Diversity Lecture Series
Through the Diversity Lecture Series, Multicultural Affairs is pleased to host a special line up of distinguished lecturers and performers from across the country whose presentations highlight diversity and social justice topics facing today’s world. Events are free and open to the public. The spring Diversity Lecture is a flagship event of the annual UTA Diversity Week celebration held each March. The Diversity Lecture Series is hosted as a result of university President Spaniolo’s response to the report of the Committee on Diversity and International Understanding.
2012-13 Featured Speakers
Additional details coming soon. Check back for updates.
Wed. Nov. 28 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. UC Bluebonnet
Creating an Inclusive, Socially Just Campus Community
Thurs. Nov. 29 10:30 a.m. - Noon, UC Bluebonnet
Professional Development for UTA Faculty/Staff
“Creating Socially Just Inclusive Campus Communities”
Dr. Kathy Obear, President, Alliance For Change Consulting and Founding Faculty of The Social Justice Training Institute
She has over 25 years experience as a trainer and organization development consultant specializing in creating inclusion, team and organizational effictiveness, conflict resolution, and change management. Kathy is a Founding Faculty member of The Social Justice Institute, a five-day intensive professional development program for social justice educators and practitioners focusing on dynamics of race and racism. She has been received the American College Personnel Association Diamond Honoree award for significant contribution to higher education and student affairs work.
Earlier in her career Kathy worked in Student Affairs at several universities before starting her consulting practice in 1987. She has given speeches, facilitated training sessions, and provided consultation services and coaching to top leaders at hundreds of colleges and universities designed to increase the passion, competence, and commitment to create inclusive, socially just campus environments for all members of the campus community. Her diversity articles include “Best Practices that Address Homophobia and Heterosexism in Corporations,” The Diversity Factor, and “Navigating Triggering Events: Critical Skills for Facilitating Difficult Dialogues,” The Diversity Factor. Kathy completed a doctorate in Social Justice Education from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has been a keynote and pre-conference presenter for ACPA, NASPA, and the NASPA Multicultural Institute, among many others.
Fall 2013
Karen A. Myers, PhD is associate professor in the higher education graduate program at Saint Louis University and Director of the Allies for Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit project
Lecture date and topic to be anounced soon
She has been a college teacher and administrator for over 30 years and currently serves on the Directorate of the ACPA Commission on Professional Preparation and is an ACPA Foundation Trustee and Diamond Honoree. As a writer, researcher, consultant and trainer in the area of disability, she received the ACPA Voice of Inclusion Award, Annuit Coeptis Senior Professional Award, Richard Caple Award, Disability Leadership Award and Wise Woman Award. Her latest accomplishment is Allies for Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit, a national traveling exhibit promoting disability education and awareness.
In addition to classroom teaching with focus on student personnel administration, student development theory, communication skills and college teaching strategies, she facilitates online courses in disability including her self-designed hybrid course, Disability in Higher Education and Society. Karen is an education columnist for Dialogue, a bi-monthly publication from Blindskills, Inc. for people with visual disabilities. She is the author of three books, College Students with Visual Disabilities: Preferences for Effective Interaction (a study of 35 college students with visual disabilities and their communication preferences), The Way I See It: Bumping into Life with Low Vision (a humorous glimpse into her own life) and The Glass Diary (conversations Megan, a young girl with low vision, had with her mirror -- her "glass diary"). In addition to authoring and co-authoring numerous articles and book chapters, Karen is a researcher, consultant and trainer in the area of disability and Universal Instructional Design.
Date TBD
Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington serves as the President and Founder of the Washington Consulting Group, a Multicultural Organizational Development Firm based in Baltimore, MD
Lecture date and topic to be anounced soon
Dr. Washington has served as an educator and administrator in higher education for over 20 years. He most recently served as the Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He has been an instructor in Sociology, American Studies and Education, and an Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at UMBC. Dr. Washington earned his B.S. degree in Therapeutic Recreation and Music from Slippery Rock State College, and a double Masters’ degree from Indiana University/Bloomington in Higher Education Administration and Counseling, with a concentration in Human Sexuality. He holds a Ph.D. is in College Student Development, with a concentration in Multicultural Education from the University of Maryland College Park. Dr. Washington completed his Master of Divinity program at Howard University School of Divinity.
Dr. Washington is a founding faculty member of the Social Justice Training Institute. Dr. Washington has held leadership positions in ACPA, NASPA, ACHUO-I, MACUHO, MCPA, APA, NGLTF, The Campaign to End Homophobia and the National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum. Dr. Washington is a Lead faculty member with the LeaderShape Institute and the National Certified Student Leader Program, a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, Golden Key, Alpha Phi Omega, Phi Delta Kappa, education Honorary, and a Life member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated. He has over 30 years of experience in music ministry, is an ordained minister and currently serves as an Associate Minister at Unity Fellowship Church of Baltimore.
Jamie Washington has authored and co-authored several books chapters and articles. His most recent work is featured in African American Men in College; and Lessons from the Road, an inspirational book on leadership and life. He’s currently working on his first Book: Reconciliation; Black, Christian and Gay, The Journey to Wholeness. Some of Jamie’s honors include a Mayoral Citation as one of Baltimore’s Men of the Year, the 2001 American College Personnel Association Diamond Honoree award for significant contribution to higher education and student affairs work, and a 2002 Voices of Inclusion Award for his work in the area of social justice education. He received the 2007 Pillars of the Profession Award from the National Student Personnel Association. Jamie was named one of the nation’s twenty five best educators on LGBT issues by Campus Pride in 2010.
Past Diversity Lecture Series events
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 March 3, 2010 Dr. Maura Cullen, social justice educator and author “Dumb Things Well Intended People Say” |
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