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Northwest Technical College and Bemidji State University have appointed Emelie Rivera as the inaugural director of civil rights and restorative justice.<\/p>\n
In her role, Rivera’s primary responsibilities includes co-directing NTC and BSU’s Center for Civil Rights and leading investigations involving violations of Title IX and Minnesota State policies regarding discrimination, sexual and domestic violence on both campuses.<\/p>\n
“I am excited to have the chance to help nurture a safe, welcoming and inclusive campus and community culture,” Rivera said. “I believe pursuing collaborations internally and within the community will make a big difference in developing this inaugural program for BSU and NTC and am very much looking forward to building responsive programming that assists with their growth and development goals.”<\/p>\n
She will also assist human resources conduct Respectful Workplace investigations, develop and implement educational programming and build community connections.<\/p>\n
Steven D. Parker, campus diversity officer for Northwest Tech and Bemidji State, said hiring a director of civil rights and restorative justice reflects NTC and BSU’s commitment to transformative change.<\/p>\n
“I am honored to have Emelie with us,” Parker said. “Her expertise and dedication to diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism positions our institutions to holistically center restorative justice praxis.”<\/p>\n
Rivera holds bachelor’s degrees in social work and Indigenous Studies from Bemidji State University and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Minnesota Duluth. Her professional experiences have focused on human services, investigations and judicial processes in both state and tribal government systems.<\/p>\n
“BSU and NTC have a great responsibility to protect the civil rights of students, faculty and staff,” Rivera said. “We also have a responsibility to respect those rights and educate people, so they may be empowered by their rights.”<\/p>\n
NTC Center for Civil Rights<\/a> Northwest Technical College and Bemidji State University have appointed Emelie Rivera as the inaugural director of civil rights and restorative justice. In her role, Rivera’s primary responsibilities includes co-directing NTC and BSU’s Center for Civil Rights and leading investigations involving violations of Title IX and Minnesota State policies regarding discrimination, sexual and domestic violence on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,7,3,4],"tags":[84,83,14],"class_list":["post-5117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-myntc","category-people","category-top-story","tag-center-for-civil-rights-and-restorative-justice","tag-emelie-rivera","tag-ntc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5120,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions\/5120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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