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In honor of the 2025 International Day of Peace, the Rockford University Forum Series will host Dr. Danielle Lake, Associate Professor and Director of Design Thinking at Lake University, for a workshop called, “Prototyping Plural Pathways Towards Peace: Situating, Storying, and Slipping.”

Held in conjunction with “In the Spirit of Jane Addams: Global Dialogue, Social Change, and Community Engagement in the 21st Century,” an international conference at the University of Warsaw in Poland, this interactive workshop is an invitation to reimagine plural pathways towards peace. Dr. Lake will share research on effective social systems changemaking, highlighting powerful stories and promising strategies from visionary changemakers like Jane Addams, Grace Lee Boggs, and Arturo Escobar.

Join student participants across the Rockford University campus and around the globe as they come together to frame, explore, generate, prototype, and cultivate situated strategies that transform practices and policies, shift resource flows, reshape unjust structures, build relationships, and generate tipping points.

The workshop will take place on Monday, September 22, beginning at 9:00 a.m. in Rockford University’s Fisher Chapel.

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Media are invited to attend and must RSVP by Thursday, September 18. For further information and to RSVP, please contact Kayla Eddy, Rockford University Marketing Coordinator, at keddy@rockford.edu.