Entries tagged with ‘Building Bridges’
Monali Bhakta ’20: Embracing and Creating Change
The Gustavus senior has served others as an intern for Senator Amy Klobuchar and through a variety of campus leadership roles.
Building Bridges Conference Explores Immigration Experience, Policy
Immigration: Demolishing the Legacy of Bigotry in the Land of Opportunity is the theme for the 24th annual Building Bridges conference on March 2.
Gena King ’22 Wins BWA National Leadership Award
The first-year student recently traveled to Washington, D.C. to receive award from The Black Women's Agenda and meet Black dignitaries from across the country.
Annual Building Bridges Conference Explores Mental Health Stigmas
Held on Saturday, March 3 beginning at 9 a.m., the conference will explore and seek to dismantle stigmas attached to mental illness and mental health.
22nd Annual Building Bridges Conference to Explore Grassroots Organizing March 4
"Uprooting Injustice: Fostering the Growth of Grassroots Movements," will explore the necessity of grassroots activism on Saturday, March 4.
21st Annual Building Bridges Conference Tackles War on Drugs this Saturday
This year’s topic is “Silver or Lead: Wealth and Violence in the War on Drugs,” and will focus on how U.S. drug policy affects massive spending efforts and the creation of international and domestic violence.
Building Bridges Conference March 12
Gustavus Adolphus College will host its 16th annual Building Bridges conference on Saturday, March 12, 2011. This year’s conference, with the theme “I’m Not For Sale: Slavery Past and Present,” will provide an opportunity for attendees to engage in dialogue about the effects of the slave trade from a historical perspective as well as from a modern-day one.
Building Bridges Conference to Focus on Education
Gustavus Adolphus College will host its 14th annual Building Bridges Conference Saturday, March 14. The theme of this year's conference is "Liberation through Education" and will focus on educational inequality in the U.S. and abroad and the important influence an education has on an individual's future.
Book Drive to Benefit Children in Uganda
A book drive organized in association with the annual Building Bridges Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College is underway at the College and in the cities of St. Peter and North Mankato. Books will be collected until mid-January when they will be sold online with proceeds going to the non-profit group Invisible Children.
Building Bridges Conference Honored by City of Saint Peter
Gustavus Adolphus College's Building Bridges Conference recently received the 2007 St. Peter Human Rights Commission Award. Given annually, the award is meant to recognize an individual or organization in St. Peter that has furthered human rights in the community.