Guest Speaker Events

SEARAC is a national civil rights organization that advocates for justice and equality for Southeast Asian American communities on a local, state, and national level. Its work hopes to inspire and empower future generations to fight for social equity for refugee communities, communities of color, and other social justice movements. Katrina Dizon Mariategue will speak on SEARAC’s work promoting refugee advocacy, developing leadership amongst Southeast Asian American youth, building interracial solidarity, and struggling against migrant detention and deportation. Read more

Francisco Aragon is a Nicaraguan-American poet. His newest poetry collection is titled After Ruben. He will read from his collection and then have a Q&A. Read more

Now in its 6th year, CSUN Fast Pitch is an "elevator pitch" competition where students have three minutes to pitch their startup idea to a panel of judges and audience. The competition is hosted annually by CSUN's Nazarian College and generously supported by the Marine Family. Read more

Please use the following link to register: https://csun.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mwNRiBI2Tl-X6AYjzRBmaw.

There are three, seventy-five minute long panels of four students each at 11 AM, 12:30 PM, and 2 PM Pacific Time. 

The keynote speaker is Dr. Jamaica Osorio, Assistant Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.  Dr. Osorio is an activist and an award-winning poet/spoken word artist.  Their performance/talk (entitled “From our Frontline to Yours: Moʻolelo Aloha ʻĀina in a time of Transformation”) focuses on the Native Hawaiian struggle against the building of a thirty-meter telescope on Mauna Kea. Read more