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Speakers & Artists
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 | | Margarita Alcantara
Writer, Performance Artist, Community Activist
• As a Queer Pilipina Mestiza, her presentations explore multiple identities as well as community organizing
• Founder and editor of the 'zine Bamboo Girl
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 | | Elaine Brown
Veteran Civil Rights Leader & Author
• New Age Racism in America: The Elimination of Race, Gender and Class Disparities
• First and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party in the 1970s
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 | | Linda Burnham
Activist & Writer for Women's Rights & Racial Justice
• Founder and Former Executive Director of the Women of Color Resource Center
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 | | Shakti Butler
Filmmaker and Facilitator of Diversity Dialogues
• Producer & Director of “Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible and "The Way Home"
• Building sustainable communities through equity and social justice
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 | | Kimberly Dark
Award Winning Performance Artist, Poet and Scholar
- Becoming the Subject of Your Own Story
- Gender, Race and Money
- Examining the intersections of gender, race and class with humor and compassion
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 | | Angela Davis
Author, Educator and Activist
– Author of numerous books on the prison industrial complex including Abolition Democracy and Are Prisons Obsolete?
- Leader in the movement for economic, racial, and gender equality
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 | | Melanie DeMore
Acclaimed African American Folk Singer
- Available for performances and vocal workshops
- Her "Sound Awareness” program explores the political and cultural effects of the media on music and young people
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 | | Jacqueline Elena Featherston
Acclaimed Writer, Educator and Visionary
• Works include the book Skin Deep: Women Writing on Color, Culture and Identity and the film "Alice Walker: Visions of the Spirit"
• Weaving Change: Equity and Social Justice Transforming Culture across Differences
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 | | Carolyn Gage
Award-winning Lesbian Playwright and Performer
• Plays include The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Ugly Ducklings and Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist
• Books include Take Stage! How to Direct and Produce a Lesbian Play
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 | | Heather Gold
Hilarious Comedian, Speaker, and Solo Performer
• Her latest talk looks at gay marriage - I Didn't Know How Much I Loved You
Till Ken Starr Filed to Divorce Us
• Her award-winning solo show, I Look Like an Egg, But I Identify as a Cookie is an interactive baking comedy
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 | | Lakota Harden
Acclaimed Orator, Community Organizer, Diversity Trainer
• Veteran activist in Native American communities
• Her lectures and workshops focus on unlearning racism, sexism and other social oppressions as well as "decolonization" workshops for Indigenous peoples
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 | | Alice Y. Hom
Educator and Community Builder
• Co-editor of the anthology Q & A: Queer in Asian America
• Makes the connections on race, gender, and sexuality as well as address topics of lesbian of color organizing, Asian American feminism, and Asian American lesbian and gay cultural activism
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 | | Ericka Huggins
Human Rights Activist, Poet and Scholar
• Former Black Panther leader and political prisoner
• Lectures focus on womens' leadership, physical and emotional well-being of women and children, youth incarceration, education, and the role of spiritual practice in sustaining activism and promoting change
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 | | Frances Kendall
Consultant and Author on Diversity, White Privilege and Organizational Change
• Author of Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race and Diversity in the Classroom
• Over thirty-five years experience in helping organizations and institutions address diversity and create change
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 | | Winona LaDuke
Internationally Renowned Activist working on Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Environmental Justice in Native America
• Author of numerous books including Recovering the Sacred, All our Relations and a novel, Last Standing Woman
• Executive Director of the Honor the Earth and founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project
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 | | Elizabeth Martinez
Veteran Social Justice Organizer and Author
• Books include the classic 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures, De Colores Means All of Us:Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century and 500 Years of Chicana Women’s History
• Co-Founder and Director of the Institute for MultiRacial Justice
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 | | Peggy McIntosh
Lecturer & Writer on White Privilege, Male Privilege and Equitable Curricula
• Author of the ground-breaking essay "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
•Founder and co-director of the National SEED(Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) Project on Inclusive Curriculum
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 | | Reanae McNeal
Awarding Winning Performer, Playwright, Oral Herstorian
• Active in the anti-violence movement focusing on rape/sexual assualt
• Solo shows include Don't Speak My Mother's Name In Vain and Blues Women Don't Wear No Shoes
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 | | Pamela Means
Acclaimed Singer-Songwriter and Acoustic Artist
- A favorite at Black History Month, Women’s Month, Gay Pride, and Take Back the Night events.
- Seven CD releases including her latest, Precedent
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 | | Rev. Irene Monroe
Lesbian Theologian, Scholar, Writer and Activist
• Popular columnist for New England Blade, The Advocate Magazine, Black Commentator and Huffington Post
• Sought-after speaker on race, women's spirituality and gender issues.
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 | | Cherríe Moraga
Prolific Playwright, Poet, and Essayist
• Recipient of numerous awards for her plays including a United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature
• Co-editor of the groundbreaking This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, among other books
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 | | María Ochoa
Acclaimed Writer, Activist and Scholar
• Books include Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence and Creative Collectives: Chicana Painters Working in Community
• Liberating the Historical Narrative: Creating Oral History Projects
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 | | Alix Olson
Folk Poet and Progressive Queer Artist-Activist
• Editor of the acclaimed book Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken World Revolution and author of several books of poetry and spoken word CDS
• Poetry slam champion and subject of award-winning documentary Left Lane: On the Road with Folk Poet Alix Olson
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 | | Ishle Park
Award-Winning Poet and Singer
• Author of The Temperature of This Water, her poetry is also featured on her CD, Work is Love
• Winner of numerous writing awards and former Poet Laureate of Queens
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 | | Sofía Quintero (aka Black Artemis)
Novelist, Filmmaker & Social Justice Activist
• Author of the hip hop novels Explicit Content and Picture Me Rollin’ and the "chica-lit" novel Divas Don't Yield
• Co-founder of Chica Luna Productions
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 | | Ninotchka Rosca
Contemporary writer and Human Rights Activist
• Author of six books including State of War, Twice Blessed and The Fall of Marcos
• Founder and the first national chair of GABRIELA, the preeminent Filipina women's rights organization
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 | | Loretta J. Ross
Women's Rights & Human Rights Leader
• National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
• Co-author of Undivided Right: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice
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 | | Sonia Sanchez
Renowned Writer, Poet, and Playwright
• Author of over a dozen books including Homecoming, We a BaddDDD People, I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems
•A leading force in African American literary and political culture for over three decades
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 | | Scott Turner Schofield
Award-Winning Transgender Performer, Writer and Educator
•Stage performances include Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps and Debutante Balls
• Author of Two Truths and a Lie
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 | | Mab Segrest
Lesbian Feminist Scholar, Writer and Activist
- Adressses topics of White Privilege, GLBT and Women's issues, Mental Health and Ending Campus Sexual Assault
- Author of Memoir of a Race Traitor and Born to Belonging: Writings on Spirit and Justice
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 | | Rinku Sen
Leading Figure in the Racial Justice Movement
•Executive Director of Applied Research Center and Publisher of Colorlines magazine
• Books include The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization and Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing
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 | | Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Lesbian Feminist Filmmaker and Writer
• Producer, writer, and director of the feature length documentary NO! (The Rape Documentary)
• Her published essays are featured in several anthologies and journals in the U.S. and abroad
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 | | Noemi Sohn
Activist for Disability Rights and Racial Equality, and Media Advocate
• Lectures, workshops and poetry explore disability & identity, looking at ableism & other oppressions
• Working on a documentary film on women, race and disability.
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 | | Cathi Tactaquin
Executive Director of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
- The Immigrant Rights Agenda and the Election of Barack Obama
- Immigration and Migration in the Global Era
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 | | Madonna Thunder Hawk
Community Organizer in Native America
• One of the original members of the American Indian Movement (AIM)
• Co-founder of the Black Hills Alliance and Women of All Nations
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 | | Alice Walker
The Essential Writer of Our Times
• Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple as well as numerous other novels, books of poetry, short stories and essay collections
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 | | Kristina Wong
Solo Performer, Educator, and Culture Jammer
• Her solo show, "Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," explores mental illness among Asian American women
• Her quirky performance pranks and installations reinterpret Homeland Security, Asian sororities, and the Miss Chinatown Pageant, among other topics
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 | | Helen Zia
Award-Winning Journalist and Scholar
• Author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People and co-author of My Country Versus Me
• One of the "most influential Asian Americans of the decade," her speech topics include "From Minority to Majority, Invisible to Envisioning"
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