Shasta College presents the Identity Series during the month of October. The series will include interactive presentations about personal identity, topics include Faith, Dyslexia, Inequality, poetry, and embracing and facing our personal identities. Presentations will occur on:
FAITH and IDENTITY
Student Center Stage in the Cafeteria
Thursday October 1, 2015, 12:00-1:30 pm
Lynn E. Fritz: Native American/Minister/Karuk Tribal Descendant— Center for Spiritual Living
Iman Abu Bakr Salahuddin: Islamic Practitioner— Islamic Center of Redding
Chris Carrigan: Buddhist practitioner— River Oak Sangha
Doug Milhous: Quaker— Redding Friends Meeting
DYSLEXIA and IDENTITY
Shasta College Theatre
Tuesday, October 6, 2015, 1:00-3:00 pm
Come see “Journey Into Dyslexia” and participate in a discussion following the film about the topic of Dyslexia.
Lisa Riggs: Counselor— Learning Disabilities
FACING, EMBRACING IDENTITY
Student Center Stage in the Cafeteria
Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 12:00 pm
Kate Ashbey: ECE Faculty— “Making Peace with Your Story”
Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 12:30-1:00 pm
Andrew Mack: Student— “What the Hell is Identity?” Veteran’s Issues
IDENTITY, OUR STORIES and POETRY
Student Center Stage in the Cafeteria
Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 11:00 am-11:30 pm
Heather Wylie: Sociology Instructor— “The Damage of a Single Story”
Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 12:30-1:00 pm
Claudia Mosby: Communications Instructor— “Poetry and Identity”
IDENTITY and INEQUALITY
Student Center Stage in the Cafeteria
Tuesday, October 22, 2015, 12:00-1:00 pm
Marc Dadigan: Multimedia Journalist/Community Educator— “White Privilege, Journalism and Genocide Survivors”
Carrie Jo Diamond: Community Advocate and Executive Director of the NorCal OUTreach Project
LANDSCAPE and IDENTITY
Redding Campus, Room 400
Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 12:30-2:00 pm
Dr. Melinda Kashuba: Geography Instructor
Everyone is invited and cost is free to attend. For more information on individual presentations, see www.shastacollege.edu/Student%20Services/StudentEquity/Pages/Events-Calendar.aspx, call 242.7625, or email equity@shastacollege.edu.
