Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) Special Interest Section (SIS) June 2021 Meetings

Samantha (Sam) Wallenberg, MS, OTD, OT, one of four co-chairs of ILOTA's new Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) Special Interest Section (SIS), wanted to share with all members the information below about two upcoming free meetings. No need to pre-register - just send an email message to [email protected] for the Zoom link.

The COTAD Connections Meeting will be on Thursday, June 24 @ 6:30pm:
** We will be discussing the following:
- Initiatives/events that universities/colleges or COTAD members have been or will be doing.
- Addressing questions that universities/colleges or COTAD members may have regarding what initiatives/events they could do or help them problem-solve through ones they plan on doing. Or giving each other ideas on initiatives/events.
- Discuss what upcoming educational event COTAD Connections (by the ILOTA JEDI SIS) can do. In other words, what do the ILOTA COTAD Chapters or Members need??
- Discuss the ILOTA JEDI SIS.
- Open to anything else! Please send us an email message if you have any other ideas!! **

The JEDI SIS Committee will be on Tuesday, June 29 @ 5:00pm:
** We will be discussing the terms Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at our next meeting in order to come up with a unified understanding. Start thinking about what these terms mean to you and how you would define them. **

Thank you!

ILOTA JEDI SIS co-chairs: 

Sam Wallenberg

Divya Sood

Lillian Chen-Byerley

Dalmina Arias