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2024 Juneteenth Address: Loving Blackness and Humanizing Imagination: (Re)engaging Shared Equity Leadership

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Dr. Danielle Hodge

Dr. Danielle Hodge is an Assistant Professor of Communication at CU 羞羞视频, where she specializes in African American Studies, critical race theory, and critical hip hop studies. As an award-winning scholar-teacher, Dr. Hodge's work is a profound exploration of how racism and its intersecting oppressions are embedded in our everyday talk, communicative practices, institutions, and overall society.听

Dr. Hodge is a 2024-2025 Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) Faculty Fellow and a 2024-2025 Andrew W. Mellon Civic Engagement and Voting Rights Teacher Scholar. In 2023, she was named the Inaugural Lecture Series Speaker for The Center for African and African American Studies.听

In 2021, Dr. Hodge delivered a Juneteenth Keynote titled "Liberatory Love and Freedom: Radical Reenvisionings鈥� for the University of Colorado Four-Campus System. This year鈥檚 address builds on that foundation and introduces humanizing imagination as a transformative approach to shared equity leadership. Dr. Hodge presents humanizing imagination as a framework that merges humanizing equity with radical imagination, offering sociopolitical possibilities for achieving equity.

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Participants were听asked, what was the most impactful part of Dr. Danielle Hodge鈥檚 Juneteenth address for you?听

"The idea that we all have the agency and ability and obligation to engage in collective imagination and action to shift our communities beyond anti-blackness."

听"Dr. Hodge's address was very meaningful for me. I was impacted by Dr. Hodge's invitation to imagine as a revolutionary act. Her description and imagery of Black joy was beautiful, powerful, and moving."

"The presentation and delivery was top notch incredible. I loved how she used narrative stories to bring the viewers in and candor that really grounded the address and made it thought provoking and inspiring."

People talking in diads at dialogue mixer

Participants at the Juneteenth Address were invited to join a dialogues mixer the following day.听听

What is a Dialogue Mixer?

CU Dialogues understands dialogue mixer as a semi-structured interactive dialogue session designed to encourage participants to engage in meaningful conversations with a variety of people in a short amount of time. The goal of a dialogue mixer is to facilitate the exchange of diverse perspectives, promote radical listening, and foster a sense of community.

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