Chicago Humanities Festival

For Diversity and Inclusion Visionaries

For over 20 years, the Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF) has grown into one of the most expansive and accessible annual gatherings of great minds in the country. Each fall, CHF produces 100 programs during an intensive three-week period throughout the Chicago region.

An array of lectures, panels, and roundtables cuts across all disciplines. Each of the 100 programs is presented in multiple venues provided through partnerships with cultural institutions and universities. CHF also offers video and audio of more than 250 free programs on its website.

Join other diversity visionaries as we go beyond the conferences and awards to anticipate and drive societal change. This will be a new learning adventure for today's top diversity professionals as we chart our path for tomorrow.

Pat Harris and McDonald's Global Inclusion and Intercultural Management team in partnership with the CHF, invite you to a day without preconceptions. On November 7th, you will hear from experts about non-traditional topics including society, humanity, and technology. Following these innovative speakers we will engage in a robust discussion aimed at producing a widely accessible facilitation guide for diversity enthusiasts.

This clip features a suprise performance by Lamar Jordan of the Chicago Young Authors "Louder Than A Bomb".

Diversity Day Speakers:

Virginia Eubanks joined the Women's Studies department at SUNY-Albany in 2004 after completing her Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research on technology, poverty and women's citizenship developed through a history of activism in the community media and technology center movements. She earned her B.A. in American Literary Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1994) and her M.S. in Rhetoric and Communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1999).

Adam Bradley is a scholar of African American literature and a writer on black popular culture. His commentary has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post as well as on PBS, NPR, and C-SPAN. He is the author or editor of several books, including Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop and The Anthology of Rap. Most recently, he collaborated with the rapper and actor Common on Common’s memoir, One Day It’ll All Make Sense.

Raul Coronado is an Assistant Professor in English Language & Literature at the University of Chicago. His teaching and research interests are in Latina/o literary and cultural history, from the colonial period to the 1940s, with an emphasis on rethinking the literature of the Americas in a transnational, hemispheric framework. His teaching focuses on the historical specificities of the U.S.-Mexico border, while simultaneously providing new insights into the literary and cultural legacies of modernity and colonialism in the Americas. In the next several years, his teaching will focus on the development of a U.S. Latina/o public sphere; how 19th and early 20th century Latinas/os engaged with and theorized the development of a modernity in the U.S. Southwest, New Orleans, and the east coast.