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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Good Afternoon, Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Please join us for the Celebrating Diversity in Education Conference on Friday, April 20<sup>th</sup> at Whatcom Community College. Please forward to colleagues and students!
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Luca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:#2F5496">Luca E. Lewis, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:#2F5496">Vice President for Student Services<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:#2F5496">Whatcom Community College<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:#2F5496">237 West Kellogg Road | Bellingham, WA 98226<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:#2F5496">P: 360.383.3076<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:#2F5496">F: 360.383.4000<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Barbara Nolze <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 13, 2018 1:24 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ANNOUNCEMENT] Celebrating Diversity in Education Conference<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>This message is being sent out campus wide on behalf of Student Services<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><o:p> </o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><img width="351" height="453" style="width:3.6562in;height:4.7187in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D3D321.CD3BB4A0" alt="Title: Celebrating Diversity in Education Conference Graphic"><o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><o:p> </o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thursday, April 19, 6:30 pm-7:30 pm, Syre Student Center, for Parents, Faculty and Staff<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">ˇ<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Celebrating Diversity in Education, Voices Together Ignite Change, Fortifying & Furthering Our Commitments to Social Justice in Our Schools<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">ˇ<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Keynote address given by Verónica N. Vélez, Ph.D., Associate Professor & Director, Education and Social Justice Program & Minor, Woodring College of Education, Western Washington University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Friday, April 20, 8:30 am – 1:30 pm, Syre Student Center, for Students, Faculty and Staff<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">ˇ<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Celebrating Diversity in Education, Voices Together Ignite Change<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">ˇ<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Keynote address given by Verónica N. Vélez and Andrea Gamboa, Breakout Sessions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Register at:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><u><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://whatcom.edu/Home/Components/Form/Form/f0c6086a99404190a2911757d8e7b108/26">CelebrateDiversity2018</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Keynote Speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Verónica N. Vélez,<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt">
</span>Ph.D.</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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(Vero) Nelly Vélez</b> is an Associate Professor and Founding Director of the<span style="letter-spacing:.2pt">
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<span style="color:#1A1A1A">Before joining WWU,<span style="letter-spacing:-1.3pt">
</span>Vero worked as a Research Fellow and the Director of Public Programming at the Center for<span style="letter-spacing:-1.7pt">
</span>Latino Policy<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Research<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>(CLPR)<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span>UC<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Berkeley.<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
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</span>research priorities in the areas of education, im/migration, and civic engagement. She co-led a<span style="letter-spacing:-1.55pt">
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</span>needs<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>assessment<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>Mission<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>neighborhood<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>San<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>Francisco as<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>part of<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>a US Department of Education grant that resulted in $30 million to provide<span style="letter-spacing:-1.45pt">
</span>cradle-to-career services for Mission<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>
residents.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:4.15pt">Her research focuses on migrant mother activism, community-based participatory<span style="letter-spacing:-1.3pt">
</span>action research in grassroots contexts, popular education, and the use of digital mapping<span style="letter-spacing:-1.5pt">
</span>technologies to explore the spatial dimensions of educational (in)opportunity. Each of these areas is<span style="letter-spacing:-1.7pt">
</span>informed by her interdisciplinary training and expertise in Critical Race Theory (CRT), Latinx/a/o<span style="letter-spacing:-1.55pt">
</span>Critical Theory (LatCrit), Radical Cartography, and Chicana Feminist Epistemologies. Vero has<span style="letter-spacing:-1.25pt">
</span>published in multiple academic journals including <i>Educational Foundations</i>,
<i>Harvard Educational<span style="letter-spacing:-1.2pt"> </span>Review, Association of Mexican American Educators Journal,
</i><span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">and </span><i>Race, Ethnicity, and Education</i>,<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt">
</span>in addition to several chapters in edited<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt">
</span>anthologies.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>ethnic<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span>studies, and a BA in Psychology from Stanford University. In addition to her scholarly work,<span style="letter-spacing:-1.5pt">
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</span>Latinx/a/o<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>im/migrant<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span>families<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>over<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>15<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span>years.<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>In<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>2017, she<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>one<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>six<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>faculty<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>across<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Washington<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>State<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>awarded<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>The<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Ormsby<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>Award<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>Faculty Citizenship<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>recognize<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>exemplary<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>service<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>public<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span>interest<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>her<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span>efforts<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>create<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt">
</span>systems through which historically underrepresented and underserved students can access<span style="letter-spacing:-1.4pt">
</span>higher education. Vero is the proud daughter of a Mexican im/migrant mother and a<span style="letter-spacing:-1.35pt">
</span>Panamanian im/migrant father, whose journey to provide her with a quality education<span style="letter-spacing:.45pt">
</span>fundamentally<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span>inspires her work for social<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt">
</span>justice.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:95%">Andrea Gamboa, Foster High School
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Gamboa</i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:95%"> </span></i></b>was born and raised in<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt">
</span>Seattle where she attended 13 years of formal<span style="letter-spacing:.85pt">
</span>education before moving to Bellingham to attend<span style="letter-spacing:1.6pt">
</span>Western Washington University. Here she double majored<span style="letter-spacing:1.4pt">
</span>in American Cultural Studies with a concentration in <span style="letter-spacing:.7pt">
</span>Chicano/a<o:p></o:p></p>
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Studies<span style="letter-spacing:1.35pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:1.35pt">
</span>History.<span style="letter-spacing:.75pt"> </span>While<span style="letter-spacing:1.4pt">
</span>at<span style="letter-spacing:1.35pt"> </span>Western<span style="letter-spacing:1.4pt">
</span>Andrea<span style="letter-spacing:1.35pt"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing:1.35pt">
</span>an<span style="letter-spacing:1.4pt"> </span>active member of the MEChA de WWU chapter, a co-founder of the Ridin<span style="letter-spacing:1.7pt">
</span>Low in the 3-6-0 Lowrider Car show, attended numerous<span style="letter-spacing:1.1pt">
</span>conferences including LEAP, and helped revitalize the Migrant <span style="letter-spacing:.5pt">
</span>Youth Conference. She graduated in 2003 from Western, took time off<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span>and entered Seattle University’s Master In Teaching program, and<span style="letter-spacing:1.45pt">
</span>graduated in<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>2005.<o:p></o:p></p>
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She began teaching History at Foster High School in Tukwila (just<span style="letter-spacing:.5pt">
</span>South of<span style="letter-spacing:1.2pt"> </span>Seattle<span style="letter-spacing:1.25pt">
</span>near<span style="letter-spacing:1.25pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:1.25pt">
</span>airport).<span style="letter-spacing:.4pt"> </span>When<span style="letter-spacing:1.3pt">
</span>she<span style="letter-spacing:1.25pt"> </span>began<span style="letter-spacing:1.3pt">
</span>she<span style="letter-spacing:1.15pt"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing:1.2pt">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing:1.25pt"> </span>only<span style="letter-spacing:1.2pt">
</span>Xicana teacher in the building and one of a handful in the entire district.<span style="letter-spacing:2.15pt">
</span>She helped students begin a MEChA chapter, took students to LEAP,<span style="letter-spacing:.65pt">
</span>and eventually co-lead a Raza Leadership Conference at the high<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt">
</span>school. In 2009 she earned her National Board Teaching Certificate, the<span style="letter-spacing:1.2pt">
</span>highest certificated honor a teacher can earn in the U.S. She has served<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt">
</span>in numerous boards and committees, at many levels, but remains<span style="letter-spacing:1.6pt">
</span>most passionate about working with students and serving <span style="letter-spacing:1.8pt">
</span>the community. She is passionate about her chosen career and<span style="letter-spacing:.2pt">
</span>believes deeply in helping students unlock their potential and love for<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt">
</span>learning<o:p></o:p></p>
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