Diversity Week Schedule | Diversity | SIU

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Infinite Flow – An Inclusive Dance Company founded by Marisa Hamamoto is an award-winning Los Angeles-based nonprofit and professional dance company composed of dancers with and without disabilities. Infinite Flow’s mission is to dismantle biases, promote inclusion, celebrate intersectionality, and encourage people to learn something new about themselves and the world around them.

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Sasha (they/she/elle) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Algorithmic Justice League, and a Faculty Affiliate with the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Sasha is the author of two books and numerous journal articles, book chapters, and other research publications. Their book Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need was published by the MIT Press in 2020. Sasha is a member of the Steering Committee of the Design Justice Network.

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Haben Girma is the first deaf blind person to graduate from Harvard Law School and is now a human rights lawyer and renowned advocate for disability justice. She will discuss Disability Justice and Digital Accessibility. Haben believes disability is an opportunity for innovation, and she teaches organizations the importance of choosing inclusion.

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Jonathan Friedman is the director of free expression and education at PEN America. Campuses have become sites of polarization and heated disagreement, but also of trolling, harassment, and bad-faith actors and arguments. This session will focus on steps professors and students can take to secure their academic freedom, be allies to those in need, and support robust free expression while also acknowledging and combating hate and bias. We'll discuss how campus members can effectively encourage open and respectful exchange, while addressing situations in which racist or hateful arguments are put forth. The session will also emphasize how faculty and administrators can understand both the importance of--and limitations on-- a "good faith" approach to exchange both in the classroom and on campus generally.

Dr. Reynaldo Anderson is an Associate Professor of Communication at Harris-Stowe State University and Executive Director of the Black Speculative Arts Movement. He focuses on the history and emergence of the Black American Speculative Tradition, the work being done by his Black Speculative Arts Movement, his own mystic family legacies traced back to Africa, and his vision for the next iteration of Afrofuturism. In his presentation, The City We Became, he will examine the intersections of identity in the five boroughs of New York City and relate it to issues of intersectionality and how we as individuals embrace inclusivity.

J. Leigh Garcia is an artist born and raised in Dallas, Texas. Following the roots of her own biracial ancestry, Garcia explores the complex relationship between Texans and Mexicans—particularly, the racialization and displacement of unauthorized Latinx immigrants. She will present her lecture "Navigating a Biracial Identity Through Art" to explore artistic expressions of identity.