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UW//LA JEDI Newsletter SPR ’22

Our Department JEDI Committee

Year End Reflection

On behalf of the Landscape Architecture department, the JEDI Committee would like to acknowledge that these onerous and tragic times of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, blatant attacks on human rights nationally and globally,

Our Department JEDI Committee

Year End Reflection

On behalf of the Landscape Architecture department, the JEDI Committee would like to acknowledge that these onerous and tragic times of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, blatant attacks on human rights nationally and globally, and racially motivated murders

UWLA Department JEDI Updates

Comments from the JEDI Jam event on April 18 have been logged, and can be found here, including those added during the one week of extended posting on the 3rd floor of Gould. Our committee has started to thematically

CBE Diversity Council Updates

CBE BIPOC Lunch 

Mark your calendars and please join us on Thursday, June 2nd for this quarter’s College-wide BIPOC lunch event! We will be serving banh mi sandwiches from Saigon Deli again along with other refreshments and hope to see

Student Feature – Yes Farm Charrette 5/7/22

The Black Farmers Collective (BFC) is working to develop a 1.5 acre urban farm in Yesler Terrace for community building, educational programming and growing a Black-led farm co-op. Led by UW CEP graduate, Shabazz Abdulkadir, with the help

UWASLA Youth Outreach Updates

In the month of May, UWASLA Youth Outreach Project: Empowering BIPOC Youth: Pathways to Sustainable Design Futures worked with the Duwamish River Community Coalition (DRCC) Youth Corps on a design mock studio to redesign Jack Block Park.

Each workshop

PAC JEDI Committee Updates

About

Did you know that the department’s Professional Advisory Council (PAC) has its own JEDI Committee?  The mission of this Committee is “to provide a just, equitable, diverse and inclusive forum where students and professionals from all backgrounds, and having

Upcoming JEDI Events

Gardens for BIPoC
Graham Visitor Center, Washington Park Arboretum
Ongoing, Monthly
Schedule, urbhort@uw.edu

​​Gardens for BIPoC is a new, free monthly tour that takes place in the Washington Park Arboretum, serving folks that identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or