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Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon
Public information officer: Joan Aschim, (541) 463-5591, aschimj@lanecc.edu
Source: Jose Casimiro Ortal, director, AA/Diversity/EO/Recruitment and Employment, Lane Community College, 463-5801, ortaljc@lanecc.edu
For release October 4, 2005
Oregon Diversity Institute centers on community, campus and workforce
The Oregon Diversity Institute will be held November 3 to 5 at Central Oregon Community College in Bend, 2600 NW College Way. This year's event, "Collaborating for Diversity: Community, Campus and Workforce," will feature keynote speakers Dolores Huerta, Myrlie Evers-Williams and Elizabeth Woody. The registration deadline is October 21.
Dolores C. Huerta is the co-founder and first vice president emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO ("UFW"). The mother of 11 children, 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, Huerta has played a major role in the American civil rights movement.
Myrlie Evers-Williams was the first woman to chair the NAACP, a position she held from 1995 until 1998. In 1999, she published her memoirs, "Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be," which charts her journey from being the wife of activist Medgar Evers to becoming a community leader in her own right.
Elizabeth Woody, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in Oregon, earned a bachelor's degree in English from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. From 1994 to 1996, Woody was a professor of creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. As an artist, Ms. Woody has exhibited regionally and nationally. She is one of the founding members of the Northwest Native American Writers Association.
The Oregon Diversity Institute was started 10 years ago by a group of community colleges including Lane Community College, to bring together educators and others interested in diversity issues in business, education and society.
The conference is open to students, educators and all interested community members. The cost is $100; $70 for students. Individual day prices are $50 for the general public and $35 for students. Registration and scholarship information is available at http://odi.cocc.edu/. For information, call 318-3747 or e-mail odi@cocc.edu.###
