Faculty and staff and invited to come chat with Candace Combs about schools, learning English, and one child’s stories of life as a refugee in Oklahoma. We’ll center our discussion on the beginning of Daniel Nayeri’s hilarious YA book Everything Sad is Untrue. Please feel free to attend even if you haven’t finished the selection.

When: Tuesday, January 16 from 11:30am – 12:30pm
Where: Olmsted Room, Mandelle Hall and the #ARRK Team site.

You can find a PDF of the reading on the #ARRK Team site.

If you would like to join us in person for lunch, we’ve ordered some pizza.

For more information on the history of ARRK please visit the Inclusive Excellence website.

The AntiRacism Reading Knook (ARRK) is a collaboration between the K College library staff and our Inclusive Excellence (KCIE) leadership team. This initiative is NOT a book club, but seeks to facilitate campus-wide engagement with the books in the KCIE Reading for Change book collection. This collection was created to encourage learning about and facilitate greater access to antiracism information to all members of the campus community.

ARRK aims to:

1. reduce barrier to entry into reading antiracism books,
2. identify and highlight campus facilitators with experience teaching and/or disciplinary expertise who can provide context and guide discussions of specific texts,
3. foster broader relationships among faculty and staff, and thus
4. build greater capacity for an inclusive campus through sustained and focused engagement with shared texts.
5. help catalyze members of the campus to engage in small group discussions of entire books in the collection (self-organized book clubs, if you will).

For further information on #ARRK see the KCIE AntiRacism Reading Knook page. To volunteer to lead one of these sessions complete the ARRK Discussion Leader application.