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Speakers & Artists
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 | | Antwi Akom
Award Winning Educator, Scholar and Writer
• A Leading Expert on the Green Economy, Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR), and Climate Change
• Greening the Globe: Environmental Health, Educational Equity, and Social Justice
• Revolutionary Urbanism: Race, Climate Justice, and the Politics of Pollution in Cities and Schools
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 | | AXIS Dance Company
Disability and Dance
• A Pioneer in the World of Dance - Dancers With and Without Disabilities
• Award-winning Dance Company offering Performances, Workshops and Lectures
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 | | damali ayo
Author, Performing and Visual Artist
• Post-Race America? Racism in the Age of Obama
• Author of the best selling book How to Rent a Negro
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 | | Murali Balaji
Award Winning Journalist and Scholar
• Books include The Professor and The Pupil: The Politics of W.E.B. DuBois and Paul Robeson
• Editor of Desi Rap which examines the impact of hip hop on South Asian Americans
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 | | Khalil Bendib
Award-Winning Political Cartoonist
• Featured in over 1,700 newspapers across the country.
• Bringing a Muslim/Arab, progressive, non-Eurocentric perspective to the media.
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 | | Peter Bratt
Acclaimed Director and Screenwriter
• Award-winning Films include "La Mission" and "Follow Me Home"
• Longtime Native Activist and Community Advocate
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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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 | | Dr. Joy DeGruy
Renowned Educator and Author of "Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome"
•Author of the groundbreaking book, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome - America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
• Available for lectures and workshops
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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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Politically Sexy, Rambunctiously Entertaining Spoken Word Hip Hop Theater
• Fuses spoken word, hip-hop, funk, and experimental theater
• Comprised of African American and Asian American artists, they demonstrate the complex history that binds our history
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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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 | | Kiwi
Hip Hop Artist and Filipino Community Activist
• Formerly with the acclaimed Filipino hip hop group Native Guns, his latest CD is The Summer Exposure Mixtape
• Also facilitates Hip Hop workshops for young people
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 | | Roberto Lovato
One of the Nation’s Leading Latino Writers and Commentators
• Associate Editor with New America Media and frequent contributore to numerous magazines and websites
• Speaks and writes on growing Latino power and influence, immigration, media, politics, race and human rights
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 | | Ariel Luckey
Hip Hop Theater Artist, Poet, and Educator
• Exposes White Privilege and the Theft of Native Land through his solo show "Free Land: A Hip Hop Journey from the Streets of Oakland to the Wild Wild West"
• Director of the Free Land Project, which produces dynamic hip hop theater, keynotes, workshops, forums and cultural events
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 | | Ise Lyfe
Premier Spoken Word Artists, Emcee, and Educator
• Available for solo shows that include Is Everybody Stupid.(?) and Who's Krazy? as well as lectures, performances and workshops
• One of the top “101 Black Men in California Making a Difference”
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 | | devorah major
Accomplished Poet, Novelist, Performer
• Books include Ice Journeys, street smarts and An Open Weave
• Served as San Francisco’s Poet Laureate from 2002-2006
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 | | Adam Mansbach
Dynamic Novelist with a Hip-Hop Aesthetic
- Author of the bestsellers Angry Black White Boy and The End of the Jews
- His dynamic presentations address the complexities of identity, hip hop, history, literature, and popular culture
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 | | Camilo Mejía
The New Face of the Anti-War Movement
• The First Iraq War Veteran to Refuse to Fight
• Author of the book Road from Ar Ramidi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Mejía
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 | | Jeb Middlebrook
Anti-Racist Speaker and Organizer
• Director of the Solidarity Institute and co-founder of the spoken word and hip-hop duo, Anti-Racist Fifteen
• Author of A Different Shade of White, Another Kind of Male: A Guide to Using Privilege Responsibly
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 | | Mark Nowak
Documentary Poet, Social Critic, and Labor Activist
• Author of Shut Up Shut Down(afterword by Amiri Baraka) and Coal Mountain Elementary
• Regenerating the Rich Tradition of Working-Class Literature
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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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 | | 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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 | | Barbara Ransby
Award-Winning Writer and Historian
• Author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
• Co-founder of the Black Radical Congress, African American Women in Defense of Ourselves and the Progressive Media Project
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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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 | | Carmen Mitzi Sinnott
Award-Winning Actress and Arts Educator
• Her solo show based on her own parents, SNAPSHOT: a true story of love interrupted by invasion, explores the forces of history, race, and war
• Best Actress nominee at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival & recipient of a Brooklyn Arts Council’s NYSCA Individual Artist Award
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 | | Dave Zirin
Popular Sports Commentator and Writer
• Author of A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play, among other books
• Host of XM satellite’s popular weekly show, Edge of Sports Radio
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