Solidarity on Tap is a simple gathering for socializing and social justice. The Ignatian Solidarity Network, Jesuit Volunteer Corps, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest, Jesuitical, and Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, Maryknoll Lay Missioners, along with other local partners welcome all to Solidarity on Tap | New York City.
Food and beverages (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) will be available for purchase. All are welcome (21 and over).
Around 7:15 PM there will be a reflection by Dr. Jocelyn Boryczka, Ph.D. from Fairfield University about radical Igantian hospitality and her time in Tanzania.
SPEAKER BIO:
Dr. Jocelyn M. Boryczka, Ph.D. is Associate Vice Provost for Scholarly, Creative, and Community Engagement and Professor of Politics at Fairfield University, and Editor of New Political Science: A Journal of Politics & Culture. She is a feminist political theorist who examines gender, sex, and sexuality through an intersectional lens to advance social justice particularly for the most vulnerable peoples in the United States and globally. Dr. Boryczka’s current book project is Globalization & Sex (Rowman and Littlefield). Her other books are Suspect Citizens: Women, Virtue, and Vice in Backlash Politics (Temple University Press, 2012), and Jesuit and Feminist Education: Intersections in Teaching and Learning in the Twenty-first Century (Fordham University Press, 2012) with Prof. Elizabeth Petrino.
Dr. Boryczka has been honored with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Visions Award 2015, the Connecticut ACE Women’s Network award for Distinguished Academic Woman in Higher Education Leadership Award 2014, and the 2006 Alpha Sigma Nu Best Teacher of the Year Award. She regularly travels to and works with educators at Loyola High School in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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