Welcoming Diversity Forum
The Welcoming Diversity Forum aims to create a setting in which the graduate community can actively engage in dialogue and continued education surrounding topics of diversity as they relate to current events, community climate, and interdisciplinary relations. The forum provides an environment in which students, staff, and faculty members can collaborate to inform, foster inclusion, cultivate cultural humility, and self-reflect.
The Welcoming Diversity Forum convenes one Friday each month from 12:00 to 12:55 p.m. in room 206 of the Psychology Building.
Archive of Previous Welcoming Diversity Forum Meetings
Yassmin Abdel-Magied – What Does My Headscarf Mean to You?
Cynthia Coupe – Neurodiversity: The New Normal
Alyson Seale – Purposeful Steps Away from Ableism
Janae Due – You Don’t Have to Love Your Body: Alternatives to Body Positivity
Dr. Jill Fish – Honoring Indigenous Cultures and Histories
Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez – What’s Missing from the American Immigrant Narrative
Catalina Morales – Why We Need to Stop Talking About DACA and Start Talking about Immigrants
Dr. Robin DiAngelo – Deconstructing White Privilege
Canwen Xu – I Am Not Your Asian Stereotype
Jess Fong – Where Do We Fit?
Dr. D-L Stewart – Scenes from a Black Trans Life
Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw –The Urgency of Intersectionality
Rachel Cargle – Coming to Terms with Racism's Inertia: Ancestral Accountability
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi – An Argument Between Racist and Anti-Racist Ideas
Dr. Susan David – How to be Your Best Self in Times of Crisis
Özlem Cekic – Why I Have Coffee with People Who Send Me Hate Mail
Dr. Brittney Cooper – The Racial Politics of Time
Geena Rocero – Why I Must Come Out
Jenni Chang & Lisa Dazols – This is what LGBT Life is like Around the World
Yoruba Richen – What the Gay Rights Movement Learned from the Civil Rights Movement
Dr. Marilyn Sanders Mobley – The Paradox of Diversity
Melinda Epler – 3 Ways to be a Better Ally in the Workplace
Zachary R. Wood – Why It's Worth Listening to People You Disagree With
Lee Mun Wah – The Secret to Changing the World
Dena Simmons – How Students of Color Confront Impostor Syndrome
Ivan Coyote – We All Need a Safe Place to Pee
Vernā Myers – How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them
Bryan Stevenson – We Need to Talk About an Injustice
Adam Galinsky – How to Speak Up for Yourself
Deborah Lipstadt – Behind the Lies of Holocaust Denial
Meliha Grbic – Calling In, Not Calling Out
Dalia Mogahed – What it's like to be Muslim in America
Stella Young – I'm Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much
Reshma Saujani – Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfection
Dr. Michael Kimmel – Why Gender Equality is Good for Everyone — Men Included
Laura Bates – Everyday Sexism
2016 I Am Psyched American Psychological Association Panel Discussion – What Psychology Means to Me
SafeZone Ally Training