Speakers
This program highlights Sexual Assault Awareness and can help your school meet primary prevention initiatives. Topics cover the intersection of alcohol, sexual assault, legal consent, sexual health and wellness. It is ideally suited for comprehensive campus-wide sexual assault programming and can be framed within Orientation Seminars and First Year Experience formats. It covers peer pressure [Read more…]
Advertisers are hiding sexual, death, and religious messages in the backgrounds of advertisements you view hundreds of times every day. These ads appear on TV, on the Internet, and even on your cell phone. Most importantly, there is no way to defend yourself against the insidious effects of subliminal advertising. Now see these [Read more…]
Surviving Inside the American Drug War Even Minor Marijuana Charges Could End Your College Career! Every state and every university is different. This program is an interactive multi media presentation utilizing audience participation to keep the conversation focused on what matters to you. Institutions won’t allow students to use marijuana on campuses for fear of running afoul [Read more…]
Technology and Human Rights “How many of you want to have a positive impact on the world? To fight climate change? To advocate for racial justice? To actively work for gender equality? LGBTQ rights? Income equality?” Clyde Ford asks his audience— young, idealistic, full of students. Most hands shoot up. “For those of you with [Read more…]
Think you have nothing to hide? Guess again! Admit it: you don’t really read the endless terms and conditions connected to every website you visit, phone call you make or app you download. But every day, billion-dollar corporations are learning more about your interests, your friends and family, your finances, and your secrets…and are not [Read more…]
Learn about the 25 ways politicians con voters and how you can recognize a con when you see one. In this presentation, New York Times bestselling author Rick Shenkman uses striking video clips to show the many ways politicians fool voters by appealing to their fears and exploiting their anger. In a well-timed talk [Read more…]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4-3eVvFuo0&t=66s With self-harm and suicide ideation reaching epidemic highs, there has never been a more critical time to connect in a real way and for students to know they aren’t alone. GARCIA’s raw and revealing approach is leading students to rewrite the stigma of mental health, making her one of the most game changing voices [Read more…]
Dan Parris@ TEDx Gateway Arch, St. Louis, on 9/11/14 Virtual Option: Individual screenings followed by your choice of various technology options (ie: Zoom, Skype) for group Q & A/discussion with the principals from the film. PERFECT for Poverty Awareness and National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Weeks. What breaks your heart? What makes you [Read more…]
“WHICH LIVES MATTER” is an intense, inclusive, educational program, intended to build bridges, not walls. Speaker, poet, and activist Monti Washington helps students explore the history, conditioning, stereotypes, and racism that separates and divides our community and nation. He addresses the issues from a social media and social justice perspective. With spoken word [Read more…]
With humor and compassion, Molly Secours deftly navigates the murky waters of racial bias and encourages honest discussion. Secours effectively reveals how even those with ‘good intentions’ inadvertently promote division and disparity. By asking ourselves a few key questions, we develop empathy while learning how a lack of inquiry can perpetuate ‘white privilege’ and inequity [Read more…]