Event Itinerary:
5:30-5:40pm: Welcome and Opening Remarks: Macaulay Diversity Initiative and Dean Mary C. Pearl

5:40-6:00pm: Keynote Speaker: Khaleel Anderson
–Winner of the New York State Assembly in District 31; Democratic and Working Families Party
-Khaleel will share more about his experience with CUNY, activism, organizing, and running for office, offering advice on how you can get involved.

6:00-6:30pm: Macaulay Alumni Panel: How to tell if a Potential Employer values Diversity and Inclusion
-Sponsored by Career Development and Alumni Relations
-Whether it’s an internship or job opportunity, join this discussion to learn ways to vet your potential work environment and how to help make effective change in an organization from within. Alumni panelists Melanie Boyce (Hunter ’13) and Evelyn M. Pérez-Albino, Esq. (Hunter ’08) will discuss their personal experience and expertise, share advice and offer tips on how to ensure you are joining an inclusive work environment.

6:30-7:30pm: Workshops

Workshop Option 1: Student Activism Panel
-Sponsored by the Macaulay Diversity Initiative
-Student mobilization and activism has consistently been at the center of so much progressive change throughout American history. Join Macaulay Diversity Initiative on November 19th to discuss the first steps to becoming a student activist and leader on your campus. Connect with our student panelists Caroline Schwab, Teona Pagan, Zalal Ahmad, and Aaron Narraph Fernando as they discuss their journeys to becoming student activists and change makers at their colleges and beyond. You’ll learn how you can make an impact, start getting involved with activism work, and meet new people.

Workshop Option 2: Integrating Integrity into your Academics
-Sponsored by the Macaulay Scholars Council, Academic Affairs Committee
-This workshop focuses on how to integrate integrity into your academics. What is integrity? How do you incorporate the concept into your everyday life especially as a student? We will be discussing how to have complicated and hard to navigate conversations in the most mindful manner, being more empathetic and considerate of others, how to work collaboratively in an academic setting, and the manners in which one can educate themselves to be more sensible scholars overall. By attending this workshop we hope you are able to take away tips and strategies on how to be more productive members of your academic community and incorporating those strategies in a manner most comfortable and natural to you.

Workshop Option 3: Activism in Art
-Sponsored by the Macaulay Scholars Council, Diversity Committee
-We will present a number of powerful art pieces (visual art, music, short films, poetry/writing) by a diverse group of artists that are heavily engaged in activism on social media. We will also feature creators/activists at CUNY. Students will have the opportunity to express their interpretations of the art pieces and connect them to topics such as diversity, racism, and inclusion. Then, we will include an interactive component of the workshop where students will work together to construct a piece of visual art that exhibits diversity at CUNY. Finally, we will provide students with a list of sources for education that include activism instagram pages, YouTube channels, and Netflix shows/movies.