Tuesday, April 13, 12:30-2:30 p.m., this on-line event requires advance registration

This event will be a conversation about the sanctuary movement and the impact of U.S.-Mexico border policies on our neighbors here in Columbus, Ohio. An open discussion will follow the presentations.

• Dr. Sydney Silverstein will screen one of her short ethnographic films (approximately 8 minutes) made with a family living in sanctuary in a church in Columbus, Ohio. It discusses some of the challenges facing collaborative work with people living in precarious circumstances. Here, techniques of participatory collage were employed to protect the anonymity of the film’s subjects, while still grounding their story in the particulars of their experience.

• Jeremy Hollon will discuss the work that CRIS [Community Refugee Immigration Services] does with immigrants in Columbus, Ohio, particularly secondary Latin American migrants coming into their programming through asylum cases.

• Jan Phillips will discuss the larger Sanctuary movement and the need for immigration reform, including DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals], help for people living in the shadows, workers’ rights, etc., and their intersectionality.

• Team Miriam and Team Edith will have a roundtable discussion about their experiences in sanctuary here in Columbus.

Presenters:

• Edith Espinal with Team Edith and Miriam Vargas with Team Miriam (Spanish-English Interpretation will be provided by Carrie Vereide)

• Sydney Silverstein, Assistant Professor, Center for Interventions, Treatment, and Addictions Research/Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine

• Jeremy Hollon, Associate Director of Community Partnerships, Community Refugee and Immigration Services [CRIS]

This program will be introduced by Jan Phillips, Board Member of First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus and Facilitator of the Racial and Immigration Justice Group

RSVP for this event by using this link.

In conjunction with Bringing the Border to Columbus: A Virtual Symposium, April 12-16.