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Initiatives and Programs

The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion employs a multifaceted approach to engaging with the Marist community. Members of the team facilitate dialogues while empowering faculty, staff, and students to engage with sponsored programs. The office also sponsors a variety of initiatives to enhance the community and increase the sense of belonging for community members. Ongoing initiatives include:

Marist hosts speakers and presentations through the Understanding Race Lecture Series. Below is an archive of select individuals who have visited Marist and spoke to our community.

AUTUMN 2020

Image of Understanding Race Lecture Series speaker Michelle Alexander

Social Justice Conference – Entire day of speakers and workshops, including keynote by Nyle Fort and Selwyn Miles Jones on "Black Lives and the Legacy of George Floyd: A Conversation"

SPRING 2020

Jasmine Rand, Esq. – lawyer for family of Trayvon Martin, on the subject of the killing of unarmed Black men

AUTUMN 2019

Social Justice Conference – Entire day of speakers and workshops, including keynote address by the authors of Picking Cotton, on the subject of racism in the criminal justice system

- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioner Charlotte Burrows to Give Closing Talk at Social Justice Event

- Bakari Sellers – lawyer and political commentator, on the subject of education, civil rights, and equality

SPRING 2019

Ibram X. Kendi – author of How to be an Anti-Racist, on how to be an anti-racist

SPRING 2018

Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, on the subject of mass incarceration

AUTUMN 2017

Reyna Grande – author of The Distance Between Us, on her Mexican immigrant experience

AUTUMN 2016

Wes Moore – author of The Other Wes Moore, on the subject of race in urban America

Tim Wise – author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race, on the subject of antiracism

SPRING 2016

James Cone – author of Black Theology and Black Power, on the subject of lynching

Vernon Wall – required faculty training on anti-racism

AUTUMN 2015

Cornel West – best-selling author of Race Matters and frequent political commentator on national news programs, on the subject of race, class, and justice in America

SPRING 2014

Launch of Marist’s “Understanding Race” Lecture Series

Michael Eric Dyson – author of 20 books addressing multi-generational racial oppression, on the subject Race, Racism and Race Relations, launches Marist’s “Understanding Race” Lecture Series