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Watershed Moments: Publicly Engaged Design Education in Providence and Beyond

By Imagining America

December 8, 2023

Return The CoPED Session at the 2023 Imagining America National Gathering, Providence RI Presenters:  William Green, José R. Menéndez, Elaine Stiles, Emily Vogler  Organized…

Welcome Troy Nichols, IA Associate Director of Membership

By Imagining America

September 26, 2023

Imagining America is proud to welcome Troy Nichols as our new Associate Director of Membership! Troy has spent over twenty five years working…

UNI Spotlights Something Old, Something New

By Imagining America

May 13, 2023

The North American Review (NAR), the nation’s oldest literary magazine is currently housed at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) and is celebrating 50 years at our university.

Expressing CARE and Finding Liberation with Community-based Arts Initiatives

By Imagining America

September 29, 2022

By Rashmeet Kaur

During the pandemic, I learned how to slow down and embrace the communities around me. As an artist from several underserved backgrounds…

Entanglements of the U.S. military-industrial complex

By Imagining America

September 29, 2022

By Nathaly Ortiz

As a first-generation Latinx college student entering my second year in the doctoral program in Ethnic Studies at the University of California…

Thinking creatively and collectively about reparative futures

By Imagining America

September 28, 2022

By Marisa Raya

I came to be a scholar of land reparations after working most of my life in the public sector, leading data-based analysis of racialized urban displacement and regional disparities…

Decolonial praxis collective- Grassroots popular pedagogy

By Imagining America

September 28, 2022

By Fernando David Márquez Duarte

Public Scholarship to me refers to projects that are born from scholars, mostly BIPOC, that are marginalized from academic spaces and have a commitment for reaching more just…

Mass Incarceration in the Land of the Free

By Imagining America

September 28, 2022

By Brittany Daniels

My work enables reconfigurations of institutional approaches toward collaborative and community-based work through counter-storytelling…