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Community forum on immigration is Thursday

Posted at 5:40 pm April 24, 2017
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

De Ann Pendry

De Ann Pendry

There will be a community forum on immigration in Oak Ridge on Thursday.

A press release said the forum will provide information on how immigration has been affected by current politics and the issue of living without documentation in Oak Ridge.

The main speaker will be De Ann Pendry, a senior lecturer and adjunct assistant professor in anthropology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

The forum is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 27, in the sanctuary at the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church at 809 Oak Ridge Turnpike.

The forum is free, and the public is invited, the press release said. It’s sponsored by Women’s Interfaith Dialogue of Oak Ridge, or WIDOR; Oak Ridge Interfaith Partnership, or ORIP and the League of Women Voters, or LWV. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Community, Education, Federal, Front Page News, Government, K-12, Oak Ridge Tagged With: community forum, DACA, De Ann Pendry, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, immigration, James T. Akagi, Jo Bruce, League of Women Voters, LWV, Oak Ridge Interfaith Partnership, ORIP, University of Tennessee, WIDOR, Women's Interfaith Dialogue of Oak Ridge

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