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Speakers & Artists
Search for Speakers, Artists, Exhibits and Films below
 | | Opal Palmer Adisa
Celebrated Novelist, Poet and Educator
• American Book Award Winner for her poetry collection Tamarind and Mango Women
• Diversity educator focusing on racism, sexism, homophobia and internalized oppression
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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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 | | Andrew Jolivette
Accomplished Educator, Writer and Social/Cultural Critic
• Topics include Rethinking Identity: Mixed Race, HIV/AIDS and People of Color, Indigenous Rights and Cultural Survival, LGBT/Queer Community of Color Identity
• Author of Cultural Representation in Native America and Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed Race Native American Identity
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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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 | | 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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 | | Family Diversity Exhibits
Traveling Photo-Text Exhibits for Diversity Education
• LOVE MAKES A FAMILY: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People and Their Families
• NOTHING TO HIDE: Mental Illness in the Family
•IN OUR FAMILY: Portraits of All Kinds of Families
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