Panel discusses advocacy, activism efforts at Notre Dame
On Tuesday, The National Student Speech Language and Hearing Association (NSSLHA) paired with the Saint Mary’s Student Diversity Board’s Diversity and Leadership Conference to present the story behind prominent sign language interpreter Matthew Maxey’s group, DEAFinitely Dope.
Professor Julia Faisst, assistant professor of American Studies at Germany’s Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt and the 2018 Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor at Notre Dame, delivered a lecture entitled “Nowhere Matters: The Unmaking Of The American Home”; an in-depth look at the concept of the home particularly for American college graduates and those displaced by evictions and foreclosures.