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Plenary Panel Discussion
Friday, October 29. 2010, 1:15-2:30 pm
Tearing Down the Myths
This panel will empower audience members to hear stories told from various racial-ethnic groups and to begin building relationships with one another.
Moderator: Dr. Antony Stately, Ph.D
Sara Kolstad Axtel is an apprentice and teacher in the European American community at the Cultural Wellness Center. She works as a community liaison at the University of Minnesota where she collaborates with others to develop community-campus partnerships that involve authentic, equitable relationships, and an exchange of skills, knowledge, and resources. She lives with her family in St. Paul.
Dolores Fridge is the former Associate Vice Chancellor of Equal Opportunity and Diversity in the Office of the Chancellor for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System where she was responsible for contract compliance, diversity & inclusion, EEOC and human rights issues as well as community outreach and Affirmative action for the 32 campus system. Previously she served as the Commissioner of Human Rights under Former Governor Arne Carlson. Dolores is currently a Senior Associate for the National Multicultural Institute, and is on the board of directors for Minnesota Minority Education Partnership.
Salvador Miranda is Associate and Training Director at the Organizing Apprenticeship Project and has been a part of OAP since 2001. He brings a background in Chicano studies and law and is a 3rd generation Mexican American with roots in St. Paul’s West Side Flats. A community organizer for 30 years, Miranda was a founder of the Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless. In the early 1990s, he convened bilingual organizers who reshaped Catholic Hispanic Ministries. Working with John McKnight and the Latino congregations in Interfaith Action/ISAIAH, Miranda led the creation of the Mercado Central in Minneapolis and helped build the Latino congregational organizing strategy for ISAIAH. He is a board member of the Latino Economic Development Corporation.
Saciido Shae Co-founder, President, and Executive Director of Somali Youth Action of MN! Saciido Shaie was born in Somali and came to America with her family in 1992 as a refugee. She is a mother of three and a College student at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. She is a former teacher of Arabic and Islamic studies at Abu-Bakr al-Sadiq Islamic Center. Saciido has been a community leader and political activist for the last 10 years, and the recipient of the 2006 National Community Award. She
also served as a board member for Somali Action Alliance and Abu-Bakr al-Sadiq Islamic Center. She sits on the Parent Partnership Committee for Child Safety and Permanency with the Department of Human Services.
Kayoua Vue A long time ago, Ka Youa Vue's great-great-great-grandparents fled from China to Laos. In the late 1970s, her parents rafted across the Mekong River from Laos to Thailand to the Ban Vinia Refugee camp where Ka Youa was born. She and her family flew to the United States in 1994. She is the oldest of seven children, and the first one from her family to go to college. She is now working at Prevent Child Abuse Minnesota and enjoys being involved in the community.
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