Diversity Council members meet bi-monthly
at Centerville Library,
111 West Spring Valley Road, to share committee updates and to host
public forums on specific cultures, races, religions, and other timely
topics.
The Council's mission is
to bring together governments, schools, businesses, media, faith and
ethnic communities, organizations and individuals to promote
multiculturalism and address issues of diversity.
2010-2011 Meetings:
March 25, 2010,
7-8:30PM - Forum:
Challenges to Peace and Prosperity: Iran - with guest speaker Melody Moezzi
Miami Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 8690 Yankee Street, Centerville
Born in 1979, Melody Moezzi grew up mostly in Dayton, Ohio (graduated
from Centerville High School) amid a strong and vibrant Iranian-American
Diaspora. She is a writer, speaker, activist, author and attorney. Her first
book, War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims, earned her a Georgia
Author of the Year Award and a Gustavus Myers Center for Bigotry and Human
Rights Honorable Mention. Moezzi is a commentator for National Public Radio's
All Things Considered and for Georgia Public Broadcasting's Georgia Gazette.
At this Forum, Moezzi will relate general background information about Iran
and about their culture. She will also relate her experiences growing up here
as an Arab-American.
April 22, 2010,
7-8:30PM - Forum:
Challenges to Peace and Prosperity: Afghanistan - with guest speaker
Jaro Bilocerkowycz
Miami Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 8690 Yankee Street, Centerville
Professor Bilocerkowycz is an author and professor of political science
specializing in national security and global politics at The University
of Dayton. He has written numerous articles for the World Book Encyclopedia
and is author of the book Soviet Ukrainian Dissent. He covers Afghanistan
in courses on international relations, global politics, nationalism and
ethno politics, and US national security.
Past
Meetings:
September 26, 2006 - Read
a transcript from the panel
discussion: "Gay and Lesbian Issues at the Intersection of Faith and
Public Policy."
