Anita Lal (Poetic Justice Foundation), Dr Neha Gupta (UBC Okanagan) and Dr Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra (Belonging Matters) have been awarded a Community University Engagement Support (CUES) grant from the University of British Columbia. They will collaborate on bringing a series of community events on anti-racist and anti-casteist narratives with, and alongside multi-faith, multi-lingual South Asian communities residing in the Okanagan, BC. Specifically, the community-university partnership will combine efforts to raise awareness about the intersectional experience of race and caste in workplaces, educational and social spaces, and promote reciprocal learning through community speaker events, a travelling exhibit and teach-in activities alongside diverse communities including domestic and international students and young professionals in the Okanagan.

Dr Neha Gupta represented the DARE lab at the recent Indigenous Archaeology Forum held in Westbank First Nation. She was invited to the forum by the Westbank Archaeology Office.

Dr Neha Gupta, one of four directors on the FAIR+CARE cultural heritage network, participated in the first in-person workshop held in California, US. She leads a working group that focuses on the implementation of FAIR+CARE practices in the heritage sector, and in the development of an assessment tool and resources that Tribes, institutions and researchers can use in their everyday practice.

Congratulations to Dr Neha Gupta on her talk in the Transforming Data Reuse in Archaeology (TETRARCHs) seminar series in May 2024.

Congratulations to Dr Neha Gupta for organizing and participating in three conference sessions to engage and promote Black and racialized archaeologists in Canada.