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SPRING 2024
The Baby Broker Project: Inside the World’s Leading Low-Cost Surrogacy Agency
Naipanoi Lepapa
Pulitzer Center Grantee & 2022 Journalist of the Year in Kenya
Thursday, March 14
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Kreider Hall (SR 138)
Giveaways & FLEX Available
Optional - Want to read her article before the event? bit.ly/babybrokerproject
In Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Héctor Tobar
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Glendale Community College Auditorium
4-5 p.m.
Our Migrant Souls: Thinking about Race and "Latino" Identity in the U.S.
Earning the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for covering the 1992 LA Riots and named Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction in 2023.
Professor of English and Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine.
Supporters: California Community Foundation, GCC Foundation, Student Equity, GCC Hispanic-Serving Initiatives, Student Services, Humanities/Social Sciences Lecture Series
When Ruins Speak: My Journey of Poems and How it Resonates with Human Survival Today
Thursday, April 25 | 12:30 – 1:30pm | LB 222
Sponsored by the Humanities/Social Sciences Lecture Series in honor of Armenian Genocide Remembrance
Nare Garibyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia and lived in Tallinn, Estonia as a young child, before immigrating to the United States. She has a bachelor’s degree in English from UCLA and a master’s degree in college counseling from USC. She is an academic counselor at GCC. Nare is a published poet and has an extensive writing resume.
A History of U.S. Feminisms with Author Dr. Rory Dicker
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PST
On Zoom at bit.ly/usfeminisms
A Free Public GCC Virtual Event
Rory Dicker is the Director of the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center at Vanderbilt University. A native of New York State, Rory earned a bachelor of arts from the Johns Hopkins University, where she majored in English and minored in French. After completing her PhD in English at Vanderbilt, Rory taught at Westminster College in Missouri for several years before returning to Vanderbilt to teach, mainly in the Women's and Gender Studies program. Rory teaches classes about women and literature, feminist pedagogy, and the history of American feminisms.
Sponsored by the Humanities/Social Sciences Lecture Series & GCC History Department
FALL 2024
Immersed in Oil
Tuesday, Sept. 10
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Kreider Hall (SR 138)
Dr. Tara Pixley is a queer, Jamaican-American photojournalist and Assistant Professor of Journalism at Temple University. Her photography, which reimagines race, gender, and LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities through a liberation lens, has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Newsweek, Allure, ProPublica, and ESPN, among many others. She’s coming
to GCC to discuss Big Oil and environmental injustice in LA.
- Ask Your Instructor if Extra Credit is Offered
- Free + Open to the Public
- Faculty FLEX Available / Student Prizes!
- Questions? Ask mstonis@glendale.edu