Events

DocArts Series Fall 2026

The “DocArts” Initiative is an outgrowth of decades of justice-oriented multimedia production and creation by WSU faculty. DocArts is working to integrate multimedia production across the curriculum for air on local, national, and international platforms. The initiative foregrounds the healing, restorative, regenerative nature of our work at the intersections of multicultural knowledges, multimedia production, and the arts. Within a framework of collective community care and “Culture as Prevention,” DocArts fosters community-based and culturally centered collaborations, community health, well being, and resilience.

The DocArts Series emerged as an urgent response to media consolidation, censorship and defunding of public media. The series illuminates and bears witness to multiple and intersecting forms of planetary injustice and colonial–imperialist atrocities.

Co-sponsored by The Collective for Social and Environmental Justice and Native American Programs at WSU Vancouver, the series is free and open to the public. All events are hybrid and accessible via Zoom and are being recorded for broadcast on KXRW, KBOO, and Open Signal Cable Television.

Upcoming Events

September 18, 12 to 1 pm, Professor Bibhushana Poudyal

digital storytelling (location TBA)

on Zoom: https://bit.ly/4xKkv7L(passcode: DocArts26)

Bibhushana Poudyal is a Nepali Assistant Professor of English at Washington State University (WSU). She is from Nepal where she completed her MPhil in English and taught graduate and undergraduate courses on literary studies, cultural criticism, and writing. She completed her PhD from the University of Texas, El Paso.

Her research, teaching, administrative, and service interests are grounded in anti-oppressive approaches to Internationalist Feminist Rhetorics, Global South Rhetorics, Public Rhetorics, Critical Cultural Rhetorics, Technical and Professional Communication, and Digital and Multimodal Humanities, Archives, Storytelling, Writing, and Literacies.

September 25, 12 to 1 pm, Courtney Boswell

radio/podcast production (location TBA)

on Zoom: https://bit.ly/4xKkv7L(passcode: DocArts26)

Courtney Boswell graduated in Spring 2026 with a degree in Psychology from Washington State University Vancouver and is pursuing a Master’s  degree in Psychology at Seattle Pacific University. Courtney has served as an organizer with the Collective for Social and Environmental Justice at Washington State University Vancouver and is working with the Vancouver-based nonprofit Odyssey World International to teach radio production to high schoolers in conjunction with KXRW Radio. She is working on a radio documentary based on her August 2026 trip to Hiroshima, Japan as part of a delegation with Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility focused on nuclear disarmament.

October 2, 12 to 1 pm, Professor Ivan Gonzalez-Soto

radio/podcast production and digital comics (location TBA)

on Zoom: https://bit.ly/4xKkv7L(passcode: DocArts26)

Ivan González-Soto is an Assistant Professor of Latinx History with research and teaching interests in labor studies, social history, US-Mexico borderlands, the U.S. American West, and critical histories of race, ethnicity, and agriculture. He specializes in Mexican American history, farmworkers, and the relationship between labor, leisure, and built environments. His interdisciplinary scholarship is inspired by publicly accessible, community-engaged research in the form of comic books and graphic novels.

His current book project highlights the ways in which ethnic Mexican farmworkers and their allies contested and negotiated space and power relations in Southern California’s Imperial Valley during the late twentieth century. Through this work, he examines the intersections between agricultural labor, land disputes, and environmental justice and demonstrates that everyday, working-class people in rural California’s Imperial Valley were not passive historical actors in the context of monopolistic, speculative financing on rural lands, but active members of society who contested their surroundings.

October 19, 12 to 1 pm, Professor Shameem Rakha

radio production with Chicago middle schoolers (location TBA)

on Zoom: https://bit.ly/4xKkv7L(passcode: DocArts26)

Shameem Rakha is an assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Washington State University.  Prior to becoming a professor, she taught for 17 years at the elementary and middle school levels.  She received her Ph.D. in Educational Policy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013. She is very interested in increasing equity in our schools for students of color.  Her research examines the use of culturally relevant pedagogy to increase student engagement and improve student academic outcomes.  Recently, she has been looking specifically at ways to cultivate caring relationships between teachers and students, particularly in situations where there is a mismatch between the cultures of these groups.

At WSU, Professor Rakha teach Elementary Social Studies methods, Multicultural Education, Social Foundations of Education, and Race and Racial Identity in Education across several programs in the College of Education including the BA, MIT-E, MIT-S, Ed.M., and Ed.D. programs.

October 16, 12 to 1 pm, Joey Clift

writing for TV and film (location TBA)

on Zoom: https://bit.ly/4xKkv7L(passcode: DocArts26)

Joey Clift is a Los Angeles-based, Peabody and 2x Emmy Award-nominated comedian, writer, director, producer and enrolled member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.

Joey attended college to become a local TV weather person because as a kid he didn’t see any Native American comedians on television, and that made him believe he wasn’t allowed to work in comedy. Since then he has learned that this is not true – and his comedy style reflects that. Joey’s work has been featured in The Washington Post, Pitchfork, NPR, Dead Meat, Dropout and Comedy Central.

As a television writer, Joey has written for shows such as Spirit Rangers on Netflix, Molly of Denali on PBS, Lego Ninjago: Decoded on Cartoon Network, Smartypants and Toonout on Dropout, and Paw Patrol and Rubble & Crew on Nickelodeon. Joey Clift created Gone Native, a Webby Award-winning Comedy Central Digital series featuring many of today’s top Native American comedians, and his short films have screened everywhere from Just For Laughs to the Smithsonian Museum.

October 23, 12 to 1 pm, Isha Sara Snow

producing for Open Signal Cable Television (location TBA)

on Zoom: https://bit.ly/4xKkv7L(passcode: DocArts26)

Isha Snow is a WSU Vancouver undergraduate, the Founder and Executive Director of NeuroHomes Foundation and the host of a new talk show on Open Signal Cable Television Autism Standpoint Theory. In her work with NeuroHomes, she serves as a Social Systems Navigator dedicated to creating innovative, community-centered solutions for neurodivergent adults. Through NeuroHomes, Isha leads the development of affordable, supportive housing communities that integrate essential services and prioritize the lived experiences of the individuals they serve. Their work focuses on bridging the gaps between housing, healthcare, advocacy, and social support while advancing a vision of inclusive communities rooted in dignity, accessibility, and belonging.

Isha’s professional and academic journey reflects a deep commitment to social justice, education, and systems transformation. They are currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a minor in Anthropology at Washington State University Vancouver and have completed the requirements for a Social and Environmental Justice Certification through the university. Isha previously earned an Associate of Arts transfer degree in 2024 with a 3.92 GPA and was recognized as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa All-State Academic Team. Before founding NeuroHomes, Isha spent nearly a decade as a Head Start preschool teacher, where they developed a strong foundation in childhood development, education, and community advocacy.

Past Events

SPRING 2026 DocArts Series

An event flyer featuring the following information: Kent Ford Co-founder of the Portland, Oregon Chapter of the Black Panther Wed 2/18 VFSC 101 A Thousand Pines Film Screening Dr. Noam Osband Talk and Q&A Thurs 2/19 VECS 105 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM Silent Voices Film Screening Donna Hayes Playwright/Activist, Director of Silent Voices Kendall Director/Photographer Wed 2/25 VDEN 110 Talilo Musician/Youth Advocate Yolotli X Organizer/Farmer Wed 3/4 VDEN 110

Teach-in on the Crisis in Palestine & Israel Resources

CSEJ began hosting teach-ins in on the crisis in November of 2023. The series continues in partnership with the student organizations S4P and Survivors United.

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CSEJ Meeting

May 03, 2022, 1:00 PM
Zoom Meeting
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CSEJ Meeting

Apr 20, 2022, 12:00 PM
Zoom Meeting
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CSEJ Meeting

Apr 05, 2022, 1:30 PM
Zoom Meeting
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CSEJ Meeting

Mar 23, 2022, 12:00 PM
Zoom Meeting

VIDEOS OF 2022 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY EVENTS

Federal Recognition and Indigenous Sovereignty Panel 10/12/2022
Free the Snake and Nimiipuu Canoe project: A Healing Journey and Talk with Julian Matthews 10/13/2022