The World is All Around Us: An Interactive Session on Diversity

Speaker:

Lee Mun Wah

31 Jan 2017

6:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

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Lee Mun Wah is a documentary filmmaker, author, educator and founder of Stirfry Seminars, a diversity training company that provides educational tools and workshops on cross-cultural communication and awareness, mindful facilitation, and conflict mediation techniques. His popular interactive session focuses on what it takes to create a truly multicultural community. He is best known for his documentary The Color of Fear, the subject of a Oprah Winfrey special. His latest film, If These Halls Could Talk, focuses on college students and their dialogue about race and racism, and other diversity issues in higher education. Lee Mun Wah was a resource specialist and counselor in the San Francisco Unified School District for more than 25 years prior to founding Stirfry Seminars.

When institutions desire to enhance their multicultural environment, what will our students, staff, and faculty need to prepare themselves? What kinds of skills are necessary? What kinds of cultural knowledge will be required to connect with this new population? How will they attain this level of expertise and from whom? These and many other questions will be answered in this dynamic and popular interactive session about what it will take to create a truly multicultural community.