The Community Health Mentor Program facilitated by Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University and the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix is seeking volunteers in the metro Phoenix area to share their stories!
If you have a disability or multiple chronic conditions you may be eligible to participate.
Join the Community Health Mentor Program at one of our info sessions to learn more about:
- What the Community Health Program is about
- Who can participate
- How to get involved
January Info Session Dates:
- Saturday 1/16/21
- Wednesday 1/20/21
- Saturday 1/23/21
You can also learn more on the Community Health Mentor Program website and complete the interest form:
Northern Arizona University’s annual MLK Day Celebration will be held virtually this year. The event will be held January 18th, 2021 and will start at 9 AM. This year’s guest speaker will be Dr. Marc Lamont Hill.
Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is an Activist, Professor, Commentator and TV Personality, who be giving a keynote on the “Importance of Black Lives.” This is an event you do not want to miss!
In an April 2018 NPR interview on assessing the Civil Rights Movement’s iconic legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 50 years after this death, Dr. Charles McKinney, professor of history at Rhodes College in Memphis (TN), warns against the “cotton-candy version of King” that too many Americans harbor at the expense of looking fully and more closely at the more radical King. Dr. McKinney further contends that “there’s a danger in the way King’s image has been enshrined in our country’s ethos, and it should not be ignored.” The occasion of this MLK Holiday is an opportunity look at the King that we don’t know and/ or don’t often talk about while we paint him as a romanticized “Black Santa Claus” of love and non-violence.
As a Vital Voices, this format invites attendees to bring with them a 2-3 minute share: poem, passage, speech, photograph, song or story. Co-facilitated by Project Humanities Founding Dr. Lester and Rhodes College professor of history, Dr. Charles McKinney.
***Interested attendees must RSVP via Eventbrite to receive the Zoom Webinar link and password 24 hours before event.***
The Community Health Mentor Program facilitated by Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University and the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix is seeking volunteers in the metro Phoenix area to share their stories!
If you have a disability or multiple chronic conditions you may be eligible to participate.
Join the Community Health Mentor Program at one of our info sessions to learn more about:
- What the Community Health Program is about
- Who can participate
- How to get involved
January Info Session Dates:
- Saturday 1/16/21
- Wednesday 1/20/21
- Saturday 1/23/21
You can also learn more on the Community Health Mentor Program website and complete the interest form:
The Community Health Mentor Program facilitated by Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University and the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix is seeking volunteers in the metro Phoenix area to share their stories!
If you have a disability or multiple chronic conditions you may be eligible to participate.
Join the Community Health Mentor Program at one of our info sessions to learn more about:
- What the Community Health Program is about
- Who can participate
- How to get involved
January Info Session Dates:
- Saturday 1/16/21
- Wednesday 1/20/21
- Saturday 1/23/21
You can also learn more on the Community Health Mentor Program website and complete the interest form:
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences invites the public to watch the 2021 Jonathan and Maxine Marshall Distinguished Lecture, presented by Colson Whitehead. The Jonathan and Maxine Marshall Distinguished Lecture Series brings to Arizona State University nationally known scholars concerned with promoting culture through the humanities and a better understanding of the problems of democracy. This annual free public lecture is funded with an endowed gift from Jonathan and Maxine Marshall.
Colson Whitehead
Whitehead is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of “The Underground Railroad” (an Oprah’s Book Club selection and winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize), “The Noble Hustle,” “Zone One,” “Sag Harbor,” “The Intuitionist,” “John Henry Days,” “Apex Hides the Hurt,” and one collection of essays, “The Colossus of New York.” He was named New York’s 11th State Author in 2018. His newest book, “The Nickel Boys,” was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in a number of publications, such as the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper’s and Granta. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Dos Passos Prize, a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for John Henry Days.
Solmaz Sharif
Sharif is an assistant professor in ASU’s Department of English. She was born in Istanbul to Iranian parents and holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Granta and others. The former managing director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, her work has been recognized with a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and an NEA fellowship. She was most recently selected to receive a 2016 Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. A former Stegner Fellow, she is currently a lecturer at Stanford University. Her first poetry collection, “Look,” was a finalist for the National Book Award.
The Jewish Family and Children’s Service (JFCS) Brighter Tomorrow Event is the nonprofit organization’s annual signature event showcasing JFCS’ impact on the wellbeing of more than 40,000 people in the Valley.
Robert Sarver, owner of the Phoenix Suns and executive chairman of Western Alliance Bancorporation, will deliver the keynote address. Sarver is a dedicated philanthropist who is committed to supporting Arizona’s local community, both through Phoenix Suns Charities and his and his wife’s own personal contributions. Under Sarver’s leadership, Phoenix Suns Charities has granted more than $21 million to Arizona nonprofits in the areas of education, healthcare and sports.
In keeping with current social distancing guidelines, the Brighter Tomorrow Event will be held online.
This is a community yard sale. All proceeds go to the youth in and from foster care in Arizona.
This is a community yard sale. All proceeds go to the youth in and from foster care in Arizona.
This is a community yard sale. All proceeds go to the youth in and from foster care in Arizona.