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Issue: 1156 Date: 10/18/2012
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Cross-Cultural Engagement In St. Louis
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| Cecilia Nadal, Founder and Executive Director, Gitana Productions (left) |
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Taking advantage of our community's diversity can be a challenge. While people of different ethnicities, cultures, and ages are all around us we can often find ourselves on the outside looking in. Host Don Marsh talks with guests about ways non-profit and arts organizations can engage new and underserved communities and improve their diversity.
Engaging communities and improving diversity are the topics of a
conference this week called "Cross-Cultural Engagement: Building a Diverse and Dynamic Community." In addition to keynote speaker Howard Ross, there will be a performance by the Urban Bush Women, which uses cultural expression as a catalyst for social change.
Guests
Howard Ross, Founder and Chief Learning Officer, Cook Ross Inc. and author of "Re-Inventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose & Performance"
Jill McGuire, Executive Director, Regional Arts Commission
Cecilia Nadal, Founder and Executive Director, Gitana Productions
Highlights
"Engaging people of diverse communities needs to be a worldwide effort. As far as St. Louis is concerned",
Jill McGuire said, "St. Louis is really moving forward and looking at
engagement."
Cecilia Nadal
said, "With the kinds of problems we have in St. Louis with the number of people
who are poor, we have to change the paradigm. If we do not we are going to be
left with a city that continues racial and ethnic isolation."
Howard Ross said
"research of human behavior has evolved remarkably over the last thirty years. 幈overwhelmingly human beings are biased and we have it for a reason because it is a survival mechanism and bias can show up in a negative way and a positive
way.".
Related Event
Gitana
Productions and the Regional Arts Commission present a conference called "Cross-Cultural Engagement: Building a Diverse and Dynamic Community" on October 11 and 12 at Webster University, Community Music School
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| "More than One-Dimensional: Explore Asian Diversity in St. Louis" Session: |
(from left) Dr. Vijay Buddhiraju-Professor, St. Louis University; Thuy-Linh Nguyen-National Health Policy Fellow at the Mission Center; Dr. Kim Song-Associate Professor at University of Missouri - St. Louis and Vice President of Korean American Association; Wesley Law-Professional Photographer; Connie He-Bank Examiner, Federal Reserve; Thong Tham - President of Organization of Chinese American, St. Louis Chapter |
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