Speakers Bureau
This resource, coordinated by the Office of Institutional Transformation, features Notre Dame faculty and staff available to deliver keynote presentations or guide discussions on a variety of topics related to creating an environment of welcoming and belonging. Speakers have selected topics (listed below) that align with their expertise and experiences. About the Speakers Bureau.
To request a speaker, please contact a them directly via email to extend an invitation to present at a meeting, workshop, conference, etc. To inquire about joining the Speakers Bureau, please email the Office of Institutional Transformation at transformation@nd.edu.
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Alicia Bates
Advisor to the Dean of Lib Adv, Hesburgh Libraries
- Professional counterspaces
- Professional development
- Social media
- DiSC personality and behavioral assessment facilitator
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Crystal Bates
DEI Program Director, Dean's Offc-School of Architecture
- Invisibility/hypervisibility of people of color in primarily white institution spaces
- Bias
- Microagressions and macroagressions
- Restorative approaches to cultural offenses
- Developing cultural competencies
- Well-being and psychological safety (in young people and adults)
- College admissions
- Leadership development and coaching
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Denise Brenes
Student Success Asst Dir, Multicultural Stu Progs and Servs
- Critcal Race Theory
- Racial battle fatigue
- Microaggressions and macroaggressions
- Allyship
- Women of color feminisms/intersectionality/affect
- Working at historically white institutions/decolonizing the academy
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Kristen Collett-Schmitt
Teaching Professor, Finance
- Women's empowerment
- Imposter syndrome
- Authentic leadership
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Rev. Joe Corpora, C.S.C.
Education & Outreach Assoc Dir, Transformational Leaders Program
- Supporting students who are first-generation or from low-income backgrounds
- Supporting undocumented/DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students
- Understanding diversity, equity, and inclusion through Catholic Social Teaching
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Mary Davis
CSLC Assistant Director, CSLC-Ctr for Study of Lang. & Cult.
- Supporting international and undocumented students
- Cultural adjustment
- Intercultural communication and development
- Name pronunciation microaggressions and accent bias
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Dory Durham
Associate Teaching Professor, Klau Ctr. for Civil & Human Rights
- Understanding and overcoming bias
- Reading group facilitator for many diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice related texts
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Kelsey Forry
Alumni Educ Program Director, Alumni Association
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion discussion facilitation
- College admissions process for high school students pursuing creative careers (arts, music, entertainment)
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Max Gaston
Law DEI Prg Dir, Law School Career Development Offc.
- The neuroscience of unconscious bias
- Habits of mind
- Cross-cultural competence
- Microagressions
- Inclusive leadership and building inclusive culture
- Civil rights
- Voting rights
- Historical and contemporary issues in Haiti
- Law school admissions
- The imposter phenomenon
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction
- Cycle of violence in abusive relationships
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Richard Herbst
Cinema Program Director, Performing Arts Administrative
- How to teach with documentary films
- Intersectionality and censorship
- Queer representation
- Resume writing
- Privacy laws
- Filing human rights violations
- Applying to law school
- Forming 501c3s
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Paige Jackson
Law & Grad Business Assoc Dir, Annual Giving - Senior Director
- Racial battle fatigue/racial microaggression
- Bystander training
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Eve Kelly
Executive Director for Institutional Transformation and Staff Belonging
- Microaggressions and subtle acts of exclusion
- Bias mitigation
- Communicating across difference
- Educational access
- Supporting students who are first-generation or from low-income backgrounds
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Tara Kenjockety
Assistant Librarian, Hesburgh Libraries
- Information literacy/critical thinking skills/library skills
- First-generation support
- BIPOC (black, indigenous, and other people of color) student support
- American Indian student support
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Cecilia Lucero
Advising Professor, Center for University Advising
- Supporting students who are first-generation or from low-income backgrounds
- Supporting undocumented/DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students
- Supporting students of color
- SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) facilitator
- Academic advising
- Storytelling and performance
- Microaggressions, implicit bias, and cultural competence
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Joan Mcclendon
VP Enrollment Senior Counselor, VP for Undergraduate Enrollment
- Compassionate listening circles
- Empathy
- Self-care
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Maria McKenna
Professor of the Practice, Inst for Educational Initiatives
- Allyship
- Supporting students who are first-generation or from low-income backgrounds
- Educational inequity
- SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) facilitator
- Supporting undocumented/DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students
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Jessica McManus Warnell
Teaching Professor, Management & Organization
- Inclusive leadership
- Managing across differences
- Business ethics
- Supporting students
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Calvin Metts
Mgr Executive Chef Morris Inn, Hotel Retail Outlets
- Raising kind and curious children
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Leslie Morgan
Concurrent Associate Professional Specialist, First Year of Studies
- Navigating diversity, equity, and inclusion in librarianship
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Alyssa Ngo
Student Leadership Asst Dir, Multicultural Stu Progs and Servs
- Facilitating student engagement and leadership
- Multicultural student club programming and support
- Current events and status of Notre Dame multicultural clubs and organizations
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Christa Strickler
Associate Librarian, Hesburgh Libraries
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion in library cataloging and classification (e.g., racism, ableism, etc. embedded in library classification systems)
- Offensive language used in Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Power and responsibility in describing information resources
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion limitations of epistemologies underlying library information organization
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion in library information organization (through a Protestant theological lens)
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Tahra Taylor
MBA Career Develop Assoc Dir, MGP Career Development
- Career coaching
- Leadership coaching
- 360-degree feedback coaching
- Human Resources topics