MLK Week 2024: Creative Maladjustment

The concept of "creative maladjustment" was coined by Martin Luther King Jr. in his speeches and writings during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. King used this term to encourage individuals to reject and creatively challenge societal norms that perpetuate injustice, inequality, and discrimination.">speeches and writings during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. King used this term to encourage individuals to reject and creatively challenge societal norms that perpetuate injustice, inequality, and discrimination.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day 1/15

1/15 Monday

Join the Office of Service to pack toiletry bags for our friends at Neighbors Helping Neighbors In Founders Great Hall.

Two time slots available: 11am-12pm, and 1pm-2pm.
Please email ejohnson3 [at] haverford.edu to sign up, and include your name and what time slot you’ll be joining us!

Those not on a covered meal plan who participate can have lunch in the DC, provided by the Office of Service. All are welcome!

MLK Week:

1/24 Wednesday

• Seniors that want to celebrate their culture can customize their own graduation stoles. Drop in the MCC anytime from 12:30 - 5 pm.

1/25 Thursday

• Public Talk and Award Presentation at 7:30 pm with Camille Samuel's '21 in VCAM 201.  On Thursday evening, Camille will be the featured speaker presenting on the theme Creative Maladjustment: Relationships & Sustainability, in an event co-sponsored by the Race and Ethnicity Education (REEO). Camille will spend a few days on campus, meeting with members and partners of the Haverford College Community committed to food justice and local Black and led farms. Please reach out to Janice Lion or Diamond Howell-Shields for more information. 

Camille Samuels (HC ‘21) is a Black feminist anthropologist, community archivist, and urban farmer in South Central Los Angeles. Born and raised in the Washington DC area, she attended Haverford College for undergraduate studies, where she pursued an independent major in health studies. During her time at Haverford, Camille was involved in the Black Students League, Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, and Students for Abolition Liberation and Transformation, among other organizations. She served as a fellow for the Rethink Outside program in 2021, where she worked to increase participation in outdoor recreation for Black youth in Los Angeles. Currently, she is a National Science Foundation graduate fellow and PhD student in sociocultural anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her dissertation research explores Black epistemological imperatives for striving to achieve racial justice using agriculture. Focusing on the emergence of the food justice movement in South Central Los Angeles, she explores the practice and promise of using urban agriculture as a method of resistance and community development in Black California.

• Seniors that want to celebrate their culture can customize their own graduation stoles. Drop in the MCC anytime from 12:30 - 5 pm.

1/26 Friday

• Seniors that want to celebrate their culture can customize their own graduation stoles. Drop in the MCC anytime from 12:30 - 5 pm.
• Camille welcomes anyone to join her in VCAM screening room for a High on The Hog viewing party from 2:30 - 4:30 pm.

Check out last year's events here.