Welcome to the Office of Equity, Social Justice and Multicultural Education!
For more information and special accomodations at our in person and or virtual events, please reach out to Adriana Garcia and or call at 408-864-5636, vist us Mondays and Wednesdays 9am-3pm or reach out to DSPS at this email. You can review De Anza's Web Accessibility info page.
The Equity Office is part of De Anza's E
quity and Engagement Division. We are committed to the college's Student Equity Plan for 2019-2022.
Get Ready for the Fall
Check out De Anza's Welcome to the Fall Quarter webpage!
Mission Statement
The Office of Equity, Social Justice and Multicultural Education promotes — through programs and services — an academic, cultural and social environment that provides equity, social justice and academic success for all members of the De Anza College campus community. It supports the district and college missions, which consider diversity an essential component of student education in the 21st century.
The Equity Office takes this charge seriously. We have expanded our mission of fostering a climate of healthy diversity that values individual and group differences and respects the perspectives of others by working to eliminate institutional oppression or barriers that perpetuate inequity, injustice, and mono-cultural education.
Fall 2022: Get Involved
... with the following circles whose goal is to increase student retention and student success!
- Diwali (Event on Thurs, Oct 27, 12-4pm)
- Rising Scholars (Meets bimonthly)
- The Diversity Health Care Engagement Committee (jpg flyer)
- Disability Justice
For Upcoming Heritage Months,
please reach out to the affinity groups, DALA (Raza History Month), APASA (Diwali) and or Filipinx Studies (Filipino American History Month), the Land Acknowledgment working committee (Indigenous Peoples Day and Thankstaken), BFSA, and the LGBTQ Affinity Group.
De Anza 22-23 Multicultural Calendars
The De Anza Heritage Month Workgroup creates and maintains resources for the multicultural calendars. For more information
please check out:
To promote your multicultural events on our website and/or arrange accommodations for events, send information/requests to equityoffice@deanza.edu. To provide updates/feedback about the calendars contact the Heritage Month Co-Chairs Lee and Ron.
Additional Information at: https://tinyurl.com/DAHeritage
Fall 2022 Save the Dates
Racelessness Learning Community
The video recording of our amazing and informative workshop with Dr. Sheena Mason from Fall 2022 District Opening Day will post in the coming weeks. All District employees are invited to join us in the late-winter or spring quarter for the Racelessness Learning Community with Dr. Sheena Mason. Bookmark the learning community page at: https://www.tinyurl.com/FHDARacelessness
More Opportunities to Learn
Visit the Fall Save the Dates Page for the latest information about workshops and opportunities to learn with Dr. Tabia Lee, Faculty Director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education
Black Lives Matter
Standing Against Racism Resources
Get Involved
On Campus: African American Studies, Students UMOJA, Black Student Union, and with our colleagues BFSA -Black Faculty, Staff, Association, Men of Color,
Community: Movement for BLM, White-Allies SURJ, Asian Allies _People's Movement for Justice and Liberation,
Muwekma Tribe - Call to Action
OFFICE OF EQUITY'S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Learn - Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and Partnering Up For a Brighter Future w/POST
Donate - Muwekma Foundation and Help Restore Federal Recognition to Muwekma and COVID Relief Fund
Act - Sign the petition urging California's legislators to pass the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe resolution SJR 13 and Sign the Muwekma Letter to RESTORE FEDERAL RECOGNITION Back to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Region
Ethnic Studies
Activities TBA
On-Demand Jewish Inclusion & Anti-Semitism Community Education
In Winter 2022 a virtual summit was hosted to center Jewish Inclusion at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise locally and globally. The Jewish Inclusion and Anti-Semitism Community Education Summit topics included: Defining Anti-Semitism, Protecting Freedom of Expression in the Face of Rising Intolerance, Crossing the Line 2: The New Face of Anti-Semitism on Campus, Intersectional Identities: Diverse Voices from the Jewish Community, and Forgotten Refugees: The Mass Exodus of Jews from Arab Countries and Iran in the 20th Century. We are most thankful to the community advisors and panelists who made the summit a great success!
Please visit the Summit website to review the event recordings and explore the resources to extend the learning: https://tinyurl.com/DeAnzaJewishInclusion
For more information contact: Dr. Tabia Lee, Faculty Director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education
2021 Event Recordings
Watch some of our previous events for Equity inspiration.
- Get Paid for Being Woke: Social Justice Career Panel (Jan 21, 2021)
- Disability Justice (Jan 28, 2021)
- First Annual Sandra Diaz Nursing Professions Career Panel (April 27, 2021)
- Health Care Providers Career Panel (May 12, 2021)
- Ethnic Studies Multiracial Panel IICS by Intercultural and International Studies Division (April-May 2021)
- Then and Now: A Conversation on the History of Racism in the United States (April 6, 2021)
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Becoming a Student-Ready Campus with Lasana Hotep (September 2021)
Districtwide Professional Development
Dr Joy DeGruy: The Conversation Continues
In April, the district held the third event in a series of conversations with Dr. Joy DeGruy to deepen our understanding of the effects of institutional racism, discrimination,
and marginalization, and steps we can take within our district to become a more equitable
learning and work environment. here is this recommended self directed study for this
event. Check out her YouTube Channel
For More Informaiton: Pat Hylan HylandPat@deanza.edu.
LibGuide
To continue exploring and studying Dr. DeGruy's work, please visit this Foothill-De Anza LibGuide: An Introduction to Dr. Joy DeGruy and Anti-Racism
For more information, please send an email to Keri Kirkpatrick kirkpatrickkeri@fhda.edu
Stop Asian Hate
- Stop AAPI Hate: You can report incidents of aggression, racial profiling, and violence here in English, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese. The Asian Pacific Policy & Planning Council created this reporting center.
- In this historic year of cultural shifts, we invite you to align to the core values of equity and social justice. We have opportunities to be upstanders and we can learn from these Educational Resources on Anti-Asian Scapegoating created by the Asian American Studies department.
- Here is a teaching guide from San Francisco State's Department of Asian American Studies and the Center for Equity and Excellence in Teaching and Learning: Teaching Days after Anti Asian Violence.
- And a reading list compiled by Vox.
- Be inspired by The Atlantic on "Why This Wave of Anti-Asian Racism Feels Different."
- Find ways to be involved with Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Atlanta chapter).
- One example, is this solidarity statement written by De Anza's African American Studies.
- See these other college resources to support this ongoing journey to Stand Against Racism, currently very present against the Black community and the Asian community but not limited to the Latinx and faith based communinties, particular to the Muslim community.
- Here is this self directed study to further our justice analysis.
We Stand by Our International Students at De Anza
- Please refer to the International Student Program website for support, direct questions and inquiries.
- Here is the latest solidarity statement for Myanmar by ISP and the Office of Equity
Equity and Justice Resources
What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!
Please see our Conceptual Framework visual, explore our website regarding Guiding Assumption and Core Values and equity resources as well as student resources during this online learning experience. Check out these webpages, too:
- Standing Against Racism – college resources to support your equity and social justice journey
- More Ways to Study Equity – additional links, tools and guides for the current civil rights landscape.
- How to be Anti-Racist in a Virtual Environment - great resource from Leading Equity LLC
Stay Connected!
All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom.
- bell hooks, scholar
