Dwight Hall Community Hour

Students and New Haven Community Members are welcome to join Dwight Hall’s staff in the Dwight Hall Library for a Friday “Community Hour.” Enjoy Fall-themed refreshments (and possibly Halloween candy) while meeting other leaders at Dwight Hall and in the community.

James Jeter, Dwight Hall’s Director of Civic Allyship will be our featured staff guest this week. We will have some brief guided conversation around the transformative potential of civic allyship and how students can develop skills for deep partnership with community leaders.

About the Dwight Hall Civic Allyship:
Dwight Hall’s Civic Allyship Initiative is elevating the existing work of community organizers in New Haven and beyond. The program confronts complex social challenges, convening criminal justice advocates, grassroots activists, currently and formerly incarcerated people, students, and professors in equitable relationships through workshops, trainings, and research. Together, these allies are utilizing new grassroots organizing strategies, developing opportunities for underrepresented populations in civic leadership, and laying the groundwork for substantive policy reforms.