About SJI
The Social Justice Initiative (SJI) at the University of Illinois Chicago connects scholars working on social justice themes to community-based social change agents locally, nationally, and globally. Through public and campus programming, curricular interventions, network building, student and community engagement, and solution-seeking workshops, exhibitions, and symposia, we seek to uplift the institution’s role as a public urban university serving and expanding the common good. SJI works to amplify UIC’s mission to advance “knowledge that transforms our views of the world and, through sharing and application, transforms the world.”
Welcoming Dr. Terrion Williamson, New Director of SJI
Meet Dr. Terrion Williamson, the UIC Social Justice Initiative’s new director!
From Dr. Williamson: “This fall, I have the enormous privilege and responsibility of becoming just the second director in the history of the Social Justice Initiative at UIC. SJI was founded in 2012 by my dear colleague Dr. Barbara Ransby, who will be retiring at the end of the current academic year after a 30-year career at UIC. In the nearly 15 years since SJI’s founding, Barbara and her incredibly talented team have worked diligently to establish a critical community of scholars, students, organizers, artists, activists, and practitioners, both internal and external to the university, who are committed to the cause of justice and have devoted their work and their lives to the vision of a better world yet to come.”
Watch the the video to the left and read more about Dr. Williamson’s trajectory and vision here.
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