The 2024 Equity and Diversity Breakfast will be held on November 14, 2024, from 8 am to 10 am at McNamara Alumni Center. Join the Equity & Diversity Breakfast waitlist here.
Join the 2024 Office for Equity and Diversity Breakfast waitlist
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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.
Featuring Keynote Speaker Cherríe Moraga, internationally recognized poet, essayist, and playwright.
The Breakfast's Gallery of Excellence highlights faculty who address issues of equity, diversity, and social justice through innovative and groundbreaking research.
Equity & Diversity Breakfast Table Pricing
Full table (10 seats): $750
Half table (5 seats): $375
Individual tickets: $75
About the Keynote Speaker
Cherríe Moraga is an internationally recognized poet, essayist, and playwright whose professional life began in 1981 with her co-editorship of the groundbreaking feminist anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. She is the author of several collections of her own writings, including A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness, Loving in The War Years, and Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood. In the fall of 2017, she began her tenure as a Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where with her artistic partner, Celia Herrera Rodriguez, she has instituted Las Maestras Center: Xicana[x] Indigenous Thought, Art, and Social Praxis. Her most recent memoir, Native Country of the Heart, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In 2023, Haymarket Books published new, updated anniversary editions of Waiting in the Wings and Loving in the War Years.