, IA Primary Day brought together students, scholars, parents, kids, teachers, and others in a…

  • Equitable Food Futures: Activating Community Memory, Story, and Imagination in Rural Mississippi

    By Imagining America

    July 11, 2024

    by Carlton Turner, Mina Para Matlon, Erica Kohl-Arenas, and Jean Greene “…Our work is comprehensive community cultural transformation. That is, the social and…

  • Call for the Next IA Campus Host

    By Imagining America

    June 17, 2024

    We are excited to announce the opportunity to become the next host of Imagining America in 2027. Following founding years at the University…

  • Meet IA – May Session

    By Imagining America

    February 8, 2024

    Wednesday, May 22, 2024 1:00-2:00pm Pacific / 3:00 – 4:00pm Central / 4:00-5:00pm Eastern Meet IA sessions are open to everyone and designed…

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