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Speakers & Artists
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 | | Antwi Akom
Award Winning Educator, Scholar and Writer
A Leading Expert on the Green Economy, Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR), and Climate Change
Greening the Globe: Environmental Health, Educational Equity, and Social Justice
Revolutionary Urbanism: Race, Climate Justice, and the Politics of Pollution in Cities and Schools
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 | | Margarita Alcantara
Writer, Performance Artist, Community Activist
As a Queer Pilipina Mestiza, her presentations explore multiple identities as well as community organizing
Founder and editor of the 'zine Bamboo Girl
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 | | Daniel "Nane" Alejandrez
Founder and Executive Director, Barrios Unidos
Community Organizing: Combating Poverty, Gangs, and Drugs
Creating Youth-Centered Economic Development
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 | | damali ayo
Author, Performing and Visual Artist
Post-Race America? Racism in the Age of Obama
Author of the best selling book How to Rent a Negro
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 | | Michael Benitez Jr.
Scholar & Speaker Integrating Hip Hop Pedagogy & Academic Inquiry
Building Sustained Cross- and Intercultural Unity and Dialogue
Empowerment and Education: Addressing Issues of Diversity and Social Justice
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 | | Mohammed Bilal & Josh "BOAC" Goldstein Orange Flash
Hip Hop Duo Looks at Race, Racism, and the Way We Get Along
Challenging notions of Black and White, Jew and Muslim, urban and suburban to build cross-cultural communication and understanding
Ten Tools for Open Interaction
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 | | Brave New Voices on Tour
...because the next generation can speak for itself.
Includes some of the brightest young performance poets nationwide
These voices of 21st Century America transcend race, class, gender, orientation, and red state/blue state politics to show us what the next generation of leaders looks and sounds like
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 | | Angela Davis
Author, Educator and Activist
Author of numerous books on the prison industrial complex including Abolition Democracy and Are Prisons Obsolete?
- Leader in the movement for economic, racial, and gender equality
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 | | Noura Erakat
Palestinian American Human Rights Attorney & Professor
- Co-Founder of the American Association for Palestinian Equal Rights
- Important voice for Palestinians in the United States and Middle East
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 | | Dawn-Elissa Fischer
The DEF Professor
Professor of Africana Studies and a Leading Hip Hop Scholar
Co-founder of the National Hip Hop Political Convention
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 | | headRush
Spoken Word Theater and Popular Education Crew
Performances combine elements of Xicano theatre, spoken word and hip hop to ignite critical dialogue and social action
Makes complex issues accessible and relevant to diverse audiences through dramatic multi-media storytelling and interactive workshops
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Politically Sexy, Rambunctiously Entertaining Spoken Word Hip Hop Theater
Fuses spoken word, hip-hop, funk, and experimental theater
Comprised of African American and Asian American artists, they demonstrate the complex history that binds our history
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 | | Van Jones
Globally Recognized Pioneer in The Green Collar Economy
Author of the bestseller The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Solve Our Two Biggest Problems
Former Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality
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 | | Marc Bamuthi Joseph
A Leading Voice in Performance and Arts Education
National Poetry Slam champion, Broadway veteran, dancer/choreographer and featured artist on Russell Simmons' Def Poetry on HBO
Recipient of the U.S. Artists Rockefeller Fellowship which annually recognizes 50 of the country's "greatest living artists"
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 | | Kiwi
Hip Hop Artist and Filipino Community Activist
Formerly with the acclaimed Filipino hip hop group Native Guns, his latest CD is The Summer Exposure Mixtape
Also facilitates Hip Hop workshops for young people
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 | | Ariel Luckey
Hip Hop Theater Artist, Poet, and Educator
Exposes White Privilege and the Theft of Native Land through his solo show "Free Land: A Hip Hop Journey from the Streets of Oakland to the Wild Wild West"
Director of the Free Land Project, which produces dynamic hip hop theater, keynotes, workshops, forums and cultural events
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 | | Ise Lyfe
Premier Spoken Word Artists, Emcee, and Educator
Available for solo shows that include Is Everybody Stupid.(?) and Who's Krazy? as well as lectures, performances and workshops
One of the top 101 Black Men in California Making a Difference
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 | | Ben Manski
Executive Director of the Liberty Tree Foundation
Former co-chair of the Green Party and past National Director of Campus Greens USA
Efforts focus on building a new democracy movement in the U.S. and democratizing education
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 | | Elizabeth Martinez
Veteran Social Justice Organizer and Author
Books include the classic 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures, De Colores Means All of Us:Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century and 500 Years of Chicana Womens History
Co-Founder and Director of the Institute for MultiRacial Justice
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 | | Jeb Middlebrook
Anti-Racist Speaker and Organizer
Director of the Solidarity Institute and co-founder of the spoken word and hip-hop duo, Anti-Racist Fifteen
Author of A Different Shade of White, Another Kind of Male: A Guide to Using Privilege Responsibly
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 | | Jeb Middlebrook and Trevor Wysling: Anti-Racist Fifteen
Anti-Racist Spoken Word and HipHop Duo
Performances accompanied by workshops and discussions on creating anti-racist culture on campus and in local communities
Featured in the film Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible
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 | | Carlos Muρoz Jr.
Prominent Political Scientist, Historian and Public Intellectual
Author of Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement and the forthcoming Diversity and The Challenge for a Multiracial Democracy In America
Founding chair of the first Chicano Studies department in the nation
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 | | Pedro Noguera
A Leading Voice on Education Reform and the Achievement Gap
- Award-winning educator, activist and author
- Books include Unfinished Business: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap in Our Schools and City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming The Promise of Public Education
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 | | Alix Olson
Folk Poet and Progressive Queer Artist-Activist
Editor of the acclaimed book Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken World Revolution and author of several books of poetry and spoken word CDS
Poetry slam champion and subject of award-winning documentary Left Lane: On the Road with Folk Poet Alix Olson
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 | | Michael Reyes
Spoken Word Poet and Youth Organizer
Featured in the independent film "Urban Poet," his poetry CD is My Voice
Co-founder of Chicago youth centers Batey Urbano and Zocalo Urbano
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 | | Boots Riley
Hip Hop Artist and Raptivist for Social Justice
Co-founder of the hip hop group The Coup whose award-winning albums include Party Music and Pick a Bigger Weapon
Spoken word poet and community organizer
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 | | Loretta J. Ross
Women's Rights & Human Rights Leader
National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
Co-author of Undivided Right: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice
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 | | Molly Secours
Writer & Filmmaker for Racial Equity and Social Justice
- Advisory Board Member of Fisk Universitys Race Relations Institute and a leading voice on white privilege
- Films include Faces Of TennCare,""College On The Brain," and "Welcome To My Hood"
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 | | Rinku Sen
Leading Figure in the Racial Justice Movement
Executive Director of Applied Research Center and Publisher of Colorlines magazine
Books include The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization and Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing
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 | | Madonna Thunder Hawk
Community Organizer in Native America
One of the original members of the American Indian Movement (AIM)
Co-founder of the Black Hills Alliance and Women of All Nations
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 | | Tim Wise
One of the Country's Leading Anti-Racist Writers and Activists
Author of Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity and Between Barack and a Hard Place: Challenging Racism, Privilege and Denial in the Age of Obama, among other titles
Available for lectures, workshops and trainings
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