Julie Shayne, Martha Groom, and Jade Power-Sotomayor present at the 76th Annual Society for Applied Anthropology Conference

IAS faculty member Julie Shayne organized a session on 鈥淢aking Activism Matter: Research, Teaching, and Promotion鈥� at the Annual Society for Applied Anthropology . Shayne’s contribution to the session was 鈥淯niversity Presses and Activist Scholarship/.鈥� Jade Power-Sotomayor presented a paper 鈥淭urning Bodies Into Words: The Politics of Legibility and Community Dance/ing with Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba,” while Martha Groom concluded the session with 鈥淔raming Activist Research in Promotion and Career Advancement.鈥� In addition to these three IAS faculty members, Kara Adams, Interim Director of UWB鈥檚 Office of Community-Based Research and Learning, discussed 鈥淐ommunity-Based Learning and Research as a Pedagogy to Expose Students to Activism.鈥� Rachel Luft, an associate professor at Seattle University, was also part of the session with her paper 鈥溾�淭he Politics of Activist Research: Stories of Un/Accountability.鈥�