Michael Eric Dyson * Live at Town Hall * Tue, May 10th - 7pm

Produced by 91.3 KBCS 

VIP reception at 6 pm

Town Hall is located at 8th Ave and Seneca St, in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood.

$10 General Admission

$75 VIP Reception

Tickets and info: www.kbcs.fm

About Michael Eric Dyson:

Michael Eric Dyson is a two-time NAACP Image Award winner and is included in Ebony’s “Power 100” list of influential Black Americans. Dr. Dyson’s syndicated radio program, The Michael Eric Dyson Show, can be heard weekdays at 3 p.m. on 91.3 KBCS. The one-hour news/talk program delivers thoughtful analysis of today’s biggest stories, intimate conversations with newsmakers, and biting commentary on the hottest issues — all in Dr. Dyson’s dynamic, inimitable style. A professor of sociology at Georgetown University and the author of over a dozen books, including Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip Hop (New York: Perseus Books Group, 2007), April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Death and How it Changed America (Basic Civitas, 2009) and Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson (Basic Civitis, 2009), Dr. Dyson offers insight on issues of profound relevance to Seattle citizens, including law enforcement accountability, educational excellence, and cultural diversity.

The event starts at 7pm. There’s also a reception-fundraiser at 6pm, where you can meet Dr Dyson and mix with leaders from community. KBCS is the producer. The Michael Eric Dyson Show airs at 3pm weekdays on 91.3 KBCS and streams online at www.kbcs.fm.Tickets and additional information:www.kbcs.fm.

Town Hall is located at 8th Ave and Seneca St, in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood.

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

Location:The Bush School Community Room

Description of the presentation: Most allies strive to be helpful; however, sometimes we say or do things that actually make things worse. It is important for allies to understand and recognize the impact of racism on an individual and to develop effective skills to lessen the impact of racism. This program aims at discussing how racial microaggression affects people of color on a daily basis and when allies are not helpful. Suggestions of how to be helpful will be provided.  

Hsiao-Wen Lo is a diversity consultant who works with individuals and organizations interested in creating a genuinely inclusive living, learning, and working environment. She helps them reach this goal by providing a wide-range of services, including consultation, workshops, and public speaking. Drawing from her background as a psychologist, Dr. Lo helps her clients make sustainable changes by providing them with information and skills so they can effectively move from intention to action. Dr. Lo is 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 socio-economic status. She has also worked in a variety of settings, including domestic violence shelter, children’s hospital, community mental health clinic, and university counseling centers.

http://www.drloinannarbor.com

Week of April 27, 2011 *Asian Pacific Islander Month

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

Brian C. Johnson honors the struggles and accomplishments of the ordinary citizens who launched the Civil Rights Movement by committing himself personally and professionally to the advancement of multicultural and inclusive education. He serves as a faculty member in the department of developmental instruction at Bloomsburg University and is the director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for Academic Excellence. He is a founder of the Pennsylvania Association of Liaisons and Officers of Multicultural Affairs, a consortium that promotes best practices in higher education. He earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from California University of Pennsylvania, and has completed the necessary coursework toward a doctorate in education from Nova Southeastern University. His research is in the area of white student racial identity development. Brian is the co-author of “Reel Diversity: A Teacher’s Sourcebook” (2008) and in December 2009 Sense Publishers released “We’ve Scene It All Before: Using Film Clips in Diversity Awareness Training.” Johnson serves on the ministry team at Revival Tabernacle in Watsontown, PA where he is a church elder, youth minister, and a team leader for the Tabernacle Players, the church’s performing arts troupe. He is a film reviewer for Christian Spotlight on Entertainment (www.christiananswers.net) .In August 2009, his book “Sintimacy: The Christian’s Love Affair with Secret Sin” was published by Revival Nation Publishing.

February 01, 2011 *Black History Month Celebration

Topic: Reel Diversity: Framing the Diversity Conversation Through Modern Film

Young People Change the World

Location: The Bush School Community Room

 DR. BARBARA J. LOVE

Please join us for the next Diversity Speaker Series presenting Dr. Barbara J. Love. Dr. Love is an exciting speaker, presenter, consultant, and writer on multicultural organizational development and critical liberation theory!  Dr. Love is a Professor of Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her education background includes teacher education and staff development, curriculum development, and multicultural organizational development, also with degrees in history and political science. She consults internationally on organizational and individual empowerment and transformation. She has worked closely with schools and school systems throughout the U.S. and has served as chair of the local school committee, as well as with faculties and administration at colleges and universities throughout the U.S. She has worked with a variety of organizations in North America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa on issues of diversity and inclusion. Dr. Love works from a unique set of assumptions about the nature of humans and the process of personal, organizational, and social change which participants have found empowering, enabling, and effectively motivating. 

about the Diversity Speaker Series

The Bush School Diversity Speaker Series is free and open to the public. Unless noted, events will be held at:
The Bush School | 3400 E. Harrison St., Seattle | www.bush.edu/diversity

contact: Dr. Eddie Moore Jr., Director of Diversity | 206-326-7731 | eddie.moorejr@bush.edu

DATE | TIME: Thursday, March 3, 2011 | 7 p.m. 

Sponsors:  ACLU | Bethany Presbyterian Church | Clowes Center for the Study of Conflict and Dialogue | Comparative History of Ideas-UW | Cross Cultural Connections | Empower Law PLLC | Giddens School | Meridian School | Mount Zion Baptist Church | Seattle Pacific University | Seattle Public Schools | North Seattle Community College | Seattle University | Starbucks | Seattle Hip-Hop Summit Action Network and Youth Council | The League for Education Voters | UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center | WEACT | YMCA of Greater Seattle

*Collaborative Martin Luther King Event

Professor Michelle Alexander joined the OSU faculty in 2005. She holds a joint appointment with the Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Prior to joining the OSU faculty, she was a member of the Stanford Law School faculty, where she served as Director of the Civil Rights Clinic. Professor Alexander has significant experience in the field of civil rights advocacy and litigation. She has litigated civil rights cases in private practice as well as engaged in innovative litigation and advocacy efforts in the non-profit sector. For several years, Professor Alexander served as the Director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of Northern California, which spearheaded a national campaign against racial profiling by law enforcement. While an associate at Saperstein, Goldstein, Demchak & Baller, she specialized in plaintiff-side class action suits alleging race and gender discrimination. Professor Alexander is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Vanderbilt University. Following law school, she clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the United States Supreme Court, and for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/faculty/bios.php?ID=2

Week of January 24, 2011  

Topic: The New Jim Crow (Prison Industrial Complex)

Location: Mount Zion Baptist Church

Amer Ahmed is an individual with an eclectic personal and professional experience. As a spoken word poet, Hip Hop activist, intercultural diversity consultant and college administrator, he channels his diverse experiences into work geared towards effective change serving to create mutual benefit for all. Born in Springfield, Ohio to Indian Muslim immigrants, Amer has dedicated his life to engaging and facilitating diversity across human difference. His studies in Anthropology and Black Studies have been enhanced by powerful study abroad experiences in South Africa and Nepal. Amer’s education, world experiences and his Indian-Muslim-American upbringing helps him understand the need for respect and dignity of all people. Amer now serves as Co-Chair of their Board of Directors, which has become the largest grassroots Hip Hop organizational network in the world. In addition, Amer is also opening up important discussion and dialogue regarding Islam in a post-9/11 context both in the world and in the U.S. Throughout his career, Amer has consistently addressed all forms of marginality that impact how individuals experience institutions and issues of social justice that continue to face traditionally marginalized communities. Amer is continuing this work as a member of SpeakOut: Institute for Democratic Education and Culture and as Associate Director for the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. Today, his work continues to prove that the Hip Hop generation has an opportunity to shape its own future through passionate energy and a dedication to create effective positive change.

Hear what he has to say: @dawahpoet

December 09, 2010

7pm

Topic: Islamophobia