This event is a product of Oregon State University’s Equity-Centered Community Design (ECCD), a pilot policy advocacy program. ECCD is an initiative to cultivate sustainable relationships across the OSU campus in order to identify and advocate for solutions to overcome disparate outcomes in our institution. In this discussion, we hope to create meaningful space to discuss how, specifically, Oregon perpetuates systemic injustices. We've invited the Oregon Historical Society to present, and their keynote will be followed by facilitated discussion.

In December 2019, the Oregon Historical Society published a special issue of the Oregon Historical Quarterly on “White Supremacy and Resistance,” offering scholarship on the ways Oregon has been shaped by White supremacist ideology and policies—and resistance to those frameworks—for almost two centuries.  Understanding how both racism and justice are at the heart of Oregon’s history is crucial to our ability to build a better future. In this virtual presentation, OHS Executive Director Kerry Tymchuk offers an overview of this history and invites questions and discussion from the audience.