Marquee Diversity Events

Upcoming speakers/events

The Power of Words with Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
7 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - EVENT PASSED

The Power of Words event details

The Silence is the Sound: Spoken Word Poetry & Personal Storytelling OUTLOUD Workshop – Workshop
12 p.m. Thursday, March 28, 2013 - EVENT PASSED

Workshop details

Overview

Marquee Diversity Events (MDE) bring 1-2 nationally recognized speakers/performers to campus each year. The events serve to bring issues of diversity, social justice and multiculturalism to our community. Speakers/Performers are chosen by a committee that includes students, staff, and faculty.

Goals

1. Select programming that raises cultural and diversity awareness and/or confronts discrimination
2. Emphasize student leadership and student experience in process of selecting speaker and coordinating event
3. Achieve a diverse audience

Past speakers/events

• Massive Monkees, November 15, 2012
• Mark Zupan, March 7, 2012: "Murderball: Smashing Stereotypes"
  
• Michelle Alexander, December 1, 2011: "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"
  
• Nikki Giovanni, March 9, 2011: "An Evening of Poetry, Love and Enlightenment"
• Winona LaDuke, March 2010: Indigenous Strategies for a Sustainable Future*
• Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, November 2009: Spoken Word Artist
• Jennifer Jako, April 2009: Positive: Living with HIV*
• 9 Parts of Desire, January 2009: One woman play about 9 Iraqi women
• Step Afrika, April 2008: Stepping history and performance
• Bil and Joe, November 2007: When the Gays Move Into Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood*
• David Cole, February 2007: Enemy Aliens and Constitutional Freedoms: How Double Standards Have Undermined Our Liberty, Our Character and Our Security in the War on Terror*

Podcasts

*Download an audio or video podcast of these lectures by visiting WSU Vancouver's iTunes U site.

Volunteers

Are you interested in bringing diversity related speakers or performers to campus? Interested in gaining skills in event planning? Contact Bola at majekoba@vancouver.wsu.edu or 360-546-9568