{"id":47375,"date":"2016-06-06T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47375"},"modified":"2016-06-06T18:51:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T18:51:08","slug":"mixed-student-union-hosts-fourth-annual-heritage-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47375","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Student Union Hosts Fourth Annual Heritage Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed Student Union Hosts Fourth Annual Heritage Conference<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Pacific Ties<\/a>
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles
\n2016-05-13<\/p>\n

Ayesha Sheikh<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

UCLA\u2019s Mixed Student Union<\/a> (MSU) hosted their fourth annual Mixed Heritage Conference on April 30 in the James West Alumni Center. The organization\u2019s goal for hosting the conference on campus, according to the organization\u2019s co-director Ariel Pezner<\/a>, was to spread awareness of mixed identity among student audiences within UCLA as well as circles of mixed groups outside UCLA.<\/p>\n

The reach of the organization\u2019s efforts go well beyond the campus, with its connections to several other student organizations such as those at the University of Southern California. Chelsea Strong, co-director of MSU alongside Pezner, shared that the conference was the biggest event hosted by the organization to attract students, staff, and faculty of all backgrounds \u201cto get a chance to learn critically about mixed heritage.\u201d To manifest the appropriate space for this exchange of ideas and learning, prominent speakers from various mixed backgrounds were invited to speak.<\/p>\n

The keynote Speaker Dr. Velina Hasu Houston<\/a>, who wrote her senior thesis at UCLA and received her doctorate from USC, is recognized locally and internationally for her analytical playwriting on genres of mixed heritage, a topic often overlooked as \u201ctoo uninteresting\u201d for the arts.<\/p>\n

The conference brought into projection the importance of using art as a medium to communicate beyond the subjects of the composition itself. Among Dr. Houston\u2019s most renowned works is \u201cTea, with Music\u201d and \u201cCinnamon Girl.\u201d She is a leadership force for many organizations such as HapaSC, a mixed heritage organization at USC, and Multiracial Americans of Southern California<\/a> (MASC), whose mission statement is \u201cto advocate for and foster multiracial community and identity.\u201d….<\/p>\n

…Some of the other organizations\u2019 representatives in attendance included Dr. Chandra Crudup, from One Drop of Love<\/em><\/a> and the co-director of Mixed Roots Stories<\/a> (MRS), who sponsored the conference. In addition to teaching at Arizona State University, Dr. Crudup is also a social worker. She said, \u201cRace is in the face a lot more than in the past,\u201d and that there needs to be a healthy way to deal with social justice issues. She spoke on what a healthy lifestyle looks like, a survival guide to not getting \u201cjaded out by issues that affect life at work and socially.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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