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Conversation Cafe: Voter Empowerment as Justice: The potential, limitations, and how to engage folks in the process

Event Type
Conference/Workshop
Sponsor
Conversation Café is sponsored by Diversity & Social Justice Education as part of OIIR’s Lunch on Us series.
Location
University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign
Date
Nov 8, 2019   12:00 pm   1:00
Speaker
Mansi Kathuria, Asian Americans Advancing Justice
Cost
This event is paid for in part by the Student Cultural Programming Fee.
Contact
Ross Wantland
E-Mail
wantland@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Diversity & Social Justice Education

Mansi Kathuria is the PAVE community organizer for Asian Americans Advancing Justice in Chicago. She works with the Pan Asian Voter Empowerment Network to build Asian and Immigrant power in the city through issue based campaigns and civic engagement.

Before coming to Advancing Justice, Mansi worked on a number of progressive electoral campaigns in Chicago and throughout the country. She also spent two years as a labor organizer with National Nurses United, helping nurses unionize and raise national patient care standards.

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