Summer Speaker Information and Materials 

  • June 8th: Lorelei Coddington

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Email: ljcod@verizon.net
Website:
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  • June 15: Dr. Gail Thompson, Claremont Graduate University
    "Wings of a Dove: Helping African American Students to Soar in School"

Bio: Dr. Gail L. Thompson  taught  in public junior high and high schools for fourteen years. During this time, she won a civic award for outstanding teaching, as well as teaching awards from student organizations. Thompson served as a district-selected mentor teacher, and later developed an after-school literacy program for struggling elementary school students. She has appeared on PBS television’s The Tony Brown Journal, National Public Radio, KPCC, WURD, WBAI, WSOU, and KXAM, and has been quoted in several newspaper articles. She has served as a reviewer for the Educational Broadcasting Network, and several academic journals, and has done presentations, keynote addresses, workshops, and consultant work throughout the U.S. and two presentations in Canada.
Email: gail.thompson@cgu.edu
Website: http://www.cgu.edu/pages/4690.asp
Materials: Main handout; Presentation Quick Write; Test Questionnaire; Alterable Variables Questionnaire; Mind-set Questionnaire

  • June 22: Pat Miller-Fee

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  • June 22: Judy Chiasson, Project 10 Specialist, Education Equity Compliance

Bio: Dr. Judy Chiasson is a coordinator in LAUSD’s  Office of Human Relations, Diversity and Equity, a position that represents the convergence of her experiences as an educator, researcher, writer, and community activist.

As an educator, she taught students with exceptional needs for over 25 years and is Nationally Board Certified. She is a graduate of CGU's Urban Education program where she studied the prevailing attitudes that people hold towards gays and lesbians and interventions that could promote more understanding.  She brings those lessons into her work at LAUSD where she is works with schools to reduce intergroup bias and conflict. 
 
Dr. Chiasson is also a founding member of GLIDE (Gays and Lesbians Initiating Dialogue for Equality) a community group that conducts diversity training workshops on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender concerns. GLIDE believes that through face to face conversations, bias can be reduced and people can come to respect one other. This past year GLIDE conducted 350 such trainings here in Los Angeles to middle school, high school and college students. 
 
Email: judy.chiasson@lausd.net
Website: http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/offices/eec/project10.htm
Materials: Chiasson CV; LGBT and Definition of Terms; LGBT and Ed Law; LGBT and Religion
"A Population at Risk" (PowerPoint); What is "Age Appropriate;" Q&A Safe Schools Coalition