Engaging Dialogue at CU
The CU Dialogues Program supports the campus community by offering dialogues across differences, dialogue facilitation skill development, and providing strategic support to campus partners in building capacity for successful organizational culture change. Additionally, we collaborate with campus units to engage staff, faculty, students, and community members in dialogue mixers.
What is a Dialogue Mixer?
CU Dialogues understands dialogue mixer as a semi-structured interactive dialogue session designed to encourage participants to engage in meaningful conversations with a variety of people in a short amount of time. The goal of a dialogue mixer is to facilitate the exchange of diverse perspectives, promote radical listening, and foster a sense of community.
2024 Juneteenth Address and Dialogue Mixer
Dr. Danielle Hodge
Dr. Danielle Hodge is an Assistant Professor of Communication at 91PORN, where she specializes in African American Studies, critical race theory, and critical hip hop studies. As an award-winning scholar-teacher, Dr. Hodge's work is a profound exploration of how racism and its intersecting oppressions are embedded in our everyday talk, communicative practices, institutions, and overall society.
Dr. Hodge is a 2024-2025 Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) Faculty Fellow and a 2024-2025 Andrew W. Mellon Civic Engagement and Voting Rights Teacher Scholar. In 2023, she was named the Inaugural Lecture Series Speaker for The Center for African and African American Studies.
In 2021, Dr. Hodge delivered a Juneteenth Keynote titled "Liberatory Love and Freedom: Radical Reenvisionings” for the University of Colorado Four-Campus System. This year’s address builds on that foundation and introduces humanizing imagination as a transformative approach to shared equity leadership. Dr. Hodge presents humanizing imagination as a framework that merges humanizing equity with radical imagination, offering sociopolitical possibilities for achieving equity.
Participants were asked, what was the most impactful part of Dr. Danielle Hodge’s Juneteenth address for you?
"The idea that we all have the agency and ability and obligation to engage in collective imagination and action to shift our communities beyond anti-blackness."
"Dr. Hodge's address was very meaningful for me. I was impacted by Dr. Hodge's invitation to imagine as a revolutionary act. Her description and imagery of Black joy was beautiful, powerful, and moving."
"The presentation and delivery was top notch incredible. I loved how she used narrative stories to bring the viewers in and candor that really grounded the address and made it thought provoking and inspiring."
A dialogue mixer followed the Juneteenth Address
