Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The evolving role of banks in addressing opportunity ladders for the underserved (April 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83398 83398-21369784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Register and more details at https://fordschool.umich.edu/event/2021/evolving-role-banks-addressing-opportunity-ladders-underserved

Since becoming Goldman Sachs’s youngest female Black partner in history at age 37 in 2018, Margaret Anadu has spearheaded much of the big bank’s efforts to invest in underserved areas and particularly communities of color. Anadu is the global head of sustainability and impact for Asset Management at GS, leading the development and oversight of the firm’s strategy for delivering commercial solutions and leading advisory services to clients related to inclusive growth and climate transition, the two core pillars of the firm’s sustainability strategy. She is also chair of the Urban Investment Group (UIG) and co-chair of the Asset Management Sustainability Council. Anadu also took a leading role in disbursing the bank’s capital for the Paycheck Protection Program, the federal government’s stimulus initiative for small businesses. She will discuss how banks can help create opportunity for underserved communities, in conversation with Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence William Bynum.

From the speaker's bio

Prior to assuming her current role, Margaret was head of UIG, overseeing a $4 billion portfolio dedicated to investments that address racial inequities, unemployment, a lack of affordable housing, and other problems, providing equity and debt to real estate projects and social enterprises, and lending facilities for small businesses, students, and individuals in order to create opportunity. Established in 2001, UIG has committed more than $10 billion to community and economic development investments, serving as a catalyst in the revitalization of underserved, predominantly minority communities.

Margaret also serves on the Board of Advisors of Launch With GS, Goldman Sachs’ $500 million commitment to invest in companies and investment managers with diverse leadership, and is an ex-officio member of the Investment Banking Division Council for Advancement of Racial Equity.

Margaret serves on the boards of several community and economic development organizations, including the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, Center for an Urban Future, Core Innovation Capital, Low Income Investment Fund, New York Public Radio and The Africa Center.

Margaret earned a BA in Computer Science from Harvard College in 2003.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 May 2022 13:58:36 -0400 2021-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Margaret Anadu and William Bynum
The Rainbow Coat Panel (April 12, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83616 83616-21438454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Please join the Spectrum Center for the first of a hopefully annual event, The Rainbow Coat Panel! This event is meant to open a community-wide intersectional discussion regarding first-generation and low-income queer and trans* students' experiences. The panelists include:

Trevor Bechtel, Student Engagement Coordinator at Poverty Solutions (he/him);
Jessie Fullenkamp, UM Alumna and Education and Evaluation Director at the Ruth Ellis Center (she/her);
Jay Hash, former Spectrum Center Student Staff Member (they/them);
Samuel Ramirez-Morales, a current undergraduate student in LSA (he/him)

A huge thank you to our collaborators for this event from Poverty Solutions at UM and the Ruth Ellis Center. You can learn more about these organizations and their work at https://poverty.umich.edu and https://ruthelliscenter.org respectively.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:12:04 -0400 2021-04-12T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion This event aims to open an intersectional dialogue regarding first-generation and low-income queer and trans* students' experiences. Co-sponsored by the Spectrum Center, Poverty Solutions at UM, and the Ruth Ellis Center.
Environmental Racism & Environmental Justice (April 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83622 83622-21440409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Featuring Donele Wilkins (CEO, Green Door Initiative, Detroit) and Kathryn Savoie (Detroit Community Health Director, Ecology Center) with welcome and introductions by Amy Schulz (Professor HBHE, UM SPH). https://umich.zoom.us/j/91685410400

Final in this Series: April 20 "Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments: Research to Improve Air Quality and Health in Detroit".

Webinar series organized by the Community Engagement Core and the Integrated Health Sciences Core of the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD). Co-sponsored by the DEI Committee of Health Behavior & Health Education and the DEI Committee of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:05:04 -0400 2021-04-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Environmental Racism & Environmental Justice
Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments: Research to Improve Air Quality & Health in Detroit (April 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83634 83634-21446267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Join us on Zoom as we discuss 'Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments: Research to Improve Air Quality and Health in Detroit' featuring Angela Reyes (Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation), Stuart Batterman (Environmental Health Sciences, UM SPH), and Amy Schulz (Health Behavior & Health Education, UM SPH). (Rescheduled from Feb 9.)

https://umich.zoom.us/j/96155698295

Webinar series organized by the Community Engagement Core and the Integrated Health Sciences Core of the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD). Co-sponsored by the DEI Committee of Health Behavior & Health Education and the DEI Committee of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:08:12 -0400 2021-04-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-20T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments in Detroit
The Struggle to Survive in Central America: A Portrait of Life from a Grassroots, Human Rights Perspective (May 20, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83015 83015-21243197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This lecture will be live streamed.

This presentation will give an overview of the forces that impact the daily lives of Central Americans who are struggling to provide for their families in a context of poverty, violence, extractive industries and impunity. Especially highlighted will be the country of Honduras, whose residents continue to try to flee to the U.S. Border out of desperation.


Mary Anne Perrone is an educator, an activist and a spiritual guide. All her adult life she has been an activist for peace and justice. Her particular area of focus for over 30 years has been on human rights in Latin America. This work led their young family to live and work in Latin America in the late 1980’s (Bolivia) to accompany the poor there in a spirit of liberation. She has been working in the U.S. ever since to raise consciousness about our country’s role in human rights violations in Latin America and to work for substantive change in our foreign policy. In the last two decades, this work has taken her on multiple human rights delegations to several Latin American countries, connecting with and accompanying courageous people working in their own countries to defend those whose human rights are highly threatened.

This is the last of a six-lecture series. The subject of the series is Central America: Coffee to Caravans. OLLI’s lecture series will start again in September of 2021. Learn from well-known experts about an array of interesting subjects, with an interactive Q&A period following each lecture.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 13 Mar 2021 15:17:21 -0500 2021-05-20T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday lecture image
Homelessness and School Discipline Discussion Panel (June 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84091 84091-21619970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Please join us for the opportunity to learn about new research from Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan on homelessness and school discipline. The research will be presented by Jennifer Erb-Downward, a senior research associate at Poverty Solutions.

The presentation will be followed by a discussion panel featuring three individuals with professional and lived experience:
- Julie Ratekin, assistant director of programs at Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency
- Sarena Shivers, deputy executive director of professional learning and member services at Michigan Association of Superintendents and Administrators
- Brittney Barros, Student Advocacy Center board member and social worker

The Homelessness and School Discipline Discussion Panel is sponsored by Student Advocacy Center, Street Democracy and Poverty Solutions at U-M.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 20 May 2021 13:46:09 -0400 2021-06-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-06-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Poverty Solutions Livestream / Virtual The flyer shows event information.
20 Things Everyone Should Know about Slavery (June 18, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83859 83859-21555873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 18, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Social Solutions

Panelists will seek to generate a discussion about how historical knowledge might contribute solutions to the problems of contemporary expressions of human slavery and offer new pathways to democracy and freedom.

Among American historians, it is generally agreed that the historical study of chattel slavery covered about 250 years: from 1619 to 1865 in the United States and to 1888 in Brazil and the Americas. Yet slavery has not disappeared. Globally, an estimated 27–40 million persons are victims of involuntary servitude. What if these contemporary forms of human labor exploitation constitute a “Third Slavery”?

Introductions will be given by Dr. Earl Lewis, director of the Center for Social Solutions and the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, History, and Public Policy.

The roundtable discussion will be chaired by Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, the Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Panelists include:

David W. Blight, the Sterling Professor of History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University;

Ambassador (ret.) Luis C.deBaca, a Senior Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University;

Duncan Jepson is the managing director of Liberty Shared, a legal advocacy non-profit that aims to prevent human trafficking;

Genevieve LeBaron, Professor of Politics and Director of Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Sheffield;

James Alexander Robinson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies with emphasis in Black Studies at the Metropolitan State University, and curator of the Third Slavery archive for the Center for Social Solutions.

We send a special thank you to our co-sponsors of this event:
LSA Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
UM Law School's Human Trafficking Clinic (HTC)
UM Poverty Solutions
UM Rackham Graduate School
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:14:57 -0400 2021-06-18T14:00:00-04:00 2021-06-18T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Social Solutions Lecture / Discussion 20 Things Everyone Should Know about Slavery
Detroit Working Group: Land Contracts & Affordable Homeownership (July 22, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84399 84399-21623852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 22, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Join us for an in-person working group on land contracts and affordable homeownership in Detroit.

For neighborhood leaders and other Detroit residents, this working group will cover how land contracts can both help and hinder affordable homeownership in Detroit, and you'll have the opportunity to weigh in on a new tool designed to help potential buyers tell the difference.

For practitioners, this working group will provide a chance to network with representatives from other local organizations engaged in similar work and shape the direction of Poverty Solutions’ newest community education tool.

This working group is a part of Poverty Solutions' community experts initiative, a quarterly event series that aims to deepen our commitment to working with Detroit residents and leaders on action-based research. We convene community leaders with both lived and professional experience confronting poverty to share insights and generate innovative ideas for action.

Please note that this event will be held outdoors, in accordance with U-M and CDC guidelines. Please wear a mask if you have not received a COVID-19 vaccine. Snacks and drinks will be served, so please RSVP.

The working group will take place at covered picnic tables at Clark Park in Detroit, along Scotten Avenue, between Vernor Highway and Porter Street.

Let us know how we can ensure that this event is inclusive. Contact Poverty Solutions Assistant Director of Community Initiatives Afton Branche-Wilson at aftonb@umich.edu or (567) 318-3027 with questions, requests for accommodations or access needs we can help facilitate.

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Meeting Wed, 07 Jul 2021 10:47:40 -0400 2021-07-22T17:30:00-04:00 2021-07-22T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Poverty Solutions Meeting house