PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/SHARE WITH STUDENTS: Upcoming NASP Events
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Indigenous Careers and Professional Development, Alternative Spring Break Series
NASP is hosting four events over spring break from March 23, 2021, to March 25, 2021. All UIC students, staff, faculty, and community friends are welcome to attend. The events include a workshop, comedian performance, and casual conversations with Indigenous professionals working in various careers. Please register for events at the NASP Events Web Page.
Whose Land Are You On? Native History, Contemporary Issues, and Land Acknowledgements
Date: March 23, 2021 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
All UIC students, staff, faculty, and community friends are welcome!
This virtual workshop is part of the Alternative Spring Break series hosted by the Native American Support Program, The University of Illinois at Chicago.
Land acknowledgments have become common in academic spaces, as well as outside of academia, in schools, and at cultural, civic, and sporting events. Join us to gain a greater understanding of the significance of Native history, contemporary issues, and a land acknowledgment and how to create your own. This workshop will include a conversational presentation as well as a guided activity.
Casey Brown (Ho-Chunk), Comedian Performance
Date: March 24, 2021 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
All UIC students, staff, faculty, and community friends are welcome!
This Comedian Performance with Casey Brown (Ho-Chunk) is part of the Alternative Spring Break series hosted by the Native American Support Program, The University of Illinois at Chicago.
Casey Brown moved from his home state of Wisconsin to takes classes at Second City, the world’s premier comedy writing and performing school. He soon became part of the local comedy scene producing and hosting multiple shows at The Vic Theater, The Gallery Cabaret and Bucktown Pub. He continues to be a leading voice in Chicago's small Indigenous comedy scene.
"Casey Brown Chicago's Best (Only) American Indian Comedian” will speak to the trials of being in the minority of racial minorities in his people’s own country and how that effects life as a writer, director, producer and performer in the urban setting of Chicago.
Dr. Eli Suzukovich III (Little Shell Band of Chippewa-Cree/Krajina Serb)
Date: March 25, 2021 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
All UIC students, staff, faculty, and community friends are welcome!
This casual conversation with Dr. Eli Suzukovich III (Little Shell Band of Chippewa-Cree/Krajina Serb) is part of the Alternative Spring Break series hosted by the Native American Support Program, The University of Illinois at Chicago.
Dr. Eli Suzukovich III is an anthropologist with a focus on cultural resource management, ethnography, religion, oral history, and ethno-biology. Currently, Eli is a Research Scientist in the Negaunee Integrative Research Center at the Field Museum, where he is a member of the curation team for the renovation of the Native North America Hall. Along with museum work, Eli is a lecturer in the Environmental Policy and Culture Program at Northwestern and a faculty affiliate in the Native American and Indigenous Research Institute at Northwestern University.
River Kerstetter (Oneida Nation and of mixed Indigenous/European descent)
From March 26, 2021 to 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
All UIC students, staff, faculty, and community friends are welcome!
This casual conversation with River Kerstetter (Oneida Nation) is part of the Alternative Spring Break series hosted by the Native American Support Program, The University of Illinois at Chicago.
River Kerstetter is a citizen of the Oneida Nation and of mixed Indigenous/European descent. River is an artist and writer who believes that art and storytelling are vital parts of collective healing and connection, especially in Indigenous, Two-Spirit, and LGBTQIA+ communities who fight to be seen and safe every day. She has taught art for youth and young adults for eight years, including at the Chicago Center for Arts & Technology, Columbia College Chicago, and Working Classroom in Albuquerque, NM. She is a co-founder of TIES, a reading series that celebrates Indigenous, Two-Spirit, and LGBTQ+ writers, and a co-founder of the Center for Native Futures, a new Chicago non-profit that works to support Native artists. River grew up in occupied Pueblo lands (Central New Mexico) and now lives and works in occupied Potawatomi, Ojibwe, and Odawa lands (Chicago).