The Equity & Justice Institute
Speaker Series
The Younes and Soraya Nazarian Equity & Justice Distinguished Lecture Series is a key feature of the Equity & Justice Institute.
The series helps stimulate dialogue among students, educators and community leaders committed to tackling the problems of racism, poverty, war, environmental degradation, educational inequities, religious persecution, genocide and other forms of injustice. Nationally and internationally recognized thought leaders are invited to campus each year to present a talk on a specific topic related to equity and justice, not only to the Crossroads community, but to the public at large. Speakers are sought from a variety of local and national organizations.
Each presentation is not an isolated event, but a key component of other Institute programs and activities focused on helping to find solutions to the equity and justice problem addressed by the speaker.
Each year as part of the lecture series, Crossroads invites a guest speaker or screens a film that specifically enhances our existing curriculum on the Holocaust and other forms of genocide and/or religious oppression. These lectures are free and open to the public, free of charge, thanks to the extraordinary generosity of the Nazarian family.
The series is an initiative of the Younes & Soraya Nazarian Family Foundation, which supports educational causes in a broad spectrum of institutions and through a wide variety of avenues: academic, public policy, community-based, social and artistic programs in the United States and Israel.
These events are free and open to the public. If you are not a member of the Crossroads community and you would like to be notified of upcoming Speaker Series events, please click here.
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Joanna Mendelson
We are pleased to rebroadcast this important conversation with Joanna Mendelson. Mendelson speaks about the dangerous proliferation of white supremacist extremist groups in the U.S. and in California. The online event is free and open to the public.As associate director of the Center on Extremism (COE) of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Mendelson works to combat white supremacists, anti-government militia groups, terrorism and all forms of hate in the real world and online. Mendelson has worked at ADL since August 2000. To date, she has trained more than 12,000 federal, state and local law enforcement officers, judges and public officials nationwide. She is a certified subject matter expert on domestic terrorism-related activity and has provided testimony in numerous criminal cases. In partnership with her COE colleagues and law enforcement partners, she has helped thwart potential extremist attacks against Jews and other vulnerable communities. Additionally, Mendelson authored, then testified and successfully lobbied in favor of legislation addressing paper terrorism tactics used by sovereign citizens. She frequently represents ADL on national and international media outlets, including CNN, the BBC and CBS. Mendelson is also the recipient of ADL’s prestigious Senn Award for professional excellence.
THE YOUNES AND SORAYA NAZARIAN EQUITY & JUSTICE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Upcoming Speakers
The Younes and Soraya Nazarian Equity & Justice Distinguished Lecture Series
Past Events
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2019-20
March 4, 2020
Robin DiAngelo, New York Times-Bestselling Author
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Dec. 18, 2019
Zenon Neumark, Author and Holocaust Survivor
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Oct. 14, 2019
Winona LaDuke, Native American Rights Activist
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Sept. 9, 2019
Ibram X. Kendi, Author and Antiracism Activist
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2018-19
April 22, 2019Helen Gym, Philadelphia City Council Member“When They Go Low, We Go Local: How Municipal Politics Power Grassroots Justice Movements”Nov. 13, 2018Interfaith DialogueIn partnership with The Guibord Center -
2017-18
Recovered Voices Lecture SeriesIn the spring of 2018, four acclaimed speakers visited Crossroads for a series of talks presented in partnership with the Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices at the Colburn School. Recovered Voices encourages greater awareness and more frequent performances of music by composers whose careers and lives were disrupted—or worse—during the years of the Nazi regime in Europe.Feb 6, 2018Maestro James Conlon, Music Director of LA Opera*March 7, 2018Robert Elias, Director of the Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered VoicesApril 10, 2018Stephanie Barron, Senior Curator of Modern art at LACMAApril 25, 2018Alex Ross, New Yorker Magazine Music Critic*Inaugural Younes and Soraya Nazarian Equity & Justice Distinguished Lecture Series event.
