The 2023-24 Equity & Inclusion Virtual Speaker Series is presented by POCIS Seattle. It offers communities and beyond the opportunity to connect, learn, and engage in topics around equity, inclusion, and antiracist education and action. The program invites 4-5 speakers throughout the academic year to create access to recognized authors and speakers that engage participants in complex topics through dialogue, cross-cultural communication, and a deeper understanding of the impact that racism and oppression have in our institutions and the greater society. These events aims to serve a public purpose by making this programming free and accessible to all.
2023-24 School Year E&I Speakers
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez
October 5, 2023, 6:00–7:15 pm
Storytelling as Resistance: Experience at Predominantly White Institutions and Generational Trauma
RSVP
Dr. Bernice A. King
February 8, 2024, 5:00–6:15 pm
A Conversation with Dr. Bernice A. King
RSVP
Dr. Megan Asaka
March 13, 2024, 6:00–7:15 pm
Beyond the Model Minority: Asian American Histories of Resistance and Renewal in the Pacific Northwest and Beyond
RSVP
Ruha Benjamin
May 23, 2024, 6:00–7:15 pm
Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Setting of Technology and Society
RSVP
2022-23 Past Speakers:
Kimberlee Williams, Author of Dear White Woman, Please Come Home, is a humanist first and believes that racism can be dismantled through authentic relationship building where a mirror is held up to interrogate one’s assumptions, beliefs, behaviors, and patterns of interactions. With a shift in any and all of the above as authentic relationships dive beneath the surface, the power and harm caused by the legacy of racism can be dismantled.
Tiffany Jewell
The Anti-Racist Kid: Identity, Justice, and Activism
Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr.
NWord: Is There a Message in the Madness
Dr. Yuria Celidwen
Healing & Wholeness as Love, Power, and Resistance
2021-22 Past Speakers
Gyasi Ross
Indigenous People, Race, and Education
Dr. Erika Lee
Asian Americans in America’s History: A Look to Xenophobia and Racism
Dr. Beverly Tatum
A Conversation with Dr. Beverly Tatum about Race and Racism
Jason Reynolds
Racism and Young People’s Literature
Dr. Bettina L. Love
We Gon’ Be Alright, But That Ain’t Alright: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
About Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging at University Cooperative School
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