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Speakers & Artists
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 | | Opal Palmer Adisa
Celebrated Novelist, Poet and Educator
• American Book Award Winner for her poetry collection Tamarind and Mango Women
• Diversity educator focusing on racism, sexism, homophobia and internalized oppression
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 | | Amer Ahmed
Acclaimed Scholar Examining Islamophobia
• Islam: Beyond the Myths, Breaking down the Barriers
• Hip Hop Activism Within Multicultural and Academic Arenas
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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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 | | Ana María Alvarez
Founding Artistic Director of the Acclaimed Salsa-based, Urban-Latin Dance Theater Company Contra-Tiempo
• Taking the Lead: Redefining Afro Latin Dance to Empower and Connect Communities
• Reclaiming the Latino Voice in Latino Dance and Salsa
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 | | Anthony Arnove
Best-selling Author and Activist
• Editor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People's History of the United States
• Author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
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 | | AXIS Dance Company
Disability and Dance
• A Pioneer in the World of Dance - Dancers With and Without Disabilities
• Award-winning Dance Company offering Performances, Workshops and Lectures
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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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 | | Subhankar Banerjee
Internationally Acclaimed Photographer, Writer, and Environmental Communicator
• • Leading International Voice on Climate Change and Resource Development
• Indigenous Human Rights, Land Conservation, and Sustainability
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 | | Amiri Baraka
A Vanguard in the Black Arts Movement
• One of the nation’s most influential and prolific African American artists
• Author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, music history and criticism.
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 | | Khalil Bendib
Award-Winning Political Cartoonist
• Featured in over 1,700 newspapers across the country.
• Bringing a Muslim/Arab, progressive, non-Eurocentric perspective to the media.
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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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 | | Jello Biafra
Musician, Spoken Word Artist, Green Party Activist
• Former leader of the punk band the Dead Kennedys
• Ran for the Green Party Presidential Nominee in 2000 & active in Ralph Nader's 2004 & 2008 Campaigns
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 | | Mohammed Bilal
Diversity Consultant, Actor, Musician & Poet
• Facilitator of over 300 diversity presentations/workshops worldwide
• Former castmember of MTV's The Real World San Francisco
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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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 | | Kate Bornstein
Transexual Author, Playwright & Performance Artist
• Author of Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us , among other books which are taught in over 120 colleges and universities
• Lectures and Workshops on sex, gender, and alternatives to teen suicide
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 | | Peter Bratt
Acclaimed Director and Screenwriter
• Award-winning Films include "La Mission" and "Follow Me Home"
• Longtime Native Activist and Community Advocate
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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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 | | Kimberly Dark
Award Winning Performance Artist, Poet and Scholar
- Becoming the Subject of Your Own Story
- Gender, Race and Money
- Examining the intersections of gender, race and class with humor and compassion
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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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 | | Melanie DeMore
Acclaimed African American Folk Singer
- Available for performances and vocal workshops
- Her "Sound Awareness” program explores the political and cultural effects of the media on music and young people
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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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 | | Jacqueline Elena Featherston
Acclaimed Writer, Educator and Visionary
• Works include the book Skin Deep: Women Writing on Color, Culture and Identity and the film "Alice Walker: Visions of the Spirit"
• Weaving Change: Equity and Social Justice Transforming Culture across Differences
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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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 | | Carolyn Gage
Award-winning Lesbian Playwright and Performer
• Plays include The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Ugly Ducklings and Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist
• Books include Take Stage! How to Direct and Produce a Lesbian Play
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 | | Heather Gold
Hilarious Comedian, Speaker, and Solo Performer
• Her latest talk looks at gay marriage - I Didn't Know How Much I Loved You
Till Ken Starr Filed to Divorce Us
• Her award-winning solo show, I Look Like an Egg, But I Identify as a Cookie is an interactive baking comedy
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 | | Lakota Harden
Acclaimed Orator, Community Organizer, Diversity Trainer
• Veteran activist in Native American communities
• Her lectures and workshops focus on unlearning racism, sexism and other social oppressions as well as "decolonization" workshops for Indigenous peoples
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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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 | | Ericka Huggins
Human Rights Activist, Poet and Scholar
• Former Black Panther leader and political prisoner
• Lectures focus on womens' leadership, physical and emotional well-being of women and children, youth incarceration, education, and the role of spiritual practice in sustaining activism and promoting change
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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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 | | 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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 | | devorah major
Accomplished Poet, Novelist, Performer
• Books include Ice Journeys, street smarts and An Open Weave
• Served as San Francisco’s Poet Laureate from 2002-2006
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 | | Adam Mansbach
Dynamic Novelist with a Hip-Hop Aesthetic
- Author of the bestsellers Angry Black White Boy and The End of the Jews
- His dynamic presentations address the complexities of identity, hip hop, history, literature, and popular culture
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 | | Reanae McNeal
Awarding Winning Performer, Playwright, Oral Herstorian
• Active in the anti-violence movement focusing on rape/sexual assualt
• Solo shows include Don't Speak My Mother's Name In Vain and Blues Women Don't Wear No Shoes
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 | | Pamela Means
Acclaimed Singer-Songwriter and Acoustic Artist
- A favorite at Black History Month, Women’s Month, Gay Pride, and Take Back the Night events.
- Seven CD releases including her latest, Precedent
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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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 | | Cherríe Moraga
Prolific Playwright, Poet, and Essayist
• Recipient of numerous awards for her plays including a United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature
• Co-editor of the groundbreaking This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, among other books
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 | | Jesus "Chuy" Negrete
Nationally-Recognized Entertainer and Educator
• One of the nation's foremost musicologists and interpreters of Mexican and Chicano music
• Founder and Director of the Mexican Cultural Institute
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 | | Mark Nowak
Documentary Poet, Social Critic, and Labor Activist
• Author of Shut Up Shut Down(afterword by Amiri Baraka) and Coal Mountain Elementary
• Regenerating the Rich Tradition of Working-Class Literature
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 | | María Ochoa
Acclaimed Writer, Activist and Scholar
• Books include Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence and Creative Collectives: Chicana Painters Working in Community
• Liberating the Historical Narrative: Creating Oral History Projects
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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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 | | Ishle Park
Award-Winning Poet and Singer
• Author of The Temperature of This Water, her poetry is also featured on her CD, Work is Love
• Winner of numerous writing awards and former Poet Laureate of Queens
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 | | Sofía Quintero (aka Black Artemis)
Novelist, Filmmaker & Social Justice Activist
• Author of the hip hop novels Explicit Content and Picture Me Rollin’ and the "chica-lit" novel Divas Don't Yield
• Co-founder of Chica Luna Productions
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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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 | | Ninotchka Rosca
Contemporary writer and Human Rights Activist
• Author of six books including State of War, Twice Blessed and The Fall of Marcos
• Founder and the first national chair of GABRIELA, the preeminent Filipina women's rights organization
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 | | Sonia Sanchez
Renowned Writer, Poet, and Playwright
• Author of over a dozen books including Homecoming, We a BaddDDD People, I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems
•A leading force in African American literary and political culture for over three decades
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 | | John Santos
One of the Leading Exponents of Afro-Latin Music
•Four-time Grammy nominee, Founder and director of the Machete Ensemble
• Percussionist, music educator and historian, offering workshops, presentations and residencies on Afro-Caribbean music
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 | | Scott Turner Schofield
Award-Winning Transgender Performer, Writer and Educator
•Stage performances include Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps and Debutante Balls
• Author of Two Truths and a Lie
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 | | Molly Secours
Writer & Filmmaker for Racial Equity and Social Justice
- Advisory Board Member of Fisk University’s 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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 | | Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Lesbian Feminist Filmmaker and Writer
• Producer, writer, and director of the feature length documentary NO! (The Rape Documentary)
• Her published essays are featured in several anthologies and journals in the U.S. and abroad
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 | | A Slice of Rice, Frijoles & Greens
Multicultural Program of Spoken Word, Music, Movement and Song
• African American(Chic Street Man), Latina(Paulina Sahagun) and Asian American(Dan Kwong) artists come together to take audiences beyond cultural borders in a show that entertains and enlightens
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 | | John Trudell
Poet, Recording Artist, Actor and Activist
•Books of poetry include his latest, Lines from a Mined Mind: The Words of John Trudell
• Has released some one dozen albums featuring his poetry set to traditional Native music as well as contemporary sounds
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 | | Upsurge!
High Octane Jazz Poetry Duo
• Jazz Poets Raymond Nat Turner & Zigi Lowenberg move minds and incite action while always holding true to the rhythm
• CD releases include Chromatology and All Hands on Deck
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 | | Alice Walker
The Essential Writer of Our Times
• Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple as well as numerous other novels, books of poetry, short stories and essay collections
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 | | Teresa Walsh
Poet, Playwright and Actress
• Her solo show Body Revolution: From Harlem to Havana explores her own disability and the healing of the human spirit
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 | | Follow Me Home
An Exploration of Race & Identity from Director-Writer Peter Bratt
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