Prolonging the Fight for Fairness

a conversation with David Carlson on criminal justice reform

David Carlson, regional organizer for the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin, campaigns for equality for all individuals, particularly for those who identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of color ...

Forum Aims to Connect Community on Healthcare

planned forum, conference aimed at fostering understanding among HMoob residents and health systems

Though Eau Claire has been home to one of the largest groups of HMoob people in the state for almost 50 years, this group still faces several challenges when navigating healthcare. During her time at Mayo Clinic Health System, Liz Moua ...

DIVERSITY BRIEFS | December 2019

The UW System gave the 2019 Dr. P.B. Poorman Award for Outstanding Achievement on Behalf of LGBTQ+ People to UW-Stout Professor Markie L.C. Twist and UW-Eau Claire's Dr. Silviana Amethyst ...

Black and Brown Womyn Power Coalition fights against sexual assault and gender-based violence

The Black and Brown Womyn Power Coalition was co-founded by community organizer and previous director of the Hmong Mutual Assistance Association, Pa Thao, who saw that the ...

Come Together: Brothers infuse culture and community at Menomonie café

Ali, Ahmed, Feras, Yousef, Elyas, and Ammar Ameer don’t all live in the Midwest; two of them live in the brothers’ native Saudi Arabia. Yet over the distance, the sextet collaborated to open 6B, a coffee and ...

Support Among Friends

local group provides community to LGBTQ teachers and students alike

Last spring, a new effort to slow down or eliminate the number of LGBTQ teachers who leave the profession for identity-related reasons formed. The LGBTQ Teacher Mentor Group, meets approximately twice a semester to maintain ...

Taking the Next Steps: Networking, education uplifts the next generation of Hmong leaders

Networking events can be “transactional,” according to Mai Xiong. There are unspoken rules and expectations, and one must understand what they ...

Using Pain as Propane

UWEC’s Dennis Beale works to inspire young black men in college, the community

Dennis Beale doesn’t need coffee to get going on a cold winter morning. All he needs are text messages from some of the many UW-Eau Claire students he’s ...

How diverse are we? Take a look at the Chippewa Valley's racial and ethnic makeup ...

Figures for the racial and ethnic background of Chippewa Valley residents are relatively easy to track down, courtesy of the U.S. Census Bureau. They show a region that is growing more diverse, but ...

Developing Stories

UW-Eau Claire and UW-Stout honors and diversity news