20+ CPGC Highlights during Fall 2024

1. 3rd Annual Ardmore Walking tour and Local Partnerships Orientation. As the class of 2028 descended on campus, CPGC Executive Director Eric Hartman joined Office of Service and Community Collaboration Director Emily Johnson to highlight local community-based work study, volunteer, and internship partners like Neighbors Helping Neighbors while also expanding awareness of the campus border and local history. In close collaboration with the Customs program, this orientation supports a continuously deeper understanding of our local community, including its history of social action, walkable streets, dynamic businesses, and community organizations. 
2. Music, Power, & 9/11: la Canción Protesta de Victor Jara & the Chilean Coup of 1973. Continuing a series examining September 11th beyond dominant narratives, CPGC Faculty Director and Associate Professor of Spanish Ariana Huberman cooperated with Assistant Professor of Music Edwin Porras to host Victor Jara expert Daniel Party, followed by beautiful renditions of Chilean and other protest music performed by Professor of Spanish Roberto Sandoval, Patricio Acevedo, and Alejo de los Reyes. Before the talk and music, audience members were treated to a 5 minute video sent from the American Song Archives, about how Haverford student interns contributed to their Jara exhibit.
3. Coffee, Current Events, and Conversation - Almost Every Week! This weekly series featured student, staff, and faculty dialogue on critical issues in the news now - over coffee and cookies. Many thanks to Anika Venezia for taking a lead on this contribution!
4. Public Policy, Advocacy, and Improving Educational Equity in Pennsylvania. As part of the College’s Meeting the Moment (MtM) series, the CPGC filled Lutnick 200 for a conversation about the intersections among public policy and education, featuring Deborah Gordon Klehr, executive director of Education Law Center, Paul Socolar ‘77, Co-founder, longtime editor/publisher of The Philadelphia Public School Notebook (now Philadelphia Chalkbeat) and the communications specialist at the Education Law Center, and Jude Hussein, Chief of Staff of State Advocacy and Strategic Initiatives in the Pennsylvania State Senate, and Deputy Executive Director of Philly BOLT.
5. The Let's Circle Up Restorative Justice Workshop featured long-time partners Let’s Circle Up, sharing values and practices of restorative justice honed at SCI-Graterford, now extending across the region and beyond, while still practicing restorative justice on the inside at SCI-Phoenix. Congratulations to friend, collaborator, and restorative justice visionary Felix Rosado, who recently published a restorative justice facilitator’s manual based on LCU practice and methods. 
6. Critical inquiry and conflict resolution on divisive global issues. MtM organizers brought Soliya to campus, enabling faculty / staff workshopping and updating high-impact inter- and cross-cultural dialogue skills. CPGC was happy to participate and glad to see Soliya return to campus, after working with a cohort of students organized by CPGC last spring. 
7. Ardmore Advisory Council Meeting and Social at Tired Hands. The OSCC and CPGC gathered students, community leaders, members of the College Senior Staff, faculty, and friends for informal community-building and visioning, celebrating the many long-standing strengths among Ardmore community and College collaborations, while breaking bread, reconnecting, and visioning forward together.  
8. The Annual CPGC Fellowship Poster Fair and Ignite Presentations gathered most of the (sixty) 2024 Fellows in one room sharing their successes, challenges, and insights with the campus community. The community assembled together was treated to brief, engaging Ignite Talks from Anaji Agarwal, Olivia Aguirre, Rebecca Hametz-Berner, Kaiya Inouye, Lauren Johnson, and Marc Muench-Nasrallah (all available at the link above). 
9. Work and Justice: a half-credit, post-internship course. Close observers commented on improvements in the quality of ignite presentations and posters this year, reflecting more deliberate time focusing on internship professional skill development, clarification of personal strengths, engaging systems thinking, and communicating about one’s experiences and next steps in the half-credit course innovation that several students, staff, and faculty members presented about in November at the 7th Summit of the Community-based Global Learning Collaborative in Worcester, Massachusetts. 
10. Supporting voter registration awareness, sign-posting, and communications through MtM’s efforts to amplify, clarify, and strengthen voter registration and participation across the campus community!
11. Migrant Rights and Inclusion in PA. The CPGC cooperated with MtM to host Jasmine Rivera, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition, and Blanca Pacheco, Co-Director at the New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia, on campus for a discussion of how local, state, and national elections will impact migrant communities in Pennsylvania specifically. They also shared strategies for coping, coalition-building, and sustaining against all odds. 
12. Which Way will Swing Voters Swing? As family, friends, and alumni came to campus for Family and Friends Weekend, CPGC supported MtM programming by hosting Rich Thau ‘87, dubbed by the media as “the election whisperer.” Thau shared insights from his most recent research—helping the audience consider the viewpoints of the peculiar category of Americans who would, and how have, play a significant part in determining the outcome of the 2024 election.
13. Applied Peacebuilding through High Conflict: Lessons Learned around the World.  Michael Shipler '99, VP of Strategy at Search for Common Ground and interim CEO of Soliya, came to campus to discuss the impacts of polarization and the potential for political violence in the US, war and conflict in the Middle East, and how best to speak for peace and human rights in today’s world, whether on campus or in communities. 
14. On election day the CPGC worked with campus partners to get out the vote all day long.
15. Global Haverford Information, Networking, and Food. Cooperating with the Office of International Academic Programs, along with the Office of International Student Support, and faculty in globally-oriented programs, the CPGC celebrated International Education week and shared opportunities for internships abroad. 
16. Another Way: The Journey for a Just Peace in Israel & Palestine. With gratitude to alumni active in local and global peace organizing and activism, the CPGC supported  a campus visit from Combatants for Peace, attended by more than 150 persons, including small groups of faculty, students, administrators, and alumni. 
17. The US Ambassador to Ecuador was hosted by CPGC on campus for a presentation and conversation with students interested in foreign service careers all around the world. 
18. Power of Goodness Workshop and Summer Internship in Indonesia Information Session.  Led by the Peace Ministries Clerk of the Friends Peace Teams Nadine Hoover and CPGC Fellow Olivia Aguirre, this workshop featured discussions and stories of transformative power and how to create a broader culture of justice and peace. Participants also had the opportunity to learn more about a CPGC summer 2025 fellowship with Friends Peace Teams in Indonesia.
19. Philadelphia Justice and Equity Fellow (PJEF) Networking Event. In Center City on December 13, alumni, staff, faculty, PJEFs, and civic professionals and leaders will gather to share stories, interests, and understanding across the PJEF network, which represents an array of organizations advancing justice in the Greater Philadelphia Region, from HIAS Pennsylvania to the Human Rights Coalition, from the African Family Health Organization to Prevention Point, from the Kensington Corridor Trust to College Together.  
20. Advising Students toward 60+ Summer Fellowships in Philly and around the World. CPGC staff have updated summer internship partnership opportunities and begun advising for 2025 Summer Fellowships. If you’re a Haverford student interested in funded opportunities working with an organization advancing applied justice, inclusion, or sustainability work in the US or abroad, now is the time to make an advising appointment to learn more and/or strengthen your application! 
21. Aaaaaand… supporting facilitation of MtM Events such as Dinner with 12 Strangers on Nov 13 and the talk on Antisemitism and Blood Libel in Imperial Russia with Swarthmore Professor Robert Weinberg, as well as numerous PJEF cohort gatherings, including launching the semester with the annual orientation to local community engagement opportunities via the OSCC Celebrate Community Event, along with ongoing collaborative efforts with a range of organizations, such as hosting the Main Line Town Hall for the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, plus continuing to support community-engaged learning in linguistics through the ongoing activities of the Ticha Project and in Spanish through partnership with the New Sanctuary Movement - both of which are now further catalyzed through separate grant funding via Together with the Humanities, and much, much more….. 

TREMENDOUS THANKS TO CPGC FRIENDS, SUPPORTERS, AND PARTNERS! Happy Holidays and New Year.