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2023 - 2024 Equity & Inclusion Virtual Speaker Series
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HNA is pleased to partner with several other independent schools in Greater Seattle to offer the Equity & Inclusion Virtual Speaker Series, designed to provide HNA's community an opportunity to connect, learn, and engage in topics around equality, inclusion, and antiracist education and action. The series includes four nationally-recognized speakers. 

The Speaker Series is free. Visit this page to Register.

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Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez
Thursday, October 5, 2023 | 6:00 - 7:15 p.m.
Storytelling as Resistance: Experience at Predominantly White Institutions and Generational Trauma

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez was born in Managua, Nicaragua, but calls Nashville, Tennessee, home. She is a feminist, theologian, storyteller, and advocate founder of Latina Rebels, and author of For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts. A Love Letter to Women of Color. Mojica Rodríguez merges storytelling with pedagogy to help folks understand the larger forces at play, also known as systemic oppression. 

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Dr. Bernice A. King
NEW DATE: Thursday, February 15, 2024 | 5:00 - 6:15 p.m. 
A Conversation with Dr. Bernice A. King

Dr. King is the CEO of The King Center and a global influencer of our time who lives a life of faith, principles, and intention. She is a transformative leader with a clear vision who can mobilize movements and inspire change. Dr. King is the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King, two of the world's most influential and recognized leaders. 

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Dr. Megan Asaka 
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 | 6:00 - 7:15 p.m. 
Beyond the Model Minority: Asian American Histories of Resistance and Renewal in the Pacific Northwest and Beyond

Dr. Megan Asaka is an award-winning scholar, writer, and teacher of Asian American history, urban history, and public humanities. She is the author of Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City, which examines the erased histories of the communities that built Seattle. The book was inspired by her own family history in Seattle as well as her work as an oral historian and archivist for Densho, a community-based organization that seeks to preserve and share the stories of the Japanese American incarceration. She is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Riverside, and lives in Pasadena. 

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Ruha Benjamin 
NEW Date: Thursday, May 23, 2024 | 6:00 - 7:15 p.m.
Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Setting of Technology and Society

Ruha Benjamin is a professor of African American studies at Princeton University; founding Director of the IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab; author of three books: Viral Justice, Race After Technology, and People's Science; and editor of Captivating Technology. Ruha writes, teaches, and speaks widely about the relationship between innovation and inequity, knowledge and power, race and citizenship, and health and justice. 

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