Dickinson Law Antiracist Development Institute News

ADI Mini Convening 2025 ANTIRACIST DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE MINI CONVENING

February 2025 — On May 15-16, 2025, the Antiracist Development Institute in collaboration with Penn State Lehigh Valley will host a mini convening in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania at the Historic Hotel Bethlehem. Learn more

Logo ANTIRACIST DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE PODS SPARK CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS AND IDEAS FOR CHANGE

February 2025 — Leaders in the Continuing Education department at Penn State University had been mulling ways to develop a noncredit antiracist leadership certificate when they learned about the Penn State Dickinson Law Antiracist Development Institute (ADI) last spring. Full story

ADI Convening SECOND ANNUAL ANTIRACIST DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (ADI) CONVENING SPREADS JOY AND SPARKS EXCITEMENT

December 2024 — More than 100 people gathered at Penn State Dickinson Law in October for the Second Annual Antiracist Development Institute (ADI) Convening, three days of networking, sharing, and growing together to create an antiracist law school, legal academy, and legal profession. Full story

Eddie Glaude Jr. EDDIE GLAUDE JR. DELIVERS POWERFUL KEYNOTE ADDRESS ON VOTING RIGHTS AT SECOND ANNUAL ADI CONVENING

October 2024 — The nation faces a choice that goes beyond red or blue this November, according to Eddie Glaude Jr., the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University and a New York Times bestselling author. Full story

Logo ANTIRACIST DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE HOLDING OCTOBER CONVENING ‘OPEN TO ALL’ AT PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW

September 2024 — The Antiracist Development Institute (ADI) will hold its second annual convening on October 16-18 at Penn State Dickinson Law. Full story

ADI logo PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW BEGINS ANTIRACIST DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE SCALE-UP

July 2024 — On June 17, nearly five dozen members of the Penn State community gathered at the University Park campus to launch the Penn State Dickinson Law Antiracist Development Institute (ADI) scale-up. The “POD” launch event provided participants with information about how they will be divided into focus groups (aka PODs) to develop projects that disrupt systemic racial inequality and intersectional injustice across the Penn State University ecosystem. Full story

ADI logo ADI WRITING WORKSHOP AT HYDE PARK BUILDS NEW CONNECTIONS AND INSPIRES NEW DREAMS

May 2024 — Hana Palazzo entered the recent Writing Workshop held by Penn State Dickinson Law’s Antiracist Development Institute (ADI) uncertain about what the ADI was and why it mattered. She left with a new mission and sense of belonging. Full story

Logo ADI INVITES MEMBERS OF THE PENN STATE HOLOCAUST, GENOCIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION INITIATIVE TO DICKINSON LAW

April 2024 — In March, Penn State Dickinson Law’s Antiracist Development Institute (ADI) invited members of Penn State’s Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Initiative to Dickinson Law to share knowledge and explore future collaboration opportunities. Full story

logo DICKINSON LAW SCALING ANTIRACIST DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE TO SUPPORT UNIVERSITY-WIDE EXPANSION

April 2024 — Penn State University will fund a significant scale-up of the ADI to support and grow strong, interdependent partnerships and collectives to advance institutional antiracism and active diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) through the use of systems design and critical pedagogy frameworks. Full story

logo ANTIRACIST DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE HOSTS WRITING WORKSHOP IN APRIL AT HYDE PARK

April 2024 — Penn State Dickinson Law’s Antiracist Development Institute (ADI) will hold a Writing Workshop this spring at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum at Hyde Park. Full story