Name: Making Sanctuary People
Start: 2025-01-23T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-01-23T19:30:00-06:00
Location: DePaul University - Lincoln Park Student Center Rm. 325

Gina Pérez, PhD, explores how sanctuary practices aided Ohio's Latin@ immigrants between 2016-20 & why such efforts are still critical.
About this Event

:: Registration will open in early January ::

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6:00pm ~ Dinner for in-person guests, including pan dulce y café (limited seating)
6:30pm ~ Livestreamed discussion begins
LIVESTREAM LINK: Will be posted here & e-mailed to all registrants a few days before the event. (PLEASE NOTE: We use Facebook Live, but you do not need a Facebook account to use the link and watch the livestream. )

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For this 2nd talk of the "Catolicismo, Cultura y Comida" series** organized by CWCIT and Tepeyac/Catholic Campus Ministry, we welcome of Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH).

The idea and practice of sanctuary have a long and vexed presence in U.S. political discourse, community organizing, and social movements. In this talk (and her most recent book), Dr. Gina Pérez explores the ways activists, service providers, and faith leaders and religious communities drew on long histories of faith-based and secular organizing to mobilize and respond to the precarity of Latina/o communities in Ohio from 2016-2020. Enduring attacks on immigrants in Ohio throughout the 2024 presidential election, including disinformation about Haitian immigrants and Haitian migrants, affirm the need to highlight efforts to create and disseminate narratives that challenge anti-immigrant rhetoric and to nurture sanctuary practices and people.

**Limited seating; dinner will be served
:: Cover Image ::
Part of the cover of Dr. Pérez's book, (NYU Press, 2024)

:: ABOUT THE SPEAKER ::
Gina Pérez is a cultural anthropologist and professor and chair of the Department of Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH). She is the author of two award-winning books: and . Her new book, , explores sanctuary movements and practices with and among Latinas/os in Ohio from 2016-2020.