Professor Keisha N. Blain—historian, author and president of the African American Intellectual History Society—is Occidental College’s 2021 Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-in-Residence.
Due to the current health and economic crisis, more than 54 million people in America are struggling with hunger. But seasonal and charitable work can’t end hunger alone. Higher impact work, like volunteering professional skills at an anti-hunger organization or advocating for a stronger safety net or higher wages can make a bigger difference in the fight to end hunger.
Join us to see paintings and a video loop of original dance performances created by youth artists in our Visual Art + Poetry and Performing Art + Dance workshops. Stop by anytime to see the work through our street facing windows on York Boulevard.
Collaborate is a FREE series of six workshops conceived and taught by Occidental College students to 6-8th graders in the local community.
Lisette Garcia holds a PhD in experimental psychology from Tufts University with an expertise in the impact of culture and identity on individual decision-making. She has taught at Harvard and Columbia University and she later became a Post-Doc and Professor at John Jay College Of Criminal Justice. She is founder of the World Migration Fund that is dedicated to restoring dignity to the immigrant and migrant experience through education, advocacy and legal support services.
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Dr. Shushan Karapetian, Deputy Director of the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies. Dr. Karapetian has recently returned from Armenia. She will share her expertise and her on-the-ground knowledge about the situation. She is the host of this podcast about Karabakh / Artsakh – the significance of names.
A Detroit native, visionary storyteller and multiple award-winning filmmaker, Christine Swanson earned her MFA in Film from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, one of the nation’s top-ranked graduate film programs. CNN identified Christine as one of the most promising filmmakers to emerge from NYU’s graduate film program since Martin Scorsese, Ang Lee, Oliver Stone, and Spike Lee (Christine’s NYU directing teacher). Christine also earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame, double majoring in Communications and Japanese.
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