Fall 2020 Events

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  Latinxs and the Covid-19 Pandemic
  On October 27, 2020, Dr. Gabriel R. Sanchez conducted a presentation on Latinxs and the Covid-19 Pandemic. Dr. Gabriel Sanchez is a Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico and also serves as the Executive Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy and Co-Director of the Institute of […]
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  Mobilized by Injustice
  On October 8, 2020, RIPI kicked off its inaugural virtual speaker event with Dr. Hannah Walker’s presentation of her latest book, Mobilized by Injustice: Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation and Race (available for purchase here).  Dr. Hannah L. Walker is an assistant professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research examines the impact […]
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  The Latinx Vote and the 2020 Election
  On October 14, 2020, Dr. Betina Cutaia Wilkinson (Associate Chair & Associate Professor of the Politics and International Affairs department) discussed her research on the Latinx Vote in the 2020 Elections. A Q & A session followed her research presentation.

The land on which Wake Forest University now resides and the land on which the original campus resided served for centuries as a place for exchange and interaction for Indigenous peoples, specifically Saura, Catawba, Cherokee, and Lumbee in the current location and Shakori, Eno, Sissipahaw, and Occaneechi in the original campus location.

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