Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Breakfast

8:30am

Please enjoy some light breakfast, snacks, coffee, and tea being served in the hallway outside of Terrell Hall (TH) Room 122 Auditorium before the opening ceremony begins and throughout the morning.

Opening Ceremony

8:30-8:55am

Opening remarks in TH 122 Auditorium:

• Melissa Manolas, Groundswell Conference Coordinator
• Jaye Nasir, Groundswell Keynote Speaker

Session 1

9-9:45am

Panel 1

• Title: Breaking Free: Surviving the People Who Were Supposed to Protect Us
• Location: TH 100
• Facilitator: Erin Ergenbright
• Works:
  • The Guardians by Aradia Burkhalter
  • Distance Is Not Cruelty by Alison Bailey
  • Easier by Lexi Herrick

Panel 2

• Title: The Stories We’re Sold: Media, Rhetoric, and Reality
• Location: TH 112
• Facilitator: Andrea Hills
• Works:
  • When Choice Becomes Pressure: Social Media and Modern Childbirth by Jessa Flores
  • Swiping Through the Paradox of Choice by Magdalena Dominguez-Ryall
  • What It Means to Be the Poor White Southerner by Kassandra Johnson

Panel 3

• Title: Student Voices from the Strike
• Location: TH 122
• Facilitator: Liz Smith
• Works:
  • People Built The Pyramids by Shawnta Creech
  • Re: Staff Strike by Cassius Wolfstar
  • Reflections on a Strike by Evan Bybee
  • Notes from a Journal by Sam Spink
  • Dear Dr. Bennings by Fylja Brady
  • A Message for You by Rachel Thomas

Panel 4

• Title: Tongue Tied: Language, Identity, and Belonging
• Location: TH 200
• Facilitator: Allison Gross
• Works:
  • My Voice Doesn’t Sound Like Yours And That Should Be Enough by Brendan Gordon
  • Inclusive Spaces: Don’t Ask, Create. by Danielle Neblock
  • So Like Are We Even Totally Allowed To Use Our Rad Language In Academic Writing, Or What Bro? by Addy Threeirons
  • How to Succeed in Academia Without Making Anyone (Except Yourself) Uncomfortable by Molly Gregory

Panel 5

• Title: By Design: Building Spaces That Include Everyone
• Location: TH 201
• Facilitator: Leanne Redlinger
• Works:
  • PCC Trail & Renovations Group by Tyler Branch, Justin Frazier, Monica Luckman, and Titonian Wallace
  • 53rd Street Group by Tae Park, Josias Delgado-Loza, Abbie Mardueno, Alfredo Perez Urbina, and Miguel Varela Parrado

Session 2

9:55-10:40am

Panel 1

• Title: The Weight We Carry: What We Put Our Bodies Through
• Location: TH 100
• Facilitator: Josha Nathan
• Works:
  • Living Weapons: What Makes Hunger Striking an Effective Form of Protest? by Anna Berry
  • skin and boneless by Bella Malmquist
  • Grape Clinic Candy by Anthony Veblen
  • To Carry the Weight by Rachel Shallanberger

Panel 2

• Title: Rewriting the Narrative: Counterstories and Resistance
• Location: TH 112
• Facilitator: Danica Fierman
• Works:
  • Reshaping Success by Angela Juarez
  • Industry vs. Harmony by Lucas Vornholt
  • The Social Abandonment of the American South by Rin Stone

Panel 3

• Title: Crossing Borders: The Immigrant Experience
• Location: TH 200
• Facilitator: Alex Lee
• Works:
  • When Being Brown Became the Crime by Fernando Torres Corona
  • A Daughter’s Trauma by Andrea Vargas Alcocer
  • A Letter to Mga Kababayan: You Are Enough by Destiny Bugarin

Panel 4

• Title: Under Pressure: When Systems Exploit the People Inside Them
• Location: TH 201
• Facilitator: Karina Bjork
• Works:
  • The Non-Standard Issue by Nate Ekstrom
  • The Public Health Crisis America Chose to Ignore by Tatum Keller
  • Health Equity by Olga Yasinskaya
  • Payouts and Knockouts: The Allure and the Angst of Mixed Martial Arts by Grant Rochelle

Session 3

10:50-11:35am

Panel 1

• Title: The Long Goodbye: Death, Grief, and Healing
• Location: TH 100
• Facilitator: Jason Rizos
• Works:
  • Love Letters (selected poems) by Katarina Lachenal
  • Avoiding the Inevitable: Confronting Reality in a Death-Denying Culture by Lydia Juenemann
  • Finally Able to Breathe by Shawnta Creech
  • The Touch of Death by Bella Malmquist

Panel 2

• Title: Man vs. Machine: AI, Creativity, and What Makes Us Human
• Location: TH 112
• Facilitator: Calin Anderson
• Works:
  • STOP. MAKING. ART. by T.L. (Tristan) Hunter
  • The Upcoming Eclipse: A Reading List on Building Our Next God by Ian Donaldson
  • AI Should Be Used to Grade Student Work [A “Bad Ideas” Essay] by Dominic Catalfo

Panel 3

• Title: Where I’m From: The Weight of Heritage
• Location: TH 200
• Facilitator: Andrea Hills
• Works:
  • Ta’ovala by Karl Sanft
  • Стихотворение к середине семестра by Sebastiana Ivkin
  • American Love by Awen Brown
  • I Heard a Whisper by Wanda Clark

Panel 4

• Title: Into the Wild: Nature, Ecology, and Our Place in It
• Location: TH 201
• Facilitator: Erin Ergenbright
• Works:
  • If You Saw by Hanna Lilly
  • The Space Between Catch and Release by Sara Davis
  • My Response to “Kill Your Lawn” by Maygen Hostetler

Session 4

11:40am-12:30pm

Panel 1

• Title: Worlds Apart: Fiction That Bridges Cultures
• Location: TH 100
• Facilitator: Lara Messersmith-Glavin
• Works:
  • Beneath the Surface by Brian Bondietti
  • The Friend by Christopher Pierce
  • A Distant Light of Belonging by Saoirse Chance

Panel 2

• Title: Portland Stories: Place, Community, and Grit
• Location: TH 112
• Facilitator: Samm Erickson
• Works:
  • Portland Street Art Group by Karla Magana and Sarah Friedman
  • Gentrification of Albina Neighborhood by Angelani Anzuruni

Panel 3

• Title: ESOL: Student Perspectives on The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
• Location: TH 122
• Facilitator: Luciana Diniz
• Works:
  • Trauma and Human Understanding by Maryam Afsar
  • Gender and Discrimination by Joseph Hamati
  • A Journey of Healing from Trauma by Ahsu Jun
  • The Power of a Smile by Rihab Saleh
  • The Power of a Hunch by Sammy Shi

Panel 4

• Title: The Art of Seeing: Creativity, Meaning, and Memory
• Location: TH 200
• Facilitator: Alex Lee
• Works:
  • Art as Mnemonic Vessel by Micaela Parra-Sanchez
  • Influences of Hudson River School Art on Manifest Destiny by Samuel Hurlbut
  • Stitched in Pink by Mikaela Fish