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By Antioch University
Antioch University’s Undergraduate Studies program hosted a panel on April 28 titled Leadership to Embrace Equity – Forging an Inclusive World. The event honored International Women’s Day.
Attendees learned from four highly successful leaders how they worked through their personal challenges and went on to promote diversity in their current environments. The panel consisted of Laura Capps, Second District Santa Barbara County Supervisor; Dr. Anna Everett, Vice President of SBCC Board of Trustee; Paula Lopez, president of Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee and former award-winning TV journalist; Dan Meisel, executive director of the tri-counties Anti-defamation League; and moderator Barbara Greenleaf, speaker, author and former vice chancellor of AUSB.
According to Anna Kwong, chair of the Antioch BA program and the event organizer, “Panels on diversity, equity and inclusion prompt us to reflect on our own beliefs and biases. I am grateful for these community leaders’ contributions in helping the younger generation achieve more than we ever thought possible.”
The event kicked off with the Outstanding Alumni Awards, which went to Patricia Hecker and Maggie Mabuchi. It concluded with a buffet lunch in celebration of the various ethnicities of Antioch’s staff, students, and community members.
Event was made possible by the Ken Richardson Student Support Fund.
About Antioch Santa Barbara
With more than 4,500 distinguished alums, Antioch University Santa Barbara (AUSB) has been honored to serve the diverse communities of Santa Barbara and the central coast of California since 1977. AUSB is proud to graduate leaders in the fields of education, clinical psychology, business management, and writing – and to offer a bachelor’s degree completion program that elevates our community.
About Antioch University (Founded 1852)
Inspired by the work of pioneering educator Horace Mann, Antioch University provides learner-centered education to empower students with the knowledge and skills to lead meaningful lives and to advance social, economic, and environmental justice.
Cue the unhinged Mega cult members.
It’s so easy to just stop screaming hate and take a moment to think about how others are born into a different life situation than your white, straight life. It’s not the same for everyone, even today. Racism and homophobia are alive and strong in this country and even in this county. We should not tolerate it.
Allowing others a chance to express, promote, teach us about, and further themselves is not going to harm your children. Stop being ignorant and hateful and try just considering how others lives are different and harder than yours. It’s so easy, yet you all are too lazy and/or hateful to even try.
Why do y’all have to poke the bear? Just about every time? Obviously, you enjoy it, but maybe picking up a physical form of teasing and fighting would be healthier. I am generally in agreement with yous, but it’s not my style to be aggressive verbally or in writing.
SacJon: Well said, I can’t imagine how exhausting and sad it must be to constantly buy into the hate and fear peddled on the right. I think a big part of it is if we all accept diversity and unite, the working class could turn on the powers that be and demand living wages. The latter will try hard to keep us divided and conquered, making peanuts and staying subservient.
Gross. Two people here disagree with the notion of empathy and understanding. That’s the problem in this country. Too many are too lazy and/or hateful to even consider thinking of others.
Coincidentally, I just went through annual DEI training at the office. My company has been doing this for years before it became a hot potato for people of a certain mindset. While one can look at DEI in multiple contexts (e.g. corporate culture, societal values), it’s clear doing things in ways that value diversity, equity, and inclusivity increases odds of ending up with better outcomes.
It sometimes feels lame that we need these reminders. But then again lots of people need reminders to save for retirement or to change the oil in their car.
DEI? Sounds like people don’t accept people as they are. Sounds like certain people only pay attention to a persons exterior and not who they are as a person. Sounds like we are making decisions & rules based upon a persons outward appearance only & not giving credit for achievements. Totally understand certain people may be biased. We see it here people using skin color to judge others. For example calling all white Christian’s racist. “All” is extreme. But this is a politician topic and not a cultural topic.
Or as SBUSD states the reason why 70% of Hispanic children can’t read & write at grade level is because they’re Hispanic. Yes this what the board & superintendent stated multiple times when asked about academics.
SBUSD stated Hispanics cannot learn the same as other cultures. That was a real eye opener from the people in charge of educating our kids.
So who’s the racist? The Dem controlled school board? Or the white parents who ask why the district apparently can’t educate all kids equally.
Is it skin color holding them back or their culture not valuing education, are the teachers purposefully not teaching certain groups of kids?
These kids are 4th, 5th generation Santa Barbarans.
This inequity in education has been around for over 2 decades long before DEI.
Anyone have any ideas why the Hispanic children are left behind? How do we help?
SBLETSGETALONG – Sounds like you don’t get it. We’re not all given the same lot in life. That’s what DEI is about. Helping to understand how those, even born today, are not getting the same choices, options and opportunities as others, based on traits they are born with.
SBLetsPostaBookintheComments: Sounds like you did the usual and didn’t read the article then went to the comments to start some junk. This is about a grad school discussion panel, not your discussion panel of applying nonsense Fox News projection to what’s going on around you. I am Latino, 3rd generation in SB. Myself, family members, and others grew up speaking Spanish with older family members. Grandparents and parents also cut short their education to focus on working and providing for us. Parents worked multiple jobs and side hustles just to stay in town and give us the necessities. Studies now show that reading to kids daily and helping them with homework from an early age has massive effects on their education. Not everyone has that luxury, I’m assuming you did bc you’re implying teachers are somehow racist instead of noting the basic fact pattern that is obvious to people from my background. The only racist fools are the ones calling us rapists, murderers, aliens, or telling us to go back to our country and I know who they vote for.
In my day, “DEI” was Dale Earnhardt, Inc..
My, how things have changed.
Lmao don’t worry, it’s just an acronym, old sport. You can still watch a bunch of other white dudes with corporate stickers all over their cars go fast and turn left. The peak of American sports.
Wallpaper and a nice photo op. Here’s a better idea – just treat everyone as you would want to be treated. I’m taking in real life, not in a press release.
“just treat everyone as you would want to be treated” – and just forget and ignore how minorities were enslaved, oppressed, beaten, lynched, fired from their jobs, denied college admissions, ostracized, raped, left in the gutter, etc over the last few hundred years and are still suffering because of systemic prejudice and racism?
Yeah, cool idea bro. It’s so easy. Just be nice to those who never had a chance in life and are still discriminated against for how they were born. That’s all they need. Genius!
Basic, show us how.