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Diversity Speakers Series 2010-2011

The ACLU-WA cosponsors the Bush School Diversity Speakers Series. National experts discuss issues related to diversity and civil rights at various locations in Seattle.

 

 

Islam: Beyond the Myths, Breaking Down the Barriers

Date: Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 7:00pm
Location: The Bush School Community Room, 3400 East Harrison Street, Seattle
The ACLU-WA cosponsors the Bush School Diversity Speakers Series, featuring Amer Ahmed on Islam in a post-9/11 context. This multi-media presentation  addresses a range of critical questions that are especially important in the current climate of prejudice and bigotry toward Muslim people in the United States. Ahmed is an acclaimed spoken word poet and Hip Hop activist, intercultural diversity consultant and associate director for the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. Free and open to the public.
 
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The New Jim Crow: Prison Industrial Complex

Date: Monday, January 24, 2011 - 7:00pm
Location: Mount Zion Baptist Church, 1634 19th Avenue at Madison, Seattle
The ACLU-WA cosponsors the Bush School Diversity Speakers Series, featuring Michelle Alexander. Alexander argues that we have not ended racial caste in  America; we have merely redesigned it. Join us for a spirited discussion of whether a new Jim Crow system is thriving in the age of Obama. Alexander is associate professor at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Previously she was director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of Northern California and director of Stanford's Civil Rights Clinic. Her new book is "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." Free and open to the public.
 

Reel Diversity: Framing the Diversity Conversation Through Modern Film

Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 7:00pm
Location: The Bush School Community Room, 3400 East Harrison Street, Seattle
The ACLU-WA cosponsors the Bush School Diversity Speakers Series, featuring Brian C. Johnson. Johnson a faculty member in the department of developmental instruction at Bloomsburg University and is the director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for Academic Excellence. Free and open to the public.
 

Hip-Hop Conference

Date: Saturday, February 12, 2011 (All day)
Location: TBD, Seattle
The ACLU-WA cosponsors the Hip-Hop Conference, a program of the 2010-2011 Bush School Diversity Speakers Series. Save the date. 
 

Bending the Arc of the Universe: How Young People Change the World

Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 7:00pm
Location: The Bush School Community Room, 3400 East Harrison Street, Seattle
The ACLU-WA cosponsors the Bush School Diversity Speakers Series, featuring Dr. Barbara J. Love. Love has worked as an editor, writer, and journalist, and is currently a member of the board of the Veteran Feminists of America. She is the author of Foremost Women in Communications and coauthor of Sappho Was a Right On Woman. Free and open to the public.
 

When Caring People Hurt: Racial Micro-Aggression and How Allies Can Help

Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 7:00pm
Location: The Bush School Community Room, 3400 East Harrison Street, Seattle
The ACLU-WA cosponsors the Bush School Diversity Speakers Series, featuring Hsiao-Wen Lo. Dr. Lo is a licensed psychologist in Michigan and has a private practice in Ann Arbor. She has worked with clients from diverse backgrounds regarding, age, gender, nationality, race, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. Free and open to the public.