• All proposals submitted for co-sponsorship must include an event that will be free and open to the University community and take place in fiscal year 2027. Applications for events happening before July 1, 2026, will not be considered.
• Proposals must include a complete budget documenting other event collaborators and funding sources.
• Promotional materials (e.g., press releases, flyers, announcement and event programs, etc.) listing CEW+ as a co-sponsor must be reviewed by CEW+ prior to circulation and distribution.
• All publicity for events must have the co-sponsorship of the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund listed and include the CEW+ logo.
• An electronic copy of all promotional materials and the final program created for the event must be submitted to CEW+ along with a final budget within 30 days after the event.

Past examples of co-sponsorships include:

• Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s: Curator lecture with Alexandra Schwartz (UMMA)
• Teach-In + 50: End the War Against the Planet (College of Literature, Science and the Arts, LS&A)
• Women’s Rights in the 21st Century (International Institute)
• She’s the First Student Organization (Student Affairs)
• William Trotter Lecture Support (Student Affairs)

A review committee comprised of CEW+ staff makes the award selections. Preference will be given to those proposals that are most in alignment with CEW+’s mission and the purpose of the Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

*Only those proposals submitted via the CEW+ online form will be considered.

Co-sponsorship requests must be submitted at least FOUR (4) WEEKS in advance.  Requests for retroactive funding will not be considered.

If you have any further questions, please email [email protected].

2025

Sasha Velour at The Michigan Theater, Marquee Arts Presents 

• Sasha Velour

Food Literacy for All 

• Tambra Raye Stevenson; Rowen White; Katherine Miller; Jamina Shupack; Reneé V. Wallace; Hannah Wittman; Kiddada Green; Jaye Clement; Angie Sanchez; Rosemary Linares

The Arc of Activism: Bridging Intergenerational Legacies 

• Angela Davis and Ta-Nehisi Coates

Media Industries and Their Fans: Mixed Method Approaches to Studying Media Culture 

• Professor Derek Johnson, Associate Professor Suzanne Scott, Associate Professor Abigail De Kosnik, Associate Professor Erin Hanna, and Associate Professor Benjamin Woo

Women in Leadership Conference 

• Candice Mushatt

Symposium on Engineering Access 

• Dr. Claire Davies

Silences Broken: A Symposium in Honor of Michele Mitchell 

• Michele Mitchell

“Sí Se Pudo, Sí Se Puede y Sí Se Podrá!”: An Intergenerational Pláctica with Dolores Huerta 

• Dolores Huerta

Christobel Kotelawela Weerasinghe Lecture 

• Deepa Iyer

Global Health Summer Institute 2025 

• Professor Bukola Salami, RN, BScN, MN, PhD, FCAN, FAAN, University of Calgary, and Dr. Olivia Lemberger, PhD, RN

Conference on Ending Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Violence: Innovations in Research and Practice 

• Charlene Senn, Jennifer Hirsch, Maya Ragavan, and Nadiah Mohajir

Big Data Summer Institute Concluding Symposium 

• Kelsey Grinde, PhD

Malala Yousafzai in Conversation 

• Malala Yousafzai

2024

Food Literacy for All (speakers for the course) 

• Helen Zoe Veit, Ashanté M. Reese, Reem Kasis, Marcia Chatelain, and Sarah Levy

Express Yourself: A Vibrant Celebration of Intersecting Identities 

• J Wortham

Latinx Research Week 2024 

• Carina Wilson, Marco Kamimura, Mark Kamimura-Jimenez, Aurora Kamimura, and Keone, son of Carina and Marco

Ni una más 

• María Arce and Alexandria Davis

Disability Visibility Symposium Part II 

• Dr. Sasha Costanza-Chock

Technology for Radical Change 

• Dr. Chanel Beebe

Global Health Summer Institute 2024: Uniting for Global Health Equity 

• Maya Bizri, Edilma Yearwood, Evelyn Tomaszewski, Ruth Owusu· Antwi, Oye Gureje, Paulo Rosso Menezes, Renwick Gaskin, Alicia Carrasco Parra, and Loreto Pantoja

Jewish/Queer/Trans Exhibit & Artist Visit 

• Anne Vetter

Vivian R. Shaw Lecture by Melissa Harris-Perry 

• Melissa Harris-Perry

Kiljoy’s Kastle Unplugged 

• Deirdre Logue and Allison Mitchell

Who’s Afraid of Gender? A Discussion with Judith Butler 

• Judith Butler

‘Restoration’ Documentary Screening and Take Back the Night Rally Ann Arbor 

• Sabrina Banks and Gudrun Gruber

2023

Fast Food for Thought

(5-minute videos available to view here)

• Joseph Stanhope Cialdella, Rackham graduate school, Deep Roots: Potatoes and the History of Growing Food in Detroit
• Sabina Tomkins, School of Information, What can we tell about sustainability in food product descriptions and reviews?
• Liz Debetta, CEW+, If You Don’t Eat You Can’t Think: Addressing Food Insecurity through Care
• Jennifer Blesh, School for Environment and Sustainability, Rethinking Soil Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture
• shakara tyler, School for Environment and Sustainability, The Story of the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund: Decolonization and Abolition in Practice
• Andy Jones, School of Public Health, Nutritional Sciences Nudging Michigan Diners Toward Lower Carbon Food Choices
• John Vandermeer, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Coffee, Capitalism, Colonialism, and Coca Cola
• Kendrin Sonneville, School of Public Health, Nutritional Sciences, The new AAP Childhood “Obesity” Guidelines: What are they Recommending and at What Cost?

La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered 

• Ellie Walton and Sami Miranda

Thirty Years of Seeding Foundations of Agroecology: A Symposium Honoring Ivette Perfecto

• Ivette Perfecto

Global Health Summer Institute 2023: Climate Change & Health Equity: Reducing Risk & Promoting Resilience 

• Angela Nguku, Ryoko Ikari, Angelina Davydova, Chris Oura, and Shanda Demorest

Conference on Ending Sexual Harassment and Gender·  Based Violence

• Dr. Rebecca Campbell and Dr. Xhercis (Sir-Sis) Méndez

“A Whole Note” documentary screening with Sara Elias, Portuguese music entrepreneur 

• Sara Elias, Ph.D. and Ana Elias

Screening of “Crossings” film followed by Q&A 

• Christine Ahn and Deann Borshay Liem

Black Queer Kinship Histories 

• M Aziz, Cas Adair, LaVelle Riddley and Marquis Bey

Firekeeper’s Daughter: Readings & Discussions with Angeline Boulley 

• Angeline Boulley

Book Panel on “Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnant, and Childbirth” 

• TaNefer Camara, Linda Jones, Dr. Sayida Preprah-Wilson, and Alexus Roane (Moderator)

2022

Beginning Farmers and Feeding Community

• Angela Chalk, Executive Director of Healthy Community Services, American Public Health Climate Health & Equity Advisory Board

Fast Food for Thought

• Kate Astashkina, Michigan Ross
• Lesli Hoey, Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning 
• Nancy Love, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Sarah Mills, Ford School of Public Policy
• Kendrin Sonneville, School of Public Health 

Small Grocer Panel: Supplying Kimchi and Collards during a Global Pandemic

• Alita Kelly, Grocery store owner

Why Fatphobia? Understanding the Roots and Uses of Anti-fat Bias

• Savala Nolan, Executive Director, Author

Cultivating a Food System Grounded in Equity: The Role of Healthcare and Healthcare Providers

• Deanna Belleny Lewis, MPH, RDN, Co-founder of Diversify Dietetics

Conversation with Hi’ilei Hobart on What Shave Ice Teaches us About Refreshment, Race, Colonialism, and Body Politics 

• Dr. Hi’ilei Hobart, PhD, Author, Professor

How the Other Half Eats: the Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America

• Dr. Priya Fielding-Singh, PhD, Assistant Professor

The Role of Weight Bias on Health Outcomes

• Dr. Fatima Cody Standford, MD, MPH, MPA, Physician Scientist, Educator, Policymaker

Freedom, Food, & Fat: Reclaiming our bodies and our world from oppressive weight hierarchies, as part of anti-racism, environmental justice, and more… 

• Marilyn Wann, Fat activist, Author, Weight Diversity Speaker, Author
• Chef Fresh Roberson

Food Media, Dudes, and Athletes: What Can They Teach Us about Food Literacy and Liberation? 

• Emily Contois

Remaking Dinner for Sovereignty and Joy 

• Winona Bynum
• Lilly Fink Shapiro
• Margot Finn

Panel Discussion and Book Launch

• Marilyn Chin

2022 WCTF Career Conference – Keynote

• Tamika D. Mallory, Social Justice Leader and Movement Strategist

UMSN Global Health Summer Institute – Chronic Conditions in Women’s Health: Through A Global Lens

• Dra. Jovita Ortz
• Dra. Marcela Araya

Chi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority, Inc. Founder’s Bal

• Asia Johnson

ENGAGE Undergraduate Investment Conference

• Women U-M Business Alums

Take Back the Night Ann Arbor Rally and March

• Drew Dixon

Diversity and Belonging: Unsung Keyboard Stories

• Dr. Karen Walwyn

Let Women Choose Her Sphere

• Valerie Coleman
• Margaret Brouwer
• Felicia Sandler

2021

Food Literacy for All with Patricia Escarcega & Leah Douglas

• Patricia Escárcega, Reporter
• Leah Douglas, Journalist

Food Literacy for All with Shirley Sherrod & Samina Raja

• Shirley Sherrod, USDA Rural Development Director
• Dr. Samina Raja, PhD, Professor, Principal Investigator for the Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab
• Devita Davison

Food Literacy for All with Navina Khanna & Monica Ramirez

• Monica Ramirez
• Navina Khanna

Stamps @ Home: A Conversation with Artists from the Exhibition Story, Word, Sound, Sway

• Yvette Rock, MFA
• Elizabeth Youngblood, BFA

Partners for Liberation: Researching and Organizing for Educational and Racial Justice

• Dr. Adrienne Dixon

SHRed Concussions:  Surveillance in High Schools and Community Sport to Reduce Concussions and the Consequences

• Carolyn Emery, PT, PhD

Take Back the Night – Ann Arbor 

• Jaclyn Friedman, Writer, Educator, Activist

GirlsUp MRAP Elevate Refugee Women Event

• Kendall Minor

Women in Leadership Conference

• Trudy Kortes
• Erika Low
• Sarah Fuhrman
• Elizabeth Mann
• Christianne Myers
• Judy A. Kelly
• Ruth Sedlak

Elevate Spoken Work Events

Stamps @ Home: A Conversation with Artists from the Exhibition

• Valencia Robin
• Yvette Rock

Food Literacy for All Courses

2020

CEW+ Advocacy Symposium Kick-off Event: Creating Change through Introspection, Dialogue, and Action – Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund

• Martha S. Jones, JD, PhD, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History, Author, and Historian – 2020
• Angela D. Dilliard, PhD, Richard A. Meisler Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Author, Faculty Advisor, Co-PI on the Egalitarian Metropolis project

BLI Speaker Series Compassionate Leadership: Creating a Just, Inclusive, and Mindful Society

• Mirabai Bush, Senior Fellow

Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assult on Campus

• Jennifer Hirsch, Professor and Deputy Chair for Doctoral Studies
• Shamus Khan, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology

Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus

•  Jennifer Hirsch

Political Social Work: Using Power to Create Social Change and Social Welfare Policy in a Changing World

• Shannon Lane, PhD

Reflecting on the Past…Reaching toward the Future (Conference on music of the African Diaspora)

• Kyra Gaunt
• Aja Burrell Wood
• Alisha Lola Jones
• Gayle Murchison

Feminist Futures: Art, Design and Activism Event Series

• Noura Ballout
• Nandi Comer
• Irina Aristarkhova
• Lucy Lippard
• Srimoyee Mitra
• Faith Wilding
• Holly Hughes
• Carol Jacobsen
• Joanne Leonard
• LeAnn Feilds

Food Literacy for All Courses

We Are Fragmented

• Amira Hanafi

Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era

• Elena Gutierrez, UIC
• Maylei Blackwell, UCLA
• Virginia Martinez, Chicago attorney, Activist

Decolonizing Academia with Dr. Clelia Rodríguez

• Clelia O. Rodriguez, PhD

Mari Katayama – Exhibition and Programming

• Mari Katayama

Women of Color Mixer

• Regina Strong

Connectivity and Mobility in the Ancient Western Mediterranean

• Tamar Hodos, PhD

Compassionate Leadership: Creating a Just, Inclusive, and Mindful Society

• Mirabai Bush

Ann Arbor Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-ton

• Diana Nucera

Shannon Cohen – Advocacy Symp and WCTF/WOCAP Leadership Training

2019

Global Summer Institute

• Nthabiseng A. Phaladze, PhD

Art, Ideas, & Politics: Ninth Street Women with author Mary Gabriel

• Mary Gabriel

U-M Data Visualization Workshop

• Stephanie Evergreen

Sexual Harasssment: The Law, the Politics and the Movement

• Catherine A. MacKinnon

Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America

• Tiffany Rhynard

Food Literacy for All Lecture Series

• Mónica Ramírez

Anishinaabe Theatre Exchange Residency I Three Sisters

•  Carolyn Dunn

Narrating Black Girls’ Lives

• Saidiya Hartman

Jessica Care Moore: Poetry in Hip Hop Talk and Performance 

• Jessica Care Moore
• Ursula Rucker

Women of the Guild: Poetry Talk and Performance 

• Bayan Founas
• Mariah S

Culturally Aware Mentor Training Session

National Coming Out Week

Dia de Los Muertos Ball

2018

Ann Navarro Lecture 

• Ann Navarro

Summer Institute in Global Reproductive Health

Beyond Borders Exhibition

Lilly Tomlin and Jane Fonda

• Lilly Tomlin
• Jane Fonda

Exercising the Eye and Ceal Floyer 

• Ceal Floyer

Janet Mock- Keynote 

• Janet Mock

2017

The Spectrum of Advocacy and Activism: Finding Your Voice – Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund & Mullin Welch Fund

• Laverne Cox, Emmy-nominated actress, Emmy-winning producer

“Healing Through The Sound of Music” The  Fannie Lou Hamer Story One Woman Play

Arts Engine

Lean in Leadership Summit

International Women’s Day Jin in 

MAASU Spring 2017 Conference 

Traces Event

Marcia Porter Guest Recital

Flint Water Crisis Teach-in

2016

Masterclass with Andrea Parkins and Resonance Concert

“I’mma Do Me” 15-Character One-Woman Play

#BlackActivism: Social Media and Digital Organizing Symposium

The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo

U-M Conference on Nutrition & Iron

Trans Health Activism

2015

U-M Alumna Aimee Cox Returns to Discuss Her New Book “Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship”

• Aimee Meredith Cox, PhD
• Kelly Askew, PhD

National Public Radio Journalist Michel Martin

• Michel Martin, Journalist and NPR correspondent

2014

Alice Walker, Novelist and Human Rights Activist: U-M Zora Neale Hurston Lecture November 5, 2014 

• Alice Walker, Author, Pulitzer prize and National Book Award-winning – 2014

2012

“The Witches of Gambaga”

• Yada Badoe, Director, Producer

UMMA Dialogues: Artist Haroon Mirza and Curator Elizabetth Thomas

• Harooon Mirza
• Elizabeth Thomas

2011

In Conversation with Chen Limin, Artist Talk and Exhibit Tour

• Chen Limin, Printmaker

2010

Urban Planning and Design for the American City 

• Toni L. Griffin, Harvard Graduate

The Washington Catwalk

• Robin Givhan, Fashion Editor

Growing Hope Through Sustainable Community Gardens

• Amanda Edmonds, Executive Director

Women in Corporate America

• Linda Basch, National Council for Research on Women
• Melissa Fisher, Georgetown University

2009

A Conversation with Soledad O’Brien, CNN Special Correspondent

• Soledad O’Brien, CNN Special Correspondent

U-M Museum of Art UMMA Projects: Lisa Anne Auerbach Lecture and Exhibit

• Lisa Ann Auerbach

2008

Jane Evelyn Atwood – Too Much Time: Women in Prison (Exhibit)

• Jane Evelyn Atwood, Author

Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture

• Nina Totenberg, Legal affairs correspondent, National Public Radio

2007

Low Wage Work and Work Organizations: A critical Research and Policy Frontier

• Anne Ladky, Executive Director
• Carrie Leana, Professor
• Amy Wrzesniewski, Associate Professor 

2006

Annu Mathew Exhibit: “Bollywood Satirized”

• Annu Matthew, Assistant Professor

Artist’s Talk: Annu Matthew “Exploring My Diaspora”

• Annu Matthew, Assistant Professor

Women and (In)equality in Economics: A Visit with Connie Evans and Anne Ladaky

• Connie Evans
• Anne Ladky

For Good or Ill? Affirmative Action for Women

• Kathy Rodgers, J.D. President, Legal Momentum

“Against Health” Conference

• Joycelyn Elders, PhD
• Susan Love, PhD

2005

Gender Differences in Leadership Style 

• Virginia Ota, PhD, Director

The Search for Status in Contemporary Black Atlantic Popular Culture: Internationalism, Materialism, and Body-Consciousness

• Ifeoma Nwankwo, Assistant Professor – 2005 

Your Children, Their Peers, and Peer Pressure 

• Carole Lapidos, MSW, Consultant and Co-Founder  – 2005

Arab Women and Activism in the 21st Century 

• Nadine Naber, Moderator, Assistant Professor – 2005
• Anan Amiri, Director – 2005
• Amal Hassan Fadlallah, Assistant Professor – 2005
• Huda Karaman, Palestinian activist – 2005
• Saja Raoof, AMWAJ – 2005
• May Seikaly, Chair of Near Eastern Studies – 2005

The New Low Dose Hormone Therapies for Women’s Health: Panacea or Health Risk?  

• Nancy Reame, Rhetaugh Graces Dumas Professor of Nursing

Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II: And if I Perish

• Rosemary Neidel-Greenless, MSN, RN

Valuing All Families: Marriage and More

• Stephanie Coontz, Professor of History and Family Studies
• Nancy Polikoff, Professor of Law
• Beth Hawkins, Journalist
• Pamela Smock, Associate Director

Never Kissed A Frog. Never Had To. A Woman’s Guide to Financial Security

• Barbara Tucker

Dual Career Couples: Balancing the Tasks of Home and Work

• Gil Ureno, MA LLP

Voice Habits That Can Sabotage a Woman’s Success 

• Marlena Reigh, Voice Image Specialist; Owner of Radiant Communications

The Power of One: Know Yourself, Change Your World 

• Maria Fernanda Calleja, MA, Consultant

Annual Shaw Lecture: Jacqui Alexander

• M. Jacqui Alexander, Professor

Artist’s Talk: Betye Saar, “Extending the Frozen Moment”

• Betye Saar, Artist

2003

The Faculty You Should Have Had When You Were in School

• Beverly Geltner, PhD, Chair, Leadership Council, Center for the Education of Women – 2003
• Cleopatra Caldwell, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education,  Co-Associate Director, Program for Research on Black Americans, Institute for Social Research – 2003
• Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, PhD, Assistant Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geological Science – 2003
• Elizabeth A. Davis, PhD, Assistant Professor Science Education, School of Education,  2001 President Early  Career Award Recipient for Science and Engineering – 2003
• Susan Juster, PhD, Associate Professor of History – 2003
• Toni Hoover, PhD, Full Development Team Leader Vice President, Neurosciences and Oncology Therapy Area, Pfizer Global Research and Development – 2003

2002

Kara Walker, Exhibit and Lecture

2001

Bridging Gender Divides: Educational Access, Leadership and Technology Conference

• Nancy Cantor, Provost
• Dolores Cross, President
• Jane Fountain, Associate professor
• Heidi Hartmann, President
• Sylvia Hurtado, Director
• Jacqueline E. Kind, Director
• Nichole Pinkard, Assistant Professor
• Rossi Ray-Taylor, Superintendent
• Kathy Rodgers, President
• Bernice Sandler, Senior Scholar in Residence

Lorna Simpson Art Exhibit and Lecture

• Lorna Simpson, American Artist

“Shut Up and Love Me” Karen Finley, Performance and Lecture

• Karen Finley, Artist