Diversity

Diversity and Inclusion

Fighting to Build on Tradition

On the Navajo Nation, a territory encompassing 27,000 square miles across Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, sits a lone Catholic school — Saint Michael Indian School. There, 400...

Fighting to Understand the Scientific Impact of Community

Playing in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro are 300 baboons that are the focus of one of the longest-running studies of wild primates. For more than 40 years, these Amboseli...

Women Trailblazers in the Law: Margaret Brinig and Nell Jessup Newton

Margaret Brinig, who retired from Notre Dame Law School in 2019 as the Fritz Duda Family Chair in Law, and Nell Jessup Newton, who served as the Law School’s Joseph A. Matson...

Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity: An Inclusive Look at Title VII

Professor Steve Sanders of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, attorney Eduardo Juarez of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Kimberly Hively, the named...

Football, Civil Rights, and Doing Justice: A Conversation with Justice Alan Page

Notre Dame Law School welcomed Justice Alan Page of the Minnesota Supreme Court to speak on October 11, 2019. Justice Page, who earned his bachelor’s degree from the University...

Human Dignity, Belonging, and Caring for Others

Finding community in college can be difficult, but it can be especially difficult when you feel like you don’t belong. Shelene shares the struggles she faced her first few years...

Healing Racism Through Faith

Preserving hope in the face of racism has been both challenging and elusive for Native Americans due to historical trauma from government policies of genocide, annihilation,...

Becoming a Just Church

Justice often gets characterized as a project, something we go out in the world to do and check a box–but justice needs to first be about the kind of people we are rather than...

Father Joseph Brown Keynote – 2019 Diversity & Inclusion Conference

Father Joseph Brown gave his keynote during the the 2019 Diversity & Inclusion Conference, inspired by Catholic Social Teaching and titled Open Minds, Loving Hearts & An Engaged...

The Option for the Poor and Christian Theology

Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, O.P., professor emertus of theology at the University of Notre Dame, is well known as the one of the foundational thinkers of liberation theology. In this...

Challenges to Poverty Eradication in the 21st Century: Insights from Catholic Social Thought

Professor Charles Clark was a keynote speaker at the 2019 Catholic Social Tradition conference, sponsored by the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame. The...