Mission
The Santa Monica College Gender Equity Center is dedicated to creating an equitable community by addressing and challenging gender inequity through education, empowerment of women, consciousness raising, activism, and allyship.
We do this by actively:
- Advancing authentic dialogue regarding systemic gender inequities
- Developing programs to promote gender equity through an intersectional lens
- Offering resources to create/promote/build feminist, womxnist, and mujerista movements
- Advocating for gender equity by organizing and participating in social and activist movements
- Welcoming and building allyship in support of gender equity
- Building and establishing partnerships with SMC groups and community agencies to support and achieve gender equality
National Organization for Women NOW
As the grassroots arm of the women’s movement, the National Organization for Women is dedicated to its multi-issue and multi-strategy approach to women’s rights, and is the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States.
Visit the National Organization for Women
Trailblazers
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is an American lawyer, civil rights advocate, philosopher, and a leading scholar of critical race theory who developed the theory of intersectionality. She is a full-time professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender issues
Social Media Activism
- This is an easy way to take action. Be intentional about posting authenticated news articles, petitions, websites, and more that help bring exposure to police brutality and anti-black violence. Here are a few tips.
- Don't be silent on social media. Speak up. Use your platform to seek justice for George Floyd. If you are uncomfortable writing something yourself then repost someone else's words.
- When you donate, share the link on your social channels to inspire followers.
- Resharing photos or videos of protestors could get them in trouble with the law. Think carefully before reposting any video where law enforcement could I.D. someone.
Campus Clubs
Corsair Consent Coalition (CCC) Club
Corsair Consent Coalition (CCC) is to create a safe, inclusive campus for students of all gender expressions and sexual orientations by educating our campus community on issues surrounding sexual assault and violence. Corsair Consent Coalition is committed to combating sexual violence, educating students, and creating a supportive environment for survivors and allies. CCC will partner with on- and off-campus community resources in an effort to educate on the topics of sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, stalking, and healthy sexuality
Every other Friday | 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Free | Email for Zoom Link
Period @ Santa Monica College Club
PERIOD is a youth-fueled nonprofit that strives to eradicate period poverty and stigma through service, education, and advocacy. Through the distribution of menstrual products, promotion of youth leadership, and championing of menstrual equity in policy, PERIOD aims to center those disproportionately affected by period poverty and support local efforts for menstrual equity. To end period poverty and stigma through education, advocacy, and service
Currently Inactive.
If interested, contact Dr. Shannon Herbert (she/her),
Faculty-Lead, Gender Equity Center
genderequitycenter@smc.edu
Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) Club
GSA strives to create an inclusive environment where students of ALL sexual orientations, gender identities, ethnicities, religions, ages, and other intersectional backgrounds can come together as a community to create awareness and fight inequality at SMC.
Thursdays | 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Free | Email for Zoom Link
Resources
The Gender Equity Center will foster student success and retention by creating a designated space for the safe expression of gender identity, the creation and dissemination of knowledge, inquiry, and education with regards to gender and sexuality, sexual assault and harassment services and education, and as a platform for research and professional development for students with regards to gender expression and inclusion.
Connect with Us!
Summer Hours
Monday: 9 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday: 9 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 9 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Thursday: 9 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Visit Us: Cayton Center, Basement Level (below the cafeteria and the bodega). You can reach us through two main entrances. There is elevator access by the bodega.
Phone: (310) 434-4666
Questions: genderequitycenter@smc.edu
Staff Contact Information
Dr. Shannon Herbert (she/her),
Faculty-Lead, Gender Equity Center
genderequitycenter@smc.edu
Valeria Garcia (she/ella), M.S.
Project Manager, Student Equity Center
garcia_valeria_p@smc.edu
Emily S. Chavez (she/ella), M.S.
Student Services Specialist, Student Equity Center
chavez_emily@smc.edu
Land Acknowledgement
The Student Equity Center's Gender Equity Center acknowledges our presence on ancestral
unceded territory of the Tongva or Gabrielino, Kizh, and Chumash peoples. We honor
the indigenous caretakers of these lands and their elders, past, present, and future.