Cultural Awareness Months - California State University, East Bay

DISC MISSION STATEMENT

The Diversity and Inclusion Student Center at Cal State East Bay is dedicated to creating and maintaining an inclusive campus environment that challenges oppression and provides a space for dialogue and engagement. We provide opportunities for leadership development, community engagement and co-curricular programming on various topics of diversity and inclusion. The Diversity and Inclusion Student Center seeks to better the campus and greater community by advocating for equity and social justice.

(510) 885-7069 csueastbay.edu/diversity-inclusion

SOCIAL JUSTICE AWARENESS MONTH: DEFINING AMERICA: EXCLUSIONS APPLY

LATINX AWARENESS MONTH: BUILDING DREAMS NOT WALLS

Reyna Grande

12:15 p.m. ? 1:15 p.m. -- UU 311 Reyna Grande is an award-winning author and inspiration speaker. Join us for a community discussion as we examine her latest work "A Dream Called Home," as it relates to our theme "Building Dreams not Walls."

ACCESSIBILITY AWARENESS MONTH: REVEALING BARRIERS

Keith Jones

12:15 p.m. ? 1:15 p.m. UU-311 Keith Jones, a hiphop artist and disability activist, will lead a community dialogue highlighting the societal barriers to inclusion.

NATIVE AWARENESS MONTH: RECLAMATION

Matika Wilbur

12:15 p.m. ? 1:15 p.m. UU MPR Matika Wilbur is a photographer committed to changing the way we see Native America. She will lead a community discussion building o of her latest work, Project 562.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

LATINX AWARENESS MONTH

SOCIAL JUSTICE AWARENESS MONTH

ACCESSIBILITY AWARENESS MONTH

BLACK HISTORY AWARENESS MONTH

Deepa Iyer

12:15 p.m. ? 1:15 p.m. -- UU 1001B Join us for a dialogue with Deepa Iyer, author of "We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Mulsim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future," as we explore failed promise of the nation of immigrants. speaker/deepa-iyer

BLACK HISTORY AWARENESS MONTH: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND ACTIVISM

Shaun King

12:15 p.m. ? 1:15 p.m. -- Theater Civil rights activist and journalist, Shaun King, will lead a community dialogue exploring the topic, "Civil Rights Today the New Civil Rights Movement." speakers/shaun-king

WOMEN'S HISTORY AWARENESS MONTH: OUR BODIES

NATIVE AWARENESS MONTH

WOMEN'S HISTORY AWARENESS MONTH

Staceyann Chin

12:15 p.m. ? 1:15 p.m. -- UU MPR Staceyann Chin, an "out poet and political activist" since 1998, will share poetry and lead a community dialogue examining our theme for the month: "Our Bodies." speakers/staceyann-chin

LGBTQ+ AWARENESS MONTH: ALLIED IN ACTION, UNITED IN JUSTICE

Tommy Orange

12:15 p.m. ? 1:15 p.m. UU MPR Tommy Orange, author of the New York Times Best Seller "There There," will discuss his writing process and various themes of Native culture and history that are laced throughout his works.

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APIMESA MONTH: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Aunty Pua

12:15 p.m. ? 1:15 p.m. UU MPR Join us in community with Aunty Pua, an activist and Hawaiian culturalist, as we discuss the ongoing struggle to preserve Mauna Kea and other sacred sites of Hawaii.

APIMESA & LGBTQ+ AWARENESS MONTH

Yosimar Reyes

12:15 p.m. ? 1:15 p.m. -- UU 311 Yosimar Reyes, a nationally-acclaimed poet and public speaker, will share some of his poetry and lead a community discussion reflecting on the theme: "Allied in Action, United in Justice."

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