Welcome to Sunday Assembly Sacramento
Welcome to Sunday Assembly Sacramento
At Sunday Assembly Sacramento, we take time to wonder more about our lives, our community, our world, and our universe. There's much to think about and see! So, come and learn about some of it with us! Let’s take our time, look around, and learn about this wonderful existence of ours.
Aaron Tang is a law professor at the University of California, Davis and former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Tang writes frequently about the Supreme Court in popular media including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Slate, The Atlantic, USA Today, and elsewhere. He is the author of Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence is Destroying the Court—and How We Can Fix It, published in August 2023 by Yale University Press.
Come and join us on January 14 to hear Aaron speak about What’s Wrong with the Supreme Court and How to Fix It.
Since releasing ‘An Atheist Album’ and performing at the 2012 Reason Rally, Shelley Segal’s music has taken her across the world and on 11 consecutive tours of the United States. Shelley has been a performer and speaker at many large scale national and international atheist/ secular/humanist events.
Pi Day is March 14th, so let's celebrate early on March 10th!
Nick Gray will share details about the one-of-a-kind secular summer Camp Omni, and information on the 2024 camp options. Nick is also a science educator and will bring some fun DIY rocket activities for all ages!
Kenny Ballentine (they/them) has worked as a documentary filmmaker since 2008. Their feature length “Nature Kids” was featured in National Park visitor centers across the country and their 2016 short film “Estamos Aqui” premiered at The (Obama) Whitehouse. Kenny’s films have screened on every continent and in 27 countries. They also directed the recently released Healing Us (featuring Oscar winner Susan Sarandon as narrator) and is currently directing a new film on mental health called “Suicide LOL”. Kenny is also an award-winning screenwriter and poet. They currently reside in Northern California where Kenny is raising four children with their loving partner Amber.
Zima Creason serves as the Executive Director of the California EDGE Coalition and an elected member of the San Juan Unified Board of Education. At EDGE, she works to address workforce shortages, create pathways to good jobs, and advance economic mobility in communities historically left out of California's prosperity. She is committed to community empowerment and coalition building, and has worked in the policy field since 2001. Much of her work has focused on mental health and workforce development.
Zima is dedicated to supporting people to avoid crisis outcomes, social justice, and for all Americans to have access and opportunity to achieve the American Dream regardless of their zip code, culture, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, health/mental health status, gender identification, or who they love.
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Found on Facebook - the first tool made in space.
Found this gem on Facebook
Borrowed from Alice Stefanni on The Laughing Librarian
Just a little reminder from Science is Fun that you are supported.
This is Sabrina Pasterski, a girl who already knew how to build an airplane engine at the age of 14. At age 16, she became the youngest person ever to travel in a plane she built herself. She has a doctorate in physics and is currently impressing with her studies of black holes.
Sabrina Pasterski received her PhD from Harvard and studies one of the most challenging subjects in physics: black holes, the nature of gravity and space-time. The way she approaches the subject has led university institutions to claim that they are working with a "new Einstein".
Daughter of an American father and a Cuban mother, she was born in Chicago and attended a school for super-intelligent children. In 2013, she was the first woman in two decades to graduate from MIT with a degree in physics at the top of her class.
Stephen Hawking cited her work several times in his article published in 2016. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, wore a fan T-shirt with her image and invited her to work at "Blue Origin", an astronaut company that he owns. According to him, she would work wherever she wants, it's important that she has that mindset. NASA also made a similar proposal to her.
She turned down both companies, wanting to focus on her scientific work for now without any pressure.
- Original. Facebook post by Kaleem Usmani.
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