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Book club kits will be distributed to select local schools. These kits include:
If you have questions, please contact the NYITCOM at A-State Library, comlibjb@nyit.edu.
The DEI Committee invites all NYITCOM students, staff, and faculty to join the DEI book club. The Same Page aims to foster a sense of community, educate individuals about DEI subjects and create a common conversation point among the entire NYITCOM community. The Same Page is representative of the fact that we all are moving forward together in thought and action, seeking understanding and growth within the Diversity, Equity Inclusion, and Belonging realm.
The Same Page will read two books each academic year, one in the fall semester and one in the spring semester. You will have the opportunity to participate in discussion groups with students and colleagues or you can choose to read at your own pace.
Books can be obtained through the NYITCOM libraries, local libraries, or your preferred book retailer.
Please contact Dr. Sloane Kelley (skelley@nyit.edu) for more information about the book club.
The Same Page is currently reading TO BE ANNOUNCED.
Previous Reads: Black Man in a White Coat (Fall 2021), The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills (Spring 2022), What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City (Fall 2023), Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto (Spring 2024)
To coincide with the exhibition, The Same Page will read What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Dr. Mona Hannah-Attisha.
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
"Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders, discovered that the children of Flint, Michigan, were being exposed to lead in their tap water—and then battled her own government and a brutal backlash to expose that truth to the world. Paced like a scientific thriller, What the Eyes Don’t See reveals how misguided austerity policies, broken democracy, and callous bureaucratic indifference placed an entire city at risk. And at the center of the story is Dr. Mona herself—an immigrant, doctor, scientist, and mother whose family’s activist roots inspired her pursuit of justice.
What the Eyes Don’t See is a riveting account of a shameful disaster that became a tale of hope, the story of a city on the ropes that came together to fight for justice, self-determination, and the right to build a better world for their—and all of our—children."