This year marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of Title IX legislation and its impact on making educational programs and services more equitable.  This 2018 documentary specifically looks at creation of this bill and its impact on collegiate sports through the lens of the University of Hawaii women’s volleyball program, which echoes in many ways […]

Storme Webber is a Two Spirit Sugpiaq/Black/Choctaw poet and an interdisciplinary artist. Her work is cross genre, incorporating text, performance, audio, altar installation, archival photographs, and collaboration in order to engage with ideas of history, lineage, gender, race, and sexuality. Her practice explores liminal identities, survivance, and decolonization in a blues-jazz-based experimental manner that often […]

In Care Work, a collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning and disability justice activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarashinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice by mapping access to radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community.  It […]

Phil Gruen (Design and Construction) will examine equity and justice relative to those experiencing homelessness through the theme of the built—and imagined—environment. With a focus on Seattle, this talk draws upon the centrality of housing, home, and place that runs through several narratives in Tales of Two Americas. Hosted by the WSU Pullman Common Reading […]

Award-winning science journalist Michelle Nijhuis is a contributing editor at High Country News and project editor at The Atlantic Monthly. Her most recent book, Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction, won the Sierra Club’s 2021 Rachel Carson Award and was selected by the Chicago Tribune as one of the 10 Best Books of 2021. Hosted by the WSU […]

Hitler’s government sought to violently redesign German society upon assuming power in 1933 by defining who belonged and who was excluded. During the same period, many in the United States saw America’s racial, religious, and ethnic identity in narrow and exclusive terms as well. In both Nazi Germany and the United States, leaders were determined […]

The Thriving Authentically program will feature Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) panelists who will offer students valuable industry insights regarding their chosen career paths and how they cultivated their professional and cultural identities on that journey. Hosted by the ASCC and the Office of Outreach and Education. Register to receive the Zoom link: https://wsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqf-qtqTwjGdalujwQx9kEkJzxxxzk5-o4

Lupe Gamboa is a former farmworker, organizer, and community activist; Michal J. Fox is a civil rights activist, labor lawyer, and retired judge. Together they will talk about the economic and social inequalities of migrant labor in the Yakima Valley, and the activism that has sought to address them. This talk accompanies the opening of […]

Dr. Noel Schulz will talk about the need for diverse voices in the STEM fields. Known for her dedication to recruiting and retaining women in the field of engineering and her mentoring female engineering faculty, Dr. Schulz will talk about the need for diverse voices in the STEM fields in order to solve our most pressing problems. […]