Co-Curricular Events and Civil Discourse

Tuesday, Sept. 25^th:, 10:30 am – 11:45 am

Monday, Oct. 29th: 9:00 – 1:15 pm

Tuesday, Nov. 20th: 10:30 – 1:15 pm

https://www.isb-az.org/

Thursday, Sept. 27^th: 7:30 am – 12:00 pm

Monday, Oct. 22nd: 9:00 – 1:30 pm

(Contact Michele Marion for more details or to arrange for your class to attend.)

https://www.catholiccharitiesaz.org/all-locations/refugee-resettlement

Monday, Oct. 15^th: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Tuesday, Oct. 16th: 9:00 – 3:00 pm

(Contact Michele Marion for more details or to arrange for your class to attend.)

https://www.endslaverynow.org/arizona-league-to-end-regional-trafficking-alert

Sam Garman, Project Coordinator for the Bridging Success Initiative

October 30th: 10:30 - 11:45 am

April 17th: 10:30 - 11:45 am

Sam is responsible for ensuring the Bridging Success initiative, aimed at helping youth aging out of foster care be successful in their path to a college degree, is implemented across all Maricopa Community Colleges. Sam has over 10 years of experience working with underserved youth and is especially passionate about serving youth aging out of the foster care system. Sam attended MCCCD before completing his B.A. in communication at ASU. Sam served an AmeriCorps year and worked with a nonprofit focused on social change before returning to ASU to complete his Masters in Nonprofit Studies (MNpS). Most recently, Sam served as the Director of Curriculum and Training for New Pathways for Youth, a mentoring organization focused on providing youth faced with challenging circumstances with mentors to help them be successful. Sam lives in Tempe where he enjoys spending time with his family, completing house projects, and curating his extensive collection of bow ties.

catherine lockmiller, Health Sciences Librarian at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus at NAU

​catherine lockmiller allies with other transgender and LGBTQ+ people in the Maricopa Country. catherine is involved in social and health informatics and the ways they fit into the operating frameworks of both public and academic information spaces. In 2011, she earned her master's degree in English literature from the University of Dallas. She is a recent graduate from the San Jose State University MLIS program, where she focused her coursework on the directions digital libraries can take to empower underrepresented populations. Her research has appeared at the National Diversity in Libraries Conference, LITA Forum, and the CCHA National Humanities Conference. She also teaches critical information literacy at Chandler-Gilbert College Library and the QESST Solar Research Institute at ASU. 

catherine has authored this tremendous resource on transgender for South Mountain Community College. 

Wednesday, Nov. 21st: 9:00 - 10:15 am & 10:30 - 11:45 am

In many Southwestern matrifocal cultures, Indigenous women’s lives are modeled after female heroes and sacred women who exemplify and express courage and kinship values. Among some tribal cultures, rites of passage celebrate female creativity and the transformative nature of women, hence there was not a need for the concept of feminism. Nevertheless, Indigenous women’s lives remain invisible and stereotyped by Hollywood. This talk presents how Indigenous women have contributed in significant ways, not only to their tribal nations, but also to many aspects of contemporary American life.

Presentation Type – Road Scholar
Presentation Category – Culture, Gender & Identity Studies – Native American
This presenter is at ASU: Professor with Distinction in Indigenous Literature at Arizona State University and is the Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation for 2015-2019.

Anita Mamy describes her harrowing experience, escaping the Liberian Civil War and her book A Walk for Survival.

Tues., March 5th: 9:00 am - 10:15 am

Lois Roma-Deeley: February - April 2019

To learn more about Lois, visit her website: www.loisroma-deeley.com

Past dates for one-on-one consultations:

12 pm - 2 pm: March 6, 7, 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 26

12 pm - 2 pm: April 1, 3, 8, 9, 22, 24, 29

10 am - 1 pm: April 17

Many thanks to the Arizona State Library for funding our Writer in Residence program for Spring 2019. 

Past Events:

Wed., Feb. 27^th: 1:30 – 2:45 PM
SE Corner Library
"Geology of Spirit" combines the creative forces of poetry and photography. Rosemarie Dombrowski, Pat O’Brien, Lois Roma-Deeley, and Cyd Peroni's "Geology of the Spirit" is a unique and self-reflective exhibit channeling the desert Southwest to express themes of decay and rebirth. Their exhibit will appear at the Holland Gallery February 23, 2019 through March 28, 2019 http://www.geologyofspirit.com

Friday, March 1st: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Holland Gallery of Fine Art / Foothills Community Foundation
34250 N. 60th St. Bldg. B, Scottdale, AZ 85266
Art, Coffee and Conversation: Holland Gallery of Fine Art founder and artist Nicolette Bonstetter will lead a discussion with photographers Cyd Peroni and Patrick O'Brien and poets Lois Roma-Deeley and Rosemarie Dombrowski about their photo-poetic project on exhibition at the gallery from February 23 through March 28, 2019.

Saturday, March 9th: 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Holland Gallery of Fine Art / Foothills Community Foundation
34250 N. 60th St. Bldg. B, Scottdale, AZ 85266
Opening Reception: Fine art photographers Patrick O'Brien and Cyd Peroni will be on hand with poets Lois Roma-Deeley and Rosemarie Dombrowski to meet gallery-goers and talk about their 18-month collaboration. Poets will do live readings on the half hour and be available for book signings. Light refreshments will be served.