Please join us next Friday for an important panel discussion on race next Friday 2/28 at 3:30 pm: What is "Woke" and are you it?" A panel discussion on racial bias through historic, institutionalized, and lived perspectives.
Friday, February 28, 2020; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm, Magnet Classroom, Snyder Center, Marlboro College
Hosted by Marlboro College Alumni Office (Marlboro College Alumni Speaker Series) and Living in Color student affinity group, with support from Diversity and Inclusion Task Force and Events and Lectures Committee.
Free and open to the public.
Panelists include:
Shanta Lee Gander
Artist and multi-faceted professional.
As an artist, her endeavors include writing prose, poetry, investigative journalism, and photography. Her poetry, prose, and personal essays have been featured in Rebelle Society, on the Ms. Magazine Blog, The Commons weekly newspaper, and and she is a former selectperson for the Town of Brattleboro. She is currently the Director of Outreach and Publicity at Mount Island—a small press and magazine dedicated to rural LGBTQ+ and POC voices/artists—and gives lectures on the life of Lucy Terry Prince as a member of the Vermont Humanities Council Speakers Bureau. Shanta Lee is an MFA candidate in Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
www.Shantaleegander.com
Jenna Chandler-Ward '92
Co-Founder, Teaching While White
Also a founder and co-director of the Multicultural Teaching Institute, which produces workshops and a conference for educators on issues of equity and inclusion.
https://teachingwhilewhite.org/team
Julie Pham, PhD
VP of Community Engagement, Washington Technology Industry Assoc.
Author, contributor to Forbes Magazine focusing on stories about businesses owned by people of color, former editor of Northwest Vietnamese News (founded by her parents), recipient of 2010 New America Media Atlantic Philanthropies Ethnic Elders Journalism Fellowship and the 2015 German Marshall Memorial Fellowship, founder of Sea Beez - a capacity-building program for Seattle's ethnic media, and earned her PhD in History at Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar.
https://southseattleemerald.com/2020/02/02/opinion-want-to-practice-awakening-in-a-woke-unwo[...]ld/
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