News and Events 2011 - 2012

News and Upcoming Events

6/1 - Check out our Spring Quarter newsletter here!

4/27 - De Anza's first annual Poetry Slam

May 4 -5 - Campus Camp Wellstone Training - Campus Camp Wellstone trains students nationwide on how to run energized, community building, winning campaigns. We focus on campus and community organizing and young voter engagement. Join De Anza students in the Santa Cruz mountains for the weekend of May 4 -5, 2012.

For more information, visit www.wellstone.org.

If you are interested in participating, please contact Nickey Yuen at 408.864.8535 or yuennicky@deanza.edu or Alysa Cisneros, Student Coordinator, De Anza ICCE, at alysalovesdemocracy@gmail.com

5/17 - Visiting Speakers Series: Education and Youth Aspirations for the Future in Silicon Valley With Elsa Davidson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ. What factors influence the hopes and aspirations of Silicon Valley high school students and how do those hopes differ based on class and race? Davidson is the author of The Burdens of Aspiration: Youth, Schooling, and Inequality in Silicon Valley, that explored the world of two Silicon Valley high schools, one very affluent and mostly white and Asian, the other mostly working class and Latino. From 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Hinson Campus Center, Conference Rooms A&B.

Past News and Events 2011 - 2012

My Vote, My Future campaign gets local coverage: read here

Remembering Trayvon Martin 4/12

Visiting Speaker Series: Using the Cultures of the Valley to Strengthen and Sustain Us 4/12 

ICS 55 - Civic Leadership for Community Empowerment: Political Economy of the Silicon Valley

March Sacramento in March 2012 3/5

California History Center's 9th Annual Day of Remembrance 2/16 Flier

Visiting Speaker Series: Growing Roses In Concrete 2/9  Flier1 Flier2

Visiting Speaker Series: Envisioning a Sustainable Santa Clara Valley  1/26 Video Flier1 Flier2

East Cottage Open House 12/12 Flier

Youth Voices United for Change Conference 11/18 Flier1 Flier2

IMASS/LEAD Know Your Rights Dream Act Lawyer Visit 10/19 Flier

Wherever there's a fight: A history of civil liberties in California 10/10-12/1 Flier

Upcoming Events

March Sacramento in March 2012 3/5

Visiting Speaker Series: Growing Roses In Concrete 2/9  Flier1 Flier2

California History Center's 9th Annual Day of Remembrance 2/16 Flier 

Past Events

Visiting Speaker Series: Envisioning a Sustainable Santa Clara Valley 1/26 Flier1 Flier2

East Cottage Open House 12/12 Flier

Youth Voices United for Change Conference 11/18 Flier1 Flier2

IMASS/LEAD Know Your Rights Dream Act Lawyer Visit 10/19 Flier

Wherever there's a fight: A history of civil liberties in California 10/10-12/1 Flier