Tonight's show featured the following people, organizations and/or events. Check them out and get plugged into your community!
Erin Castro, outgoing director of the University of Utah Prison Education Project, which is hiring its first-ever paid Director of Prison Education this spring. UPEP is also moving into the Office of Undergraduate Studies to join a robust portfolio of community engagement initiatives, including the STEM Community Alliance (STEMCAP) and INSPIRE program. Together, these three programs will comprise UPEP’s efforts to engage with incarcerated adults and youth-in-custody throughout the state.
Organizing Starbucks with local organizers Jacob Lawson and Brittany Glazier. They both work at the Cottonwood Heights store, where they’re leading a union push. To learn more about the push to organize the chain nationwide, follow @SBWorkersUnited and @CMRJB.
Student organizer Sadie Nelson-Stippich reported in on the walk out she helped organize earlier today at West High. Students were showing their support for their transgender peers affected by a ban enacted by lawmakers in the final hours of the legislative session last month.
Debating solutions for the Great Salt Lake, featuring:
- Salt Lake Tribune Reporter Saige Miller, whose story — Before water runs dry, Utah high schoolers debate solutions for their future — prompted tonight’s panel discussion
- Ishan Sharma, West High
- Layla Hijjawi, Rowland Hall
