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Artists and Speakers
Peter Bratt Acclaimed Director and Screenwriter • Award-winning Films include "La Mission" and "Follow Me Home"
• Longtime Native Activist and Community Advocate
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
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
Dawn-Elissa Fischer The “DEF” Professor • Professor of Africana Studies and a Leading Hip Hop Scholar
• Co-founder of the National Hip Hop Political Convention
Roberta Goodman & the Film "Empress Hotel" Putting a Human Face on Homelessness • Empowering communities to address homelessness, drug abuse and mental illness
• A model for transformation
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
Victor Lewis and Hugh Vasquez Two of the Men from "The Color of Fear," the Breakthrough Film about Race Relations • Co-authors of the curriculum, Lessons from "The Color of Fear"
• Offer engaging workshops and presentations based on the film and moving beyond "The Color of Fear"
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
Molly Secours Writer & Filmmaker for Racial Equity and Social Justice - Advisory Board Member of Fisk University’s Race Relations Institute and a leading voice on white privilege
- Films include “Faces Of TennCare,""College On The Brain," and "Welcome To My Hood"
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
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.
Renee Tajima-Peña Academy-Award Nominated Documentary Filmmaker • Films include Who Killed Vincent Chin?, My America…or Honk if You Love Buddha and Calavera Highway
• Associate Professor in the University of California's Social Documentation Program
