Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - MIIS

Join us for an insightful discussion led by Counselor Jacqueline Simon on how to best navigate post-election anxieties and fears. We strive to create a safe and understanding environment where everyone can share, unpack, and learn from each other.

About the Speaker: With over 30 years of experience in business and leadership development, Ms. Simon has worked across various cultures and sectors, including high-tech corporations like Apple and IBM, and community-focused non-profits.

Join us for an insightful discussion on Federal Indian Law! We hope to amplify the voices of tribal leaders and scholars during this discussion and invite anyone interested in the complexities and evolution of laws affecting Native American communities.

Join us for an insightful session on dealing with election anxieties, led by Jacqueline C. Simon, President & CEO of JCS Ventures. 

With over 30 years of experience in business and leadership development, Ms. Simon has worked across various cultures and sectors, including high-tech corporations like Apple and IBM, and community-focused non-profits. Ms. Simon has also been a dedicated advocate for ex-offenders, providing support services in various correctional systems since 1979. 

Join us for an insightful session on dealing with election anxieties, led by Jacqueline C. Simon, President & CEO of JCS Ventures. 

With over 30 years of experience in business and leadership development, Ms. Simon has worked across various cultures and sectors, including high-tech corporations like Apple and IBM, and community-focused non-profits. Ms. Simon has also been a dedicated advocate for ex-offenders, providing support services in various correctional systems since 1979. 

Join us for an insightful session on dealing with election anxieties, led by Jacqueline C. Simon, President & CEO of JCS Ventures. 

With over 30 years of experience in business and leadership development, Ms. Simon has worked across various cultures and sectors, including high-tech corporations like Apple and IBM, and community-focused non-profits. Ms. Simon has also been a dedicated advocate for ex-offenders, providing support services in various correctional systems since 1979. 

Come celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day with us on Monday, the 14th from 7-8pm in the McCone boardroom! Let’s come together to amplify Indigenous voices, spark meaningful conversations, and share stories as a community. Light refreshments will be available!

BIPOC Voices Series at MIIS is excited to welcome Dr. Terence Albert Marryshow, a Grenadian medical doctor who graduated from the University of Havana, Cuba in 1986. He is the grandson of one of Grenada’s foremost politicians, Theophilus Albert Marryshow known as the “Father of the West Indies Federation”. In many ways, Dr. Marryshow is a product of the Grenada Revolution of 1983 led by Maurice Bishop.

BIPOC Voices Series at MIIS is excited to welcome Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo is an assistant professor in Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies and History at the University of Iowa. She received her doctorate in Borderlands History at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in 2016. Her research interests include borderlands, women’s health and reproductive justice, Latina/o/x studies, and social justice movements.

Ava Homa is an acclaimed author, speaker, activist, and faculty member at California State University, Monterey Bay. Her debut novel, Daughters of Smoke and Fire (HarperCollins & Abrams, 2020), was featured in Roxane Gay’s Book Club, the Unplugged Book Box, and Women for Women International. The novel earned a place among the ‘best books’ in outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the Independent (UK), and Globe and Mail (Canada). It received the 2020 Nautilus Silver Book Award for Fiction and was a 2022 William Saroyan International Writing Prize finalist.

We would like to invite all MIIS faculty to participate in our 2nd faculty workshop designed to facilitate the creation of more inclusive and equitable classroom practices, to be held Tuesday, 8/20 at 10 AM - 12 PM PT. Given the many changes that are happening at the Institute, we see this is a meaningful opportunity to recommit ourselves to MIIS’s educational mission and vision of making our classroom spaces open to and welcoming of a diversity of viewpoints and intercultural perspectives.