The 2025 Equity and Diversity Breakfast will be held on Thursday, November 13, 2025, from 8 am to 10 am at the McNamara Alumni Center.
Registration is full! If you are interested in attending, you can still join the waitlist.
Join the Waitlist
If you have already registered, please provide the name, dietary needs, and access needs of all guests using this Google Form no later than November 1.
The annual Equity and Diversity Breakfast brings together the University community and external stakeholders—alumni, donors, community organizations, and corporate entities—to recognize the students, staff, and faculty that exemplify the University's commitment to equity and diversity.
At the Office for Equity and Diversity Breakfast, we recognized the outstanding students that receive Scholarly Excellence in Equity and Diversity (SEED) Awards, as well as the winners of the Outstanding Unit Award for Equity and Diversity, the Josie R. Johnson Human Rights and Social Justice Award, and the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Award.
Another key element of the Equity and Diversity Breakfast is the Gallery of Excellence. The Gallery of Excellence invites deans from all collegiate units on the Twin Cities campus and the Offices of the Chancellor on system campuses to highlight their faculty's equity and diversity research. Learn more about the Gallery of Excellence
About the Keynote Speaker
Alejandra Peña Gutiérrez has been working for 30 years in the art world. Her career started in Mexico City where she worked at the Museo Nacional de San Carlos and the Museo de Arte Moderno, before she became director of the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes. She was General Deputy Director for Artistic Heritage at the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico before she moved to Puerto Rico to work at the Museo de Arte de Ponce, where she was the director from 2013 to 2021. Since 2021 she has been the director of the Weisman Art Museum of the University of Minnesota.
Peña Gutiérrez has been a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors since 2014; she was also part of the Board of the US National Committee for the International Council of Museums (ICOM) from 2018 to 2024; where she was Co-Chair of the Programing Committee and then Co-Chair of the Membership Committee. From 2020 to 2023 Peña was also a member of the Disaster Risk Management Standing Committee that advises the Executive Board and Advisory Council of ICOM General.