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Tiombe Wallace is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with twenty years of experience as a feminist therapist, educator, and activist working to empower survivors and communities. Her specializations include feminist therapy, trauma-informed care, sexual and domestic/intimate partner violence, child abuse, as well as advocacy for survivors with disabilities and mental illness, health advocacy, working with communities of color, and other anti-oppression work. Her presentation is designed to explore the aftermath of sexual victimization through the lens of survivors’ experiences.…

Ending the Cycle of Fear: Increasing Understanding of Muslims and Arabs in America is presented by Huda Essa, founder, consultant of Culture Links, LLC. This timely, relevant topic is one that continues to be talked about in public and private conversations all over the world. Muslims represent about one-fourth of the world’s population, yet they are a group that is severely misunderstood in America. Join us to increase your critical consciousness, awareness, and understanding of how this topic relates to…

Mr. Obed Silva will be speaking on “Unlearning Racism” on March 30, 2017, in CCCPLX 414. Obed Silva was born in Chihuahua, Mexico and raised in Orange County, California. As immigrants, his family’s first home was in a predominantly white neighborhood in the City of Westminster. However, it was not in this neighborhood where he first encountered racism, but at “the happiest place on earth”—Disneyland. While in line for the Haunted House, with others from his family, he (eight years…

Cypress College Veterans Resource Center, Professional Development, and Student Equity present a movie screening of "Severe Clear." The film depicts the reality of war, including footage shot in Iraq. The screening will be accompanied by keynote speaker Mike Scotti and will take place in CCCPLX 216. For tickets, click here.

Cypress College hosts its second annual Yom HaShoah Holocaust Day of Remembrance on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Pond. The event will include presentations by Holocaust survivors, music, dance, and photography. The College’s event last year featured a keynote presentation from Dr. Jacob Eisenbach, a Holocaust survivor whose father, sister, and younger brother were killed by the Nazis, and whose remaining brother was killed in an anti-Semitic attack. His mother had died before the start of…