Culture Builders Keynote featuring Valarie Kaur

What would it look like to approach institutional life through curiosity, courage, relationship, and love?

The Office of Community and Culture invites the UMBC community to join civil rights lawyer, educator, and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project Valarie Kaur for a conversation about love as a practice for transforming ourselves, our relationships, and the institutions we inhabit.

Drawing from her book See No Stranger, Kaur will explore how wonder, grief, rage, and love can become sources of courage and possibility in moments of conflict and change. Together, we’ll consider how we can build cultures of belonging, connection, and collective flourishing at UMBC and beyond.

Students, faculty, and staff are welcome. Come ready to reflect, question, and imagine what becomes possible when we treat love not simply as a feeling, but as a practice of change.