FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ
Favianna Rodriguez is an transdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and activist based in Oakland, California. Her work and collaborative initiatives address migration, economic inequality, gender justice, and ecology. Favianna leads art interventions around the U.S. on intersection of art, social justice and cultural equity. Her artistic practices include printmaking, installation, social practice, digital organizing, and institution building . Rodriguez collaborates deeply with social movements to co-create art that’s resilient and transformative. She is the Executive Director of CultureStrike, a national arts organization that engages artists, writers and performers in immigrant rights. In 2012, she was featured in a documentary series by Pharrell Williams titled “Migration is Beautiful” which addressed how artists responded to failed immigrant policy in the United States. In 2016, she received the Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship for her work around mass incarceration. In 2017, she was awarded an Atlantic Fellowship for Racial Equity for work around racial justice and climate change. For more information about Favianna and her art, please visit: www.favianna.com |
LILY LAMBOY, PH.D.
Dr. Lily Lamboy holds a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University, where she currently teaches in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Her work as a researcher and organizer focuses on achieving transformational social change in the face of ongoing structural oppression along lines of gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality. Most recently, she has published work with Cambridge University Press on racial inequality as an obstacle to democracy and an article on the potential normative implications of metrics-driven performance in the journal Theory and Research in Education. Lamboy is the co-founder of the Stanford Diversity in Leadership Infaitiative, the founder of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Gender Empowerment Initiative, and served for five years as the graduate mentor for Stanford Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, where she also taught courses in Greek and residential life. She is the recipient of the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford’s highest honor recognizing pedagogical work. She is currently working on research concerning justice in recruitment, hiring, selection, retention practices at the organizational level. |
DANICA ROEM
Danica Roem is the delegate for the 13th District of Virginia. Danica made history in 2017 as the first elected openly transgender state-level elected official in the nation. Since her election, she has driven a message and agenda of inclusion and progress for all Virginians. She believes that no matter what you look like, where you come from, how you worship if you do, or who you love, you are welcomed, celebrated, and protected here because of who you are, not because of who discriminatory people say you should be. |