In this episode, Dian drops a ton of wisdom about the need for creativity, imagination, and risk-taking to address issues of social justice. He echoes the work of Grace Lee Boggs, to revolutionize our minds and offers questions and strategies to nourish a creative spirit. Dian offers a response to dialogues about self-care and draws connections to resources in the field of leisure studies that offer alternative frameworks. He shares more about his work today that aims to humanize black folx in a world that perpetuates anti-black racism and dehumanizes black community members. Dian provides guidance from his experiences in student affairs, faculty, and researcher roles. He then highlights several resources to add to your social justice reading list to close out our time together.
About Dian:
Dian is an assistant professor of counseling-student affairs at northern arizona university. He was previously a visiting assistant professor at Iowa State University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Univ of Denver. He is a first-generation college student, bi-racial Asian American queer man who studies race and racism in higher education. He is an occasional triathlete, an always-foodie, and literally cannot breathe right now at 7000 ft elevation in Flagstaff.
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