May Helena Plumb @mayhplumb This is the twelfth in a series of blog posts by participants in the 2019 ACLS Digital Extension Grant project “Ticha: advancing community-engaged digital scholarship” (PI Lillehaugen) published on GlobalSL / Community-based Global Learning Collaborative and Ticha. Previous blog posts are available here: (1) Lillehaugen/January 2020; (2) Flores-Marical/February 2020; (3) Kawan-Hemler/March 2020; (4) Lopez/July 2020; (5) Kadlecek/1 August 2020; (6) García Guzmán/15 August 2020; (7) Park/September 2020; (8) Zarafonetis/October 2020, (9) J. Lopez/Nov 2020, (10) Velasco Vasquez/February 2021, (11) Lillehaugen/March 2021. The Ticha team started 2020 with a few goals: expand the resources available on the Ticha website, write a set of pedagogical materials, and workshop those pedagogical materials with Zapotec community members. Knowing little of what was to come, we started making big plans. In a meeting last December, the team took some time to reflect on what we had actually accomplished in 2020. Many of our original plans did not work out in the…

On March 22, 2021, the Community-based Global Learning Collaborative hosted Ethics, Equity, and Online Global Learning: Fair Trade Learning, Virtually. When global education became virtual global education, program decisions impacted communities around the world. Particularly among organizations that have built their program models from community-driven and community-based principles, the move to virtual presented significant questions regarding whether to move forward, and how. Presenters from Amizade, Child Family Health International, and Omprakash shared how they have grappled through these decisions, what they have learned, and how their virtual models align with the ethical practices of Fair Trade Learning. Hear from: Brandon Blache-Cohen, Executive Director, Amizade Jessica Evert, MD, Executive Director, Child Family Health International  Willy Oppenheim, Founder and Co-Director, Omprakash 00:00 – Dr. Nora Reynolds introduces the event and panelists 04:25 – Brandon Blache-Cohen, Amizade 20:00 – Willy Oppenheim, Omprakash 32:22 – Jessica Evert, MD, Child Family Health International 43:50 – Q&A

Reiterating the alliances between South Asian Americans and Irish Americans in early 1900s Philadelphia shows us the power of re-learning an accurate history. On Tuesday, March 16th, 2021, Remixing Revolution with Philly’s South Asian American Digital Archive highlighted how the lessons from this history could be implemented within the classroom. The event was co-sponsored by the PA Council for International Education and the Community-based Global Learning Collaborative housed in the Haverford College Center for Peace and Global Citizenship. Siobhan Lyons, a former Irish Diplomat and President of Philadelphia’s Citizen Diplomacy International, began the night with her introduction on the solidarity in common struggle against British imperialism, connecting India with Ireland. Soon after, we heard from Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher, Senior Lecturer at Penn GSE, as well as Imran Siddiquee, a filmmaker, writer, speaker, and activist who collaborates with the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). Imran’s walkthrough of the SAADA historic Philadelphia tour’s key aspects demonstrated the power of storytelling to restore…