All of history is stories When we realize that personal narratives shape and define our larger shared history, individuals and the community gain perspective. This is the goal of our newest …
Harm & Repair: Embracing Conflict as Social Change, Tuesday, January 18, 2022, 7:00 pm
Raise your hand if you’ve experienced hurt in a social justice context. Organizing for social change can be fraught with conflict, reactivity and even, sometimes, lasting brokenness that weakens the …
Jewish Studies Spring Signature Class – Together and Apart: The Future of Jewish Peoplehood
Jewish Studies and the Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte are thrilled to present “Together and Apart: The Future of Jewish Peoplehood.” This a 12-Week Course on Wednesdays, 12:30 to 2:00 …
Listening Project to learn from 80 years of Charlotte Social Justice Organizing gets Launched
On Monday, October 25, 2021, we gathered to launch our “Listening Project to learn from 80 years of Charlotte Social Justice Organizing: wins, losses and learning.” We were blown away …
Social Justice Update – Refugees from Afghanistan and Affordable Housing
Immigrant Justice Team and Refugees from Afghanistan – For five years, refugee and immigrant education and advocacy has been an issue of focus for the Stan Greenspon Center. As the …
Meet our New Scholar Activists
The Greenspon Center is committed to strengthening social justice movements by training and educating community members to become impactful organizers and sustaining changemakers in the many and diverse personal and …
Major gift transforms the future of the Greenspon Center
Five short years ago, in 2016, Queens University of Charlotte launched the Stan Greenspon Center for Peace and Social Justice, inspired by Stan Greenspon’s vision for Holocaust education, the university’s …
The soil on which we stand
This talk was delivered at the Restorative Justice Two Year Reflection at Little Rock AME Zion in Charlotte, NC, August 22, 2021 Thank you to Dr. Walker for hosting us. …
Sacred Threads: The Complex Tapestry of Interfaith Relations
Join us on Sunday, September 11, 2022 from 1:00 – 7:00pm for a half-day conference of reflections and conversation about the changing nature of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian interfaith work …
Queens Alum join together to create Belk Chapel Jewish-Muslim Interfaith Initiative
By Mohammed Jibriel (Class of 2019), former president of Queens’ Muslim Student Association (Salam), and Noah Goldman (Class of 2019), former president of Queens’ Jewish Student Association (Hillel). “So great …