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 brings noted scholars and activists to campus to help 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.
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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Robin DiAngelo
Robin DiAngelo is the New York Times-bestselling author of “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.” Her book explores how race shapes the lives of white people, explains what makes racism so hard for white people to see and identifies common white racial patterns that prevent us from moving toward greater racial equity, providing the framework to develop white racial literacy. DiAngelo received her doctorate in multicultural education from the University of Washington, where she is an affiliate associate professor of education, and has worked with a wide variety of private, nonprofit and governmental organizations.Wednesday, March 4, 2020
7-8:30 p.m.
Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences
The Younes and Soraya Nazarian Equity & Justice Distinguished Lecture Series
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The Younes and Soraya Nazarian Equity & Justice Distinguished Lecture Series
Past Events
2019-20
Dec. 18, 2019Zenon 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.
