NOTE TIME CHANGE!!! – War and the Economy
Felice Yeskel
Friday, 06 Feb 2004 at 5:45 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Felice Yeskel is a founder and spent 7 years as the Co-Director of the Boston-based, national, non-profit, United for a Fair Economy. She is also on the faculty of the Social Justice Education Program, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she founded and directs The Stonewall Center: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Educational Resource Center. She is also the co-director of DiversityWorks, Inc., an organization of social justice educators that provides training and consulting on issues of diversity and multiculturalism. She has led hundreds of workshops across the country about economic inequality and about healing divisions among Americans of different class backgrounds, races, genders, and sexual orientations.(Felice Yeskel is the keynote speaker for the 4th Annual Multicultural Leadership Summit which will be held on Saturday, February 7, and is free to all ISU students. Registration for the Summit is required: http://www.sac.iastate.edu/PowerofOne/Msummit/.)
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