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Higher Education Diversity Summit 2015

Now in the 5th year the Higher Education Diversity Summit is becoming the go-to diversity conference in Colorado, at Auraria Campus, April 10. This peer reviewed conference has 4 content areas: Accessibility Issues; Community Colleges & Two-Year Institutions; Diversity, Social Justice, & Inclusive Excellence; and LGBTQ Issues and this years theme is "Who’s Sitting Next to You: Diversity Unmasked".

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The Plenary Speakers for the Summit

These leaders in the movement for inclusivity and change in our world Bill Shannon and Ericka Huggins are will energize and inspire all who attend the Summit.

Bill Shannon

Bill Shannon is an internationally renowned interdisciplinary dance and media artist who defies definition and gravity. Through storytelling, dance, physical comedy, visual art and live video of street performances, Shannon shares with his audience how his dance/mobility form with crutches and a skateboard slowly evolved into a linguistic project. He documents how he created dance techniques on crutches while performing, speaking and showing his work around the world.

Ericka Huggins

Ericka Huggins is a human rights activist, poet, professor, and former Black Panther leader and political prisoner. For the past 25 years, she has lectured throughout the United States, where her extraordinary life experiences have enabled her to speak personally and eloquently on issues relating to the physical and emotional well-being of women and children, youth, education, incarceration, and the role of the spiritual practice in sustaining activism and promoting change.