Want to get involved but don't know where to start?
Join us for an online panel discussion with fellow young adults to learn how you can get involved in activism and advocacy in your local or college community. Recent New Trier graduate Haley Wint will be speaking to three young activists, Arisaid Gonzalez Porras, Austin Riddick, and Jennifer Sugijanto. Each has done incredible work in the areas of immigration reform/DACA, criminal justice reform, and Asian American advocacy and will share their experiences. Discover how to get started in activism including the skills you will need and the challenges you will face.
Haley Wint grew up in Wilmette and graduated from New Trier in 2016. She is a Class of 2020 graduate of Georgetown University and has a bachelor’s degree in Arabic and American Studies. While at Georgetown, Haley co-founded and led Mosaic, an organization that empowers and represents multiracial and multiethnic students. She continued her work in advocacy and racial justice programming in the Asian American Pacific Islander Leadership Forum and at the Asian Americans Advancing Justice nonprofit organization. After interning in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and working in academic philanthropy, Haley recently started working at a polling firm and is the Instagram manager and content creator for an advocacy initiative and campaign organization.
Arisaid Gonzalez Porras is a rising Senior at Georgetown University majoring in American Studies and minoring in Spanish. She was raised in Mesa, Arizona but migrated from Mexico at the age of one. She is currently working for a non-profit called United We Dream, the largest immigrant youth-led network in the country. Her advocacy work is mainly focused on immigration-- fighting for a pathway to citizenship, reuniting families that have been separated, and protecting immigrant communities in DC.
Austin Riddick graduated from Georgetown University (COL ‘20) with a Government major and Spanish minor. His passion for criminal justice reform was ignited after interning for Centurion, an organization in Princeton, NJ, that represents wrongfully convicted people who are sentenced to death or life without parole. On the policy side of reform, Austin was a key writer of the strategic implementation plan for D.C.’s Youth Rehabilitation Act, a law that aims to give justice-involved youth in our nation’s capital a better chance of successful reentry. Currently, he is working to overturn the conviction of Edward Martinez, a man wrongfully incarcerated for first degree murder. Austin will be a J.D. Candidate at Harvard Law School in fall 2020.
Jennifer Sugijanto (she/her) grew up in Indonesia and Northern Virginia. She recently graduated from Georgetown University with a major in History but doesn't have the diploma to prove it yet. While at Georgetown, Jennifer organized with other students to shape an Asian American Studies program, and also to create avenues through which Asian-identifying students in particular could build consciousness and mobilize to protect and care for people they are in community with. If 2021 ever comes, she will hopefully be starting medical school!
Registration will close two hours before the program begins and registrants will receive a link to join shortly thereafter.
Please email community@wilmettelibrary.info with any questions about how to access the program via Zoom.
From the south: Go north on Green Bay Road. Turn left on Wilmette Ave. Turn right on Park Ave. Library is located on the corner of Wilmette Ave. and Park Ave. Parking lot is on the north side of the building.
From the north: Go south on Green Bay Road. Turn right on Wilmette Ave. Turn right on Park Ave. Library is located on the corner of Wilmette Ave. and Park Ave. Parking lot is on the north side of the building.
From I-94 (Edens Expressway):from the South - exit at Lake Ave. East. Go east on Lake Ave. a little over 2 miles. Turn right on Park Ave. • from the North - exit at Rt. 41/Skokie Blvd. Turn left (east) on Lake Ave. Go east on Lake Ave. a little over 2 miles. Turn right on Park Ave.
Mass transit options include CTA, Metra, and Pace.
