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Social Work Professor Ronke Olawale Serves as Keynote Speaker at EqualiTEA event
March 18, 2026
School of Social Work Professor Ronke Olawale served as the keynote speaker for this year's EqualiTEA event which took place on March 17 as part of Women's History Month. The Gayle R. Davis Center for Women and Gender Equity hosted the gathering, which invites the campus community to connect over a cup of tea to share stories and honor the exceptional women at GVSU.
In her talk, “The Subversive Steep: Tea, Resistance, Healing and the Architecture of Care,” Ronke spoke about the history of women’s labor and resistance movements across the world. She shared that reflecting on that history “helps us honor the invisible labor and sacred architecture of care that women before us built, in solidarity to resist oppression and cultivate global healing."
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