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.

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.

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.