# Advisor Enrichment Opportunities: Staff Support and Getting Involved in AC

**Source**: https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/advisors/advisor-enrichment
**Parent**: https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/

## Topics

- [Environmental Justice topic page](/topics/environmental-justice)
- [Teaching & Working in Troubled Times topic page](/topics/teaching-working-troubled-times)
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## About

This section features multiple AC programs and opportunities that support advisors in their professional development and deepen their involvement with the American Cultures Center's programs. As valued staff members who play an essential role in bringing students into all that AC has to offer, we encourage advisors and advising teams to check out the resources and opportunities available for them to develop their own understanding of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice in their roles.

## Key Opportunities for Advisors

## [Environmental Justice Initiative](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/environmental-justice-initiative)

A collaborative partnership with the American Cultures Center and the Student Environmental Resource Center’s Decolonial Environmental Network (DEN), the Environmental Justice Initiative intends to create space on campus for collective learning, research, and mobilization around anti-colonial environmental education. We welcome students, faculty, and staff to join the advisory board and task forces in order to help contribute to initiatives that will institutionalize this critical work. [Learn more](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/environmental-justice-initiative)

## [Teaching and Working in Troubled Times Workshops](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/twtt)

The Teaching and Working in Troubled Times series (formerly 'Teaching in Troubled Times') began in 2017 as a series of timely dialogues elevating some of the most pressing social and political questions that enter our lives and our classrooms. The series has fermented vibrant discussion and delivered ‘on-the-ground’ tools to support our students’ complex lives. From what to do if ICE comes to the classroom to knowing our rights in uncertain times, this series offers practical, invaluable resources for faculty and staff alike to delve into the complications and opportunities their knowledge of student life at Berkeley brings. [Learn more](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/twtt)

## [Staff as Students of Social Justice Program](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/sssj)

The Staff as Students of Social Justice (SSSJ) Program is an important expression of the campus’s commitment to staff’s intellectual and professional development, especially around issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice. Now continuing its sixth year, this program is 10-weeks long in the Fall and Spring semesters, offering a weekly seminar over Zoom, titled “Material Anti-Racisms,” led by the SSSJ Program Director of Pedagogy, David Maldonado. This seminar provides a deep study of abolitionism and higher education, incorporating content from the previous SSSJ lecture series “Aspirations of Material Anti-Racism: What’s Next.” [Learn more](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/sssj)