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On behalf of the Olympic College Diversity Advisory Council and the Conference Planning Committee, welcome to the 2017 Diversity Conference: Passion Persistence Possibilites. We are pleased that you are joining us for this conference as we come together to learn, to network, and to enhance our skills in the areas of multiculturalism and social justice.

The conference agenda provides many opportunities for you to hear from local and national experts on topics related to diversity including privilege, communication, diversity in the workplace, and the arts. With the rapidly changing demographics in our area, it is crucial for all of us to have information covering a broad range of topics to help us build community and promote equity and social justice.

We encourage you to meet and talk with each other throughout the conference. We hope you enjoy your stay in Bremerton and on our campus as you participate in our fourth annual event.

Sincerely,

Welcome! Bienvenidos! Aloha!

Conference Planning Committee

Shaylynn Houston

Debra Montez

Cheryl Nunez

TeresaJones

NicShakley

AmandaGebhardt-Fuentes

JamesEstrella

DamonBell

JudieJose

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Conference Schedule

7:30 - 8:30 Registration/Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 8:45 Welcome and Introductions

8:45 - 10:00 Opening Keynote: Gyasi Ross

10:00 - 10:30 Transition and Refreshments

10:30 - 12:00 Concurrent Sessions

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Buffet and Networking




5:00 DinnerEvening Keynote: Climbing PoeTree

7:30 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast




NOON Closing ActivitiesBox Lunches

THURSDAY, JUNE 22

FRIDAY, JUNE 23

“If you are always trying to be NORMAL, you will never know how AMAZING you can be.” Maya Angelou

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Education & Skills Development

Identity & Personal Development

Arts and Education

Leadership Development

Social Justice & Activism

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Daily ScheduleThursday, June 22

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HSS 119 & HSS 121

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HSS 209

Transition and Refreshments10:00- 10:30

HSS 119 & HSS 121Transition and Refreshments2:45 - 3:15

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BSCLunch: Buffet and Networking

Upward Mobility for African American Women

HSS 209Canceled - It’s A Mixed Bag Today - Canceled

HSS 108Pipelines & Pathways: Creating a Program to Increase theNumber of African American Males in STEM Fields

HSS 209

HSS 211 Racism and Reconciliation

Teaching the Art of Diversity and Social Justice

12:00 - 1:00

Session 110:30 - 12:00

Welcome and Introductions BSC8:30 - 8:45

Session 21:15 - 2:45

Session 33:15 - 4:45

Cultural AncestorsHSS 125

Art is a Hammer: Reshaping Reality through Cultural Activism

HSS 125

Student Safety, On and Off Campus

HSS 112

HSS 108

DinnerEvening Keynote: Climbing PoeTree

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Inside the Academic Hiring Process - You don’t hearback? So Now What?

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HSS 125

HSS 112

Turning Slacktivism into Activism

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Sexual Assault: Not Our School!

HSS 108

Same Ethnicity, Different Names

Authenticity and Vulnerability in Facilitation

Strategies For Building Equity Through the LearningProcess

HSS 211

Creating a Movement

Human Library HSS 112

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Linking Social Justice Education to Professional Practice HSS 108

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Is There a Difference Between Cultural EmotionalIntellegence and Emotional Intelligence?

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HSS 209The Power of Dialogue: Learning through MeaningfulIntergroup Communication

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The ComPassionate Possibilites of Persistent Awareness in Reading Your Beads!

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HSS 211 Libraries as a Nexus of Activism

An Equity Framework for Educational Excellence: What’sRace Got to Do with it?

“The Non-Problem of Non-Tenured Faculty”

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Survival Art: Creating Codes for Survival

KEYNOTE SPEAKERSOpening Keynote (Thursday, June 22nd)

Gyasi Ross

How the art of storytelling is within everyone and is an important tool to aid us in the current climate as well as in securing a just future.

BIOGRAPHY

Gyasi Ross is an author, speaker and storyteller. Gyasi comes from the Blackfeet Nation and resides on the Port Madison Indian Reservation near Seattle. TV and radio programs and print and online publications regularly seek his input on politics, sports, pop culture and the intersections thereof with Native life.

Ross is the author of Don’t Know Much About Indians (but I wrote a book about us anyways) (2011) and How to Say I Love You in Indian (2014). “I come from a family of storytellers. My family tells long stories, drinking coffee and blowing smoke in your face. It just fit for me to tell stories, and then I started writing them.” He is in demand as a speaker on race, social justice and white privilege as well as issues specifically affecting contemporary Native Americans and guests on MSNBC, ESPN, Democracy Now and radio shows nationwide. Ross writes for the Huffington Post, Indian Country Today, Deadspin and Gawker. Ross has also released a spoken word/hip hop CD titled “Isskootsik (Before Here was Here)” on Cabin Games Records.

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Creativity is the Antidote to Destruction

Evening Keynote (Thursday, June 23rd)

Climbing PoeTree

Performance activists and cultural architects Alixa and Naima of Climbing PoeTree, explore the inescapable network of mutuality that binds our existence through the ricochet of oppression and the reciprocity of liberation. Their art is a tool for catalyzing action, cross pollinating solutions, getting at the root of our most pressing social and ecological issues, and reminding us that we all belong to each other.

BIOGRAPHY

Over the last 13 years, Climbing PoeTree has infused our movements for justice with healing and imagination, inspiring thousands through their award-winning multimedia theater, dual-voice spoken word, visual art, sustainable touring, and community organizing. Co-creators Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman are cultural architects committed to reframing the story through multi-voice spoken word, hip hop, world music, and multimedia theater that translate deep research around the most pressing issues of our time into stunning artistry that catalyzes their audiences to activate the transformation they wish to cultivate within themselves and their communities.

Alixa and Naima have independently organized 30 national and international tours, taking their work from South Africa to Cuba, the UK to Mexico, and throughout the U.S. including 11,000 miles toured on a bus converted to run on recycled vegetable oil. Climbing PoeTree has been experienced at diverse venues from the Brooklyn Academy of Music to the United Nations, Harvard University to Rikers Island Prison.

They have been featured alongside powerhouses such as Alice Walker, Danny Glover, Cornel West, Alicia Keys, Erykah Badu, Little Dragon, Naomi Klein, and Angela Davis, who remarked, “Each time I have the pleasure of attending a performance by Climbing PoeTree, I feel enriched, renewed, and inspired. Alixa and Naima insist that poetry can change the world — and it is true that the urgency, power and beauty of their words impel us to keep striving for the radical futures toward which they gesture.”

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Session 1 (Thursday 10:30 am - 12:00 pm) (HSS 108)

Session 2 (Thursday 1:15 pm - 2:45 pm) (HSS 108)

Sexual Assault: Not in Our School!Grachelle LaboneteSexual Harassment: Not in Our School! examines students’ rights to an education free from sex discrimination. Featuring nationally recognized legal and education experts, counselors, advocates, parents, students, and teen activists, it discusses student rights under Title IX and LGBTQ rights in schools, and urges communities to improve gender equality and safety by ending sexual harassment, assault, and violence. Though the material’s focus is on K-12 schools, it tackles the pressing issues that lead to college campus attitudes surrounding sexual discrimination.

Grachelle is a 19 year old student in her first year at Olympic College and an advisory board member of the national nonprofit, Stop Sexual Assault in Schools. She is currently pursing a nursing degree in the hopes of becoming a sexual assault nurse examiner. She is passionate about protecting all students from the horrors of sexual assault, harassment, and violence.

EDUCATION & SKILLS DEVELOPMENT TRACK

Education and Skills Development—K-12, higher education, classroom activities, multiculturalism in the classroom, innovations and best practices for diversity-focused curriculum development.

Safety for everyone is key. The presentation will cover what to do if you are sexually assaulted on or off campus as well as knowing the signs of Domestic Violence (DV). I will cover perceptions and statistics, great ways to help someone in need as well as ways to break the stigma that surrounds the term “Victim”. The goal is to create individuals who are aware of what is going on around them, give them tools to help themselves as well as others, and speak out against assault and DV.

Christina is a college student who is currently working on getting her AA focused on Journalism. She loves to write and is interested in how media works. She’s leaning towards science journalism, specifically writing about Astronomy and Biology. In her free time she paints and makes little jewelry trinkets.

Christina Lamoureux

Student Safety, On and Off Campus

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them thefirst time.”

Maya Angelou

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Pipelines & Pathways: Creating a Program to Increase the Number of African American Males in STEM Fields

Osaro AirenThe presenter was tasked with creating a program aimed at increasing the academic success of African American Males through increased access to STEM programs at Cedar Valley College. With the assistance of a grant awarded to the college by the U.S.Department of Education Predominantly Black Institutions (PBI) program, the Pipelines & Pathways (P2)program has begun implementation.

The presentation will focus on various aspects of the P2 Program such as the Pipelines and Pathways STEM Boot Camp and student recruitment as well as the important hires of faculty, instructional specialists, tutors, and mentors which have been critical to the success of the program. In addition, the presentation will illustrate the collaborative steps taken to create the first-ever off-campus internship program at Cedar Valley College (CVC), the Pipeline & Pathways (P2) Internship Program. The Pipelines & Pathways Program and Cedar Valley College’s Career Services and Automotive Technology Department worked tirelessly to develop an internship program that not only provided workforce experience for CVC students, but full-time employment for the students following the internship.

Dr. Osaro E. Airen joined Cedar Valley College in February 2016 as the Dean of Student Retention and PBI Administrator. Dr. Airen is responsible for planning, managing, and directing administrative activities related to student retention programs and services. In addition, he is the administrator of a $2.45 million grant awarded to Cedar Valley College by the U. S. Department of Education’s Predominantly Black Institutions (PBI) program. The focus of the grant, referred to as the Pipeline and Pathways (P2) program, is to increase the academic success of African American Males through increased access to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) programs at the College.

Prior to joining Cedar Valley College, Dr. Airen served as the Director of Multicultural Affairs at Stephen F. Austin State University and Wayne State College. Earlier in his career, he held administrative and teaching positions at several institutions such as the City College of New York, West Chester University, and Saint Vincent College. Over the course of Dr. Airen’s career, he has also taught psychology and student affairs graduate degree courses; served on thesis and dissertation committees; and has developed multicultural programming and culturally responsive opportunities designed to support student learning and development.

Dr. Airen holds a doctorate in Counselor Education from Virginia Tech; a Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Southern California; a Master’s in Business Administration from Wayne State College; and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of California, Riverside. In addition, Dr. Airen is a licensed professional counselor and national certified counselor.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”

Aristotle

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Session 4 (Friday 8:30 am - 10:00 am) (HSS 108)

Human Services education and practice has often claimed that we are the embodiment of social justice in professional practice and through our education programs. What evidence do we, as educators, have to make this type of claim? Understanding the link between the human services professional ethical standards and the ability for BA level human services programs to infuse social justice across their curriculum is the focus of this session. In this workshop participants are provided with an opportunity to assess how social justice is currently infused in their classes and to learn how human service education can ground itself in the social justice dispositions embedded in human services professional ethical standards.

Dr. Trula Nicholas is an Associate Professor in the Human Services Program at Western Washington University. She has worked in human services and teaching during most of her professional life. Her line of research includes community-university partnerships, strengthening the nonprofit sector, and active engagement in diversity and social justice issues.

Linking Social Justice Education to Professional Practice

Trula Nicholas

Session 5 (Friday 10:30 am - 12:00 pm) (HSS 108)The Roots Among the Rocks - Teaching Difficult Topics in Difficult Times

Roberta KowaldGun Control! Walls! Sweatshops! Syria! Diversity! LGBT rights! Racism! DAPL! What do you mean I can’t buy bananas anymore? Talking today about almost anything in our classrooms can feel as if we’re walking into a very dark place - so how do we talk about those “uncomfortable” topics in our classes without losing our minds (or our jobs?). In this interactive workshop we’ll talk about those times when things went well and when they went...not so well and learn new techniques to talk about the things we don’t always want to talk about.

A 2016 Evergreen State College Teacher of Excellence, and a consistently popular professor with students, Roberta Kowald brings her experience over forty years dealing with the “difficult” as not only an instructor in Sociology and Criminal Justice but as a published writer and poet; a defense attorney; a community organizer and policy adviser to dozens of groups and organizations - always talking about the things we often don’t want to talk about.

“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.”

Kofi Annan

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Same Ethnicity, Different Names

Shirley SiloiImagine how it would feel to be called the wrong name every day for a month. Now, layer that with being called someone else’s name because you were both the same ethnicity. In this workshop, we will examine and dialogue about the emotional and mental effects of being continuously called someone else’s name just because you share the same ethnic background. How do these microaggressions manifest in K-12 classrooms, higher education settings and other professional environments, and what needs to be done to educate the agent and empower the target?

Talofa lava! My name is Shirley Siloi, and I am the eldest and only daughter to Tony and Diana Siloi. My father is from the village of Amouli, American Samoa and my mother is from the Tarrant family of Utulei, American Samoa. As a first-generation college student and graduate, education has been transformative in my life. I choose to do this work every day because it is vital we engage our communities and connect each other to resources.

IDENTITY & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT TRACK

Racial/ethnic identity, LGBTQ, personal cultural assessments, culture shock and the impact of immigration, assimilation & acculturation, adoption, multiple identities & intersectionality.



Upward Mobility for African American Women

Shaylynn Houston

Using Critical Race and Feminist theories, the facilitators will explore the historical, generational and systemic factors that have had an impact on African American Women’s mobility in higher education and the workforce in today’s society.

Shaylynn Houston proudly works for Seattle Goodwill as a Case Manager, Instructor and Equity Team member. Seattle Goodwill is located in the heart of the community were Shaylynn was born and raised. Shaylynn graduated from Bremerton High School and is an active Olympic College graduate who volunteers and utilizes her Alumni status to uplift Diversity and Equity throughout the campus, her workplace and community. As a well-known volunteer in the community she has shared her volunteerism in many ways including 2 years of AmeriCorps service, 3 years at Partnering for Youth Achievement and has attended, chaperoned and presented at the WA State Students of Color conferences for the past 9 years.

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Nic Shakley

Human Library


The art of finding just the right reference or story has gone away as technology took over data management. In the past, often times you would draw a card, with descriptors of the book, and based on those words you would have to make a snap decisions as to whether that book is right for you, long before you even see the cover. In this workshop we encourage those pop-ups to happen. Each card describes a person. You will be able to ‘check out’ some time with a person, and get to know their story. Just remember, don’t judge a book by its cover.

Nic started as an undecided student nearly three years ago. With their interest in campus life, and drive to help raise members of the queer community, they went from being an officer of the Gay Straight Alliance, to becoming an elected official with the Student Government of Olympic College. This is their last year in the role, and their sights are already aimed to improving the queer community in Kitsap as a whole.

“When nothing is sure, everything is possible.”Margaret Drabble

Is There A Difference Between Cultural Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence?

Melody ChannellThere are many topics that are covered within the realm of Cultural Diversity. During our time together, we will focus on the increasing need for Cultural Emotional Intelligence. Emotional Intelligence provides us with the tools to be aware of the ways we respond in different settings. We use tools like self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. Although these words may be universal, the ways they are displayed in different cultural settings maybe very different. First we will review Emotional Intelligence and then look at the ways that understanding different cultures can enhance our awareness.

Melody Channell was hired as a part-time Educational Advisor in the Advising and Counseling Department. She earned a Master’s in Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy. She has recently opened a Marriage and Family Therapy office part-time. Over the past thirty years she has worked as a Dental Hygienist and enjoys helping out in offices across the Puget Sound in her free time. She enjoys working with students and helping people find hope and pathways through challenging times.

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The ComPassionate Possibilities of Persistent Awareness in Reading Your Beads!

How is privilege determined and measured? These are big questions. Privilege moves and shifts; it’s often situational and can be invisible unless it’s named. In this thoughtful and interactive session, we’ll explore how privilege impacts and shapes our world experience. Through creating a colorful “bead necklace of identities,” we will engage and awaken awareness of our relationship to privilege. The impact of this process extends beyond the session and can serve as a compassionate tool in our daily lives. Come open to experience new possibilities for courageous dialogue, to build meaningful connections and have some fun, too!

Barbie-Danielle DeCarlo is a community educator and facilitator who draws on mindfulness practice and uses creative media to engage transformative change worldwide. For nearly three decades her leadership has been invigorated by diverse global experiences and education. She is co-producer of Color Commentary at KSER radio in Everett, WA and serves as Program Manager for Equity and Inclusion at Edmonds Community College. Sweet spots are global music and the arts.

Allison Cohen has twenty years of experience in social justice education. She is passionate about undoing systems of oppression and working in community to create a loving, equitable, and abundant world. She currently serves as Dean of Pre-College Education at Edmonds Community College and is a splendid Argentine Tango dancer, both lead and follow.

Barbie-Danielle DeCarloCo-Presentor Allison Cohen

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Socrates

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Authenticity and Vulnerability in Facilitation

Teaching the Art of Diversity and Social Justice

Airen Lydick

James Estrella, Erin Douglas, Michael Laughlin

Liberation work often happens in groups. Yet, what attention do we give our facilitation of these groups? If we inadvertently run our groups in ways that replicate the systemic problems we seek to address, we miss opportunities to steward our movements with greater integrity and joy. This workshop will explore facilitating groups with authenticity and vulnerability, asking participants to move away from pursuing perfectionism and control and to instead center creativity, witnessing, and liberation We’ll explore themes of honoring intersectionality, building trust, naming and challenging microaggressions, and uncovering implicit bias.

Airen’s earliest organizing was as a kid in rural Nebraska, with family during the 1980s farm crisis. His newest organizing is here in Kitsap County, as part of a growing chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), moving white people to undermine white supremacy culture and to join the fight for racial justice. Airen believes that our stories can expose and challenge systems of dominance and oppression. So, he facilitates and cooks for people, two things that seem to make it easier for them to tell their stories.

This workshop addresses some of the challenges faced in diversity and social justice education, and how creative and arts-based pedagogy can be used to cultivate student learning and empowerment. How can the sustained study and practice of the literary and visual arts help to address the many dimensions and complexities of diversity and social justice? Artistry is used to demonstrate how these two concepts are inextricably bound together. Without valuing differences among social groups, there cannot be an effective means to address issues of inequity and injustice. Without addressing injustice and the principles of equity, we cannot value diversity. Original student work will be presented.

Professors Estrella, Douglas, and Laughlin are all instructors at OC who come form diverse scholarly backgrounds. While each approaches their classes from a different cultural and analytic lens, they all appreciate the value of challenging students pre-conceived notions about their identity in a broader social, historical, and cultural context. We hope the insights that we have developed from these classroom experiences will have value to community stakeholders in other fields.



ART & EDUCATION TRACK

Multiculturalism displayed through music, dance, poetry, prose, studio art, etc.; using art forms for teaching and community building.

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How can art be fashioned as a tool at the service of our vision for a more just, peaceful and livable world? This interactive workshop presentation combines performance, story-telling, video, and embodied activities to illuminate the powerful symbiosis between art and activism. “Art is Our Weapon, Our Medicine, Our Voice, and Our Vision:” Using their motto as a guide, Alixa and Naima share tactics and strategies from their walks of life as cultural workers, illuminating how poetry, media-making, creative interventions and collaborative public art can be used to strengthen our movements for social and environmental justice. Participants will have the opportunity to share examples of arts activism from their own experiences and communities, and should be prepared to get creative, imaginative, and inspired!

Over the last 13 years, Climbing PoeTree has infused our movements for justice with healing and imagination, inspiring thousands through their award-winning multimedia theater, dual-voice spoken word, visual art, sustainable touring, and community organizing.

Co-creators Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman are cultural architects committed to reframing the story through multi-voice spoken word, hip hop, world music, and multimedia theater that translate deep research around the most pressing issues of our time into stunning artistry that catalyzes their audiences to activate the transformation they wish to cultivate within themselves and their communities.

Alixa and Naima have independently organized 30 national and international tours, taking their work from South Africa to Cuba, the UK to Mexico, and throughout the U.S. including 11,000 miles toured on a bus converted to run on recycled vegetable oil. Climbing PoeTree has been experienced at diverse venues from the Brooklyn Academy of Music to the United Nations, Harvard University to Rikers Island Prison.

They have been featured alongside powerhouses such as Alice Walker, Danny Glover, Cornel West, Alicia Keys, Erykah Badu, Little Dragon, Naomi Klein, and Angela Davis, who remarked, “Each time I have the pleasure of attending a performance by Climbing PoeTree, I feel enriched, renewed, and inspired. Alixa and Naima insist that poetry can change the world — and it is true that the urgency, power and beauty of their words impel us to keep striving for the radical futures toward which they gesture.”

Climbing PoeTree

Art is a Hammer: Reshaping Reality through Cultural Activism


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Session 5 (Friday 10:30 am - 12:00 pm) (HSS 125)

Learn tips, tricks and techniques to make your online Canvas courses more effective for ALL your students!

Kelley has been an online educator in Washington State since 1999, currently still teaching online courses while also working as an eLearning Coordinator and Canvas Community Coach. She is a member of the WA State Board for Community and Technical College’s eLearning Council, and a member of their Accessibility Work Group. She has a strong interest in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and online accessibility. She also teaches UDL in Canvas to faculty at Clover Park, and around the world through the Canvas Community.

Kelley Meeusen

UDL Practices in Canvas Classrooms

Drag 101

Nikolai KnightWith ‘Drag’ being brought into the public eye through shows like ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’, more and more people are looking for a chance to learn more, or be exposed to more. In this presentation, we will go through some of the roots and history of Drag and how diverse of a scene that has become. We will also explore proper audience etiquette, and how people may become involved in the local drag and queer community.

Nikolai Knight is a King performer who started off performing at the 1st drag show hosted at Olympic College. Due to low turnouts in auditions, they gave it a try and now they are hooked. They are a founder with Queerly Beloved, and they host regular shows in Kitsap County. Their goal is to create space, on and off stage where people feel like they can safely be themselves.


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Inside the Academic Hiring Process - You Didn’t Hear Back? So Now What?

Strategies For Building Equity Through the Learning Process

Katherine Kameron

Courtney Plotts

This presentation will focus on tips for first time applicants and college employees with a goal towards moving through the process. Information will be shared about structuring your resume for academia vs. private sector and the fiscal year and how it effects hiring. How to understand which college divisions are a best fit for your skillset. What to include in your cover letter? How long should it be? If you attended a foreign university, what do you need to do and why? Networking within the college system. Free events you can attend. Should you include a list of trainings? Why or why not? What is the function of HR vs. the hiring manager. Best websites and how to use them. During the presentation I will provide a mock application, resume and cover letter, have a short breakout session for groups to find ways to improve the submission.

Katherine Kameron is a Human Resources Generalist at Cascadia. She is heavily involved in the full-cycle recruitment process at Cascadia College. She is also involved in Title IX investigations at the College. Katherine received her undergraduate degree from University of Washington, Seattle, and her law degree from Seattle University School of Law.

This interactive presentation will explore the latest research in acculturation, diversity, and learning. Participants will have opportunities to identify, experience, share, and build strategies that increase pathways to inclusion and learning gains in the classroom and workplace experiences.

Dynamic Speaker and Trainer Courtney Plotts grew up in an emotionally, physically, and cognitively challenging household. After being sexually assaulted at age 11 and being incarcerated by the age of 13, Plotts was on a path of life destruction. She had a learning disability, which further complicated her academic success. Plotts graduated high school after two years of summer school. Though she still faced educational and personal barriers, with the help of educational professionals like yourself, she persevered and earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and master’s degrees in education and psychology. She is currently completing a doctorate in psychology (African American and Latino/a Perspectives of Online Social Presence: A Multiple Case Study). She also was Director of Academic Achievement & Faculty Development of GSC Education Group, LLC. In addition Courtney has taught undergraduate and graduate education and psychology courses, most recently at Delaware State University. Currently, she is the National Chair For The Council of At Risk Student Education and Professional Standards www.uscaseps.org.



LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TRACK

Diversity in organizations, leadership in multicultural environments, enhancing workforce diversity, conflict management, organizational culture, creating a safe work environment.

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It’s A Mixed Bag Today

Alisa HenleyIn this workshop, we will examine the outlook for the modern workplace and for the next five years, as well as four key trends associated with managing 5 generations in the workplace. As these trends play out, we need to consider how to implement a culture change in our organizations and identify some of the challenges these changes will bring.

Alisa J. Henley, PHR brings over 20 years of expertise in diversity, equity, leadership development and organizational development. She has delivered keynote addresses and or facilitated diversity training for University of MO-Kansas City, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Neighborhood Reinvestment, City of Kansas City, MO, Benedictine University, DeVry University, Kansas City MO School District, and many other organizations. Alisa is currently pursuing a PhD in Industrial Psychology (Organizational Development). Alisa has authored 4 books and started two consulting businesses (www.destinyconsulting.net and www.u-shine.org).


The Power of Dialogue: Learning through Meaningful Intergroup CommunicationJames Estrella, Erin Douglas, Nick SchuurEven before former President Barack Obama set soaring expectations for an era of improved race relations, college students across the nation had been participating in facilitated dialogues across racial and other social group boundaries. However, bringing students together to talk with one another across boundaries around issues of diversity can be a complex and challenging endeavor. Educators who have participated in or organized dialogue programs have learned valuable lessons about what may facilitate productive dialogues. What are those lessons and how can they be implemented for the benefit of student learning and empowerment? This workshop introduces a strategy in diversity and social justice education known as “Intergroup Dialogue,” and how it is currently being implemented as a learning tool at Olympic College. Participants will also actively engage in and reflect on the process of an Intergroup Dialogue experience.

Professors Douglas, Estrella, and Schuur are all new instructors at OC who come form diverse scholarly backgrounds. While each approaches their classes from a different cultural and analytic lens, they all appreciate the value of challenging students pre-conceived notions about their identity in a broader social, historical, and cultural context. We hope the insights that we have developed from these classroom experiences will have value to community stakeholders in other fields.


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An Equity Framework for Educational Excellence: What’s Race Got to Do with It?

Cheryl NunezWe will examine the guiding principles, concepts and practices that define an equity-based approach to strengthening educational outcomes. The workshop will use a critical race perspective to analyze the structural foundations of the Opportunity Gap and the language, beliefs, and practices that perpetuate it. Participants will use an anti-racist framework to reimagine the institutional alignment of people, policies, and processes that are necessary to foster inclusive excellence.

Cheryl Nuñez is Vice President for Equity & Inclusion at Olympic College, where she oversees the Communications & Web Services Department and serves as the Title IX Coordinator. In her role as the Chief Equity Officer, she is leading the implementation of the College’s inaugural Equity & Inclusion Plan, designed to close gaps in student success and achievement. Prior to joining OC in June of 2015, she served for 8 years as the Vice Provost for Diversity at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio and for 9 years as the Director of Affirmative Action and Multicultural Affairs at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, Kentucky. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University and a master’s degree in Educational Foundations from the University of Cincinnati. She is an experienced community organizer and equity consultant.

Session 5 (Friday 10:30 am to 12:00 pm) (HSS 209)

“Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they will become your habits. Acknowledged and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.” Mahatma Gandhi

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Turning Slacktivism into ActivismRoberta Kowald

SOCIAL JUSTICE & ACTIVISM TRACK

Advocacy, policy change, equity, “ism” (e.g., sexism, ageism, heterosexism, etc.), social action, community engagement, stereotype threat.

Once upon a time it was mimeographed flyers and word-of-mouth; protests, “sit -ins” and “Occupy”. But times have changed. How can we harness the power of social media to do good? Designed for both students and young people as well as the adults who work with them - we’ll explore new ways to reach young people and ways to get them involved in being the change they want to see in the world.

A 2016 Evergreen College Teacher of Excellence and a consistently popular professor at Olympic College prior to joining the OC faculty Roberta Kowald spent many years as a field organizer and policy adviser for the Hilltop Action Coalition; People United for Smoke-Free Housing and the Tacoma-Pierce County Cross-Cultural Collaborative. She served for several years on the Board of Directors of OUT-Kitsap. Her work has been recognized by the Washington State Department of Health, the Regional Chapter of the NAACP and the Hispanic Action Coalition of Pierce County.

Creating a Movement

Gyasi RossEstablishing the steps in creating a powerful and effective social justice movement.

Gyasi Ross is an author, speaker and storyteller. Gyasi comes from the Blackfeet Nation and resides on the Port Madison Indian Reservation near Seattle. TV and radio programs and print and online publications regularly seek his input on politics, sports, pop culture and the intersections thereof with Native life.

Ross is the author of Don’t Know Much About Indians (but I wrote a book about us anyways) (2011) and How to Say I Love You in Indian (2014). “I come from a family of storytellers. My family tells long stories, drinking coffee and blowing smoke in your face. It just fit for me to tell stories, and then I started writing them.” He is in demand as a speaker on race, social justice and white privilege as well as issues specifically affecting contemporary Native Americans and guests on MSNBC, ESPN, Democracy Now and radio shows nationwide. Ross writes for the Huffington Post, Indian Country Today, Deadspin and Gawker. Ross has also released a spoken word/hip hop CD titled “Isskootsik (Before Here was Here)” on Cabin Games Records.

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Session 4 (Friday 8:30 am - 10:00 am) (HSS 211)Libraries as a Nexus of Activism

Emma GoldLibraries represent a unique space and opportunity for community organization and activism; they are one of the last remaining non-commodified, intentionally public spaces. In addition to traditional activism, libraries also invite both patrons and staff to regularly engage in “passive activism” and support their community’s social justice goals. This presentation will explore the library as a nexus of both traditional and ‘passive’ activism for library users, community members, and personnel.

Emma has been a resident of the Kitsap area all her life and has worked at the Kitsap Regional Library for over three years. She views her work with the public and the space provided by the library as inherently activistic. Emma hopes to continue working in the Kitsap community and supporting marginalized populations for many years to come.

Session 3 (Thursday 3:15 pm - 4:45 pm) (HSS 211)Racism and Reconciliation

This workshop demonstrates the need for coalitions in challenging discrimination. It explores the history of civil and human rights coalitions from the nineteenth-century including the American Recolonization Society, the women’s suffrage movement and the various abolitionist movements. It also examines the various coalitions of the twentieth century, beginning with the National Negro Conference of 1909, the NAACP and the various civil rights movements of the late twentieth century. The presentation also discusses those movements that lacked cohesiveness in message and purpose precipitating their failure to produce the desired outcomes.

Ms. Phillips is currently an Adjunct History Instructor. She has nearly a decade of experience teaching cultural diversity and related subjects, including philosophy and political science at other area colleges. Ms. Phillips also served as an administrator of social justice programs, including the James Washington Foundation. She also served as Director of Multicultural Services and Outreach at a local community college. She holds degrees in history, counseling and political science.

Pamela Phillips

Session 5 (Friday 10:30 am - 12:00 pm) (HSS 211)

“The Non-Problem of Non-Tenured Faculty”Jack LongmateDr. Keith HoellerThis presentation describes the “dirty little secret” of U.S. higher education: the reliance on non-tenured faculty over the last 45 years in the United States. Despite holding equal credentials, and awarding the same credits and grades, as tenured faculty, their substandard treatment stands in violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Most people in the higher education establishment do not consider the system’s dependence on non-tenured faculty as a non-issue.

Jack Longmate is a proponent of the Vancouver Model, where non-tenured faculty enjoy equal pay, equal work, job security, and professional dignity. He co-authored the Program for Change,a strategic plan aimed at transforming the bifurcated two-tier faculty labor system that predominates U.S. higher education into a single tier.

Dr. Keith Hoeller is a nationally recognized author on advocacy for non-tenured faculty. He co-founded the Washington Part-time Faculty Association and instigated the two class action lawsuits that secured retirement and health care for adjuncts in Washington State.

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The Diversity Advisory Council supports the Olympic College community by creating an inclusive and welcoming environment where diversity is an asset, equity is the ideal, and commitment to growth is genuine.

The Diversity Advisory Council is a college-wide advisory board to the President’s Cabinet and the President of Olympic College on matters pertaining to diversity. The Diversity Advisory Council provides leadership by:

www.olympic.edu/diversity

The Diversity Advisory Council links individuals responsible for diversity-related efforts to further the college’s interest in supporting and promoting diversity and equal opportunity. Teamwork, furthering collaboration among employees and departments, and developing and prioritizing diversity initiatives are key charges of the Council.

If you would like to connect with the Diversity Advisory Council, please email [email protected]

• Providing recommendations related to the College’s climate, policies, procedures, services, programs, and curriculum.

• Identifying and promoting the academic and support needs of historically underrepresented and underserved populations.

• Developing and supporting training and programs related to diversity, intercultural competence, and inclusion.

• Serving as a resource for our diverse communities and the College.

• Engaging in self-assessment (individual and organizational) to promote growth toward achieving a culture of inclusion.

Conference Sponsors

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Conference Sponsors

The Olympic College Foundation is honored to be a sponsor of the 2017 Diversity Conference. The Olympic College Foundation was established in 1993 to promote and receive philanthropic gifts for the benefit of Olympic College students. The Foundation seeks philanthropic gifts for student scholarships, program enhancements, capital projects, as well as cultural events and activities that enrich the entire college community. By securing contributions, the Foundation provides that extra measure of support that contributes to excellence at Olympic College.

Sponsoring programs like the Diversity Conference, as well as education scholarships, faculty projects, and campus enhancements are all ways that the Olympic College Foundation is enabling Olympic College to be an educational leader for our community.

Foundation

Dr. David Mitchell, Olympic College President, approved generous financial support for numerous scholarships to ensure that students can attend this conference. The Conference Planning Committee wishes to thank Dr. Mitchell for his contributions to the success of this event.

Dr. David Mitchell

Queerly Beloved is a local organization dedicated to equitable access to success for LGBTQ+ People in Kitsap County. We promote and en-courage spaces of self-expression and identity.

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While you’re here...

Local Restaurants

El BalconBustling, counter-serve, family-owned nook with pupusas, burritos & other Mexican & Salvadoran grub.

326 Pacific Ave, Bremerton, WA360.813.1617

Fritz European Fry HouseFast food–style spot known for its Belgian fries with dipping sauces, burgers & waffle sticks.

94 Washington Ave, Bremerton, WA360.479.1088

SabaideeTry something new for your lunch or dinner at Sabaidee Thai Cuisine. Enjoy a cozy intimate dining experience on a romantic date, or with friends and family.

853 6th St, Bremerton, WA360.792.2222

Hi-Lo’s 15th Street CafeEarthy corner cafe serving all-American breakfast & lunch fare with no frills & lots of coffee.

2720 15th Street, Bremerton, WA360.373.7833

La FermataNothern Italian dining with a Northwest Twist. Food made with love.

2204 E 11th St, Bremerton, WA 360.373.5927

To get the most out of your stay while you attend the conference, visit some of these local attractions. Enjoy what Bremerton and the greater area have to offer. There is a little bit of everything ranging from restaurants, specialty shops, and landmark sites.

Saboteur BakeryHip, buzzy outpost with an industrial-chic seating area selling artisanal pastries, breads & coffee..2110 E 11th St Bremerton, WA360.627.7869

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Things to see and do

Honey Hill FarmsLocated between Illahee and Gilberton, Honeyhill Farm has been providing local raw honey since 1999 to the Kitsap County area. Honey is seasonal so call for availability as our product is limited. They also have Llama and Alpaca wool available.

7545 Grahns Lane NE, Bremerton, WA 360-613-0175

Bremerton Harborside Boardwalk2 acres and 840 linear feet of shoreline with park benches, restroom and water fountain. Stroll the boardwalk and take in the views of the USS Turner Joy, the ferries and the busy waterfront. Bremerton Boardwalk The “HEART OF DOWNTOWN”. 2nd Street and Washington Bremerton, WA360.473.5305

Elandan GardensGarden shop and more along with nationally renowned Bonsai collection and the contemporary sculpture garden. NW Flower & Garden Show award winners. Fee for bonsai gardens (museum).

3050 State Highway 16 W, Bremerton, WA 360-373-8260www.elandangardens.com

USS Turner JoyA restored Vietnam era destroyer - the first permanent, and publicly accessible, Naval heritage and educational ship attraction in the Pacific Northwest. The USS Turner Joy (DD-951) is a restored Vietnam era destroyer that can be toured from the boiler room to the bridge.

300 Washington Beach Ave., Bremerton, WA 360-792-2457www.ussturnerjoy.org

‘Pride in Diversity’ A Gender Variety Show Join the crew of Queerly Beloved and their guests as they host their annual show to raise money for LGBTQ+ Scholar-ships for Olympic College students. You will see Drag Kings and Queens as well as people simply being free in their ex-pression. Join us Friday, June 23rd at the Bremerton Eagles at 7PM. This show, due to the venue is 21+. Like the Facebook page for details regarding family friendly shows! 205 6th St, Bremerton, WA 98337 facebook.com/QueerlyBelovedKitsap

Bainbridge Island Wineries GroupThe Winery Alliance of Bainbridge Island • Seven great, yet small, wineries on Bainbridge Island • Each independent • Passionate about wine • Four wine tasting rooms. Come meet the winemakers • Learn a little • Taste a little • And have some fun on Bainbridge.

12976 Roe Road, Bainbridge Island, WA www.bainbridgewineries.com

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Olympic College and the Diversity Advisory Council thank all the dedicated volunteers, charismatic presenters, and enthusiastic participants in this, our fourth annual Olympic College Diversity Conference. It was our pleasure to provide this opportunity to learn, grow, and meet new friends.

5th Annual Diversity Conference

June 21 & 22, 2018

Thank You

Olympic College provides equal opportunity in education and employment regardless of race, color, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, parental status, creed, religion, military status. For inquiries regarding non-discrimination compliance, contact Human Resources Executive Director: [email protected]; 360-475-7305. For inquiries regarding sexual misconduct compliance, contact Title IX Coordinator: [email protected]; 360-475-7125. Mailing address: 1600 Chester Ave., Bremerton, WA 98337-1699

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