May 25, 2022
Transforming How We Work with Multilingual Communities: A Language Justice Workshop
Asia Pacific Cultural Center 4851 S Tacoma Way, Tacoma, WA 98409 June 22nd, 4:00-6:30pm Email Alison Cardinal, acardin@uw.edu, with questions. Workshop Description In this 1.5 hour workshop, followed by a 1 hour celebration, the Designing Language Access group will present the concept of language justice as a new framework and approach to language access for…
December 17, 2020
Advisory Letter to Tacoma Police Department on Language Access
In December of 2020, our group sent the following letter to 21CP Solutions, a consulting company hired to make recommendations to Tacoma Police Department to provide guidance for making language access a cornerstone to community policing. We are writing to echo the demands made by the Commission of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs (CIRA) and offer…
August 20, 2020
Critiquing Language Access in the Puget Sound
One of the main goals of the Designing Language Access group is to come together to surface the most pressing issues surrounding language access in the Puget Sound that can be solved through design. To get that work started, we (Alison Cardinal and Emma Rose) facilitated a Future Workshop, an approach that has a long…