On August 22, ACT Human Rights Film Festival kicks off the school year by screening an inspiring film about a group of tween girls who have learned that bystanders don’t catalyze change. Meet the “Radical Monarchs,” a group of 8 to 13-year-old girls of color from Oakland, CA, who are at the front lines of social justice. The film, We Are the […]
This story originally appeared in CSU SOURCE and is written by Tony Phifer. Eighteen hours after etching her name in broadcasting history books, Jenny Cavnar was still trying to get her bearings. A whirlwind of activity – including a doctor’s appointment with 7-month-old son Vin, a phone call from the CEO of AT&T, and fielding […]
This story originally appeared in the July 2019 edition of the CSU Alumni Association’s Alumline For more than 20 years Carol (B.A. Speech Arts, ’67) and Jim Nussbaumer (B.S. Electrical Engineering, ’67; M.S. Electrical Engineering, ’78; M.S. Computer Science, ’92) have traveled from their Estes Park, Colo., home to Embangweni, Malawi, for weeks at a […]
Mahalia Henschel, communication studies major and leadership minor, received the Outstanding Junior in the College of Liberal Arts award from Phi Kappa Phi on April 3, 2019. Phi Kappa Phi is an all-discipline National Honor Society promoting academic excellence and service to others. In order to be eligible for the award, students must be in […]
Happy Friday. Happy first Friday of May and a gorgeous morning it is. A wonderful way to begin to wind down our semester. I am seeing emails announcing that MA students are defending their theses. That is great news and another sure sign that spring is here. Hey lots of different bits of news this […]
Less than 90 minutes before the documentary film “Fog of Srbrenica” was set to play at the 2017 ACT Human Rights Film Festival, Serbian filmmaker Samir Mehanovic’s cell phone rang. Mehanovic, who has the physique of a former Olympic weightlifter, was casually walking the few blocks from The Armstrong Hotel to the afternoon screening at […]
Happy Friday. The last Friday of April and it has dawned a beautiful morning. I hope all is well for you as you close out this week. I have little to report this week (how often have I started Friday emails that way and they end up several pages long?). Lin Kidder will be in […]
Folks: Happy Friday! I hope all is well with all of you. Some of you already know this first bit of news. Nancy has accepted a position at UNC. Her last day will be next Friday. While Nancy has been her under a year, she is already deeply embedded in our community. She has brought […]
Graduate student Savanna Depew, was awarded Top Student Paper by the Western States Communication Association for her submission, “Home is where the Work is: The Role of Businesses in the Creation of a Sense of Belonging for Diasporic Communities.” Depew wrote the paper in Dr. Eric Aoki’s Global Identities class in April of 2018. Depew […]
Folks: Happy Friday. For many of you tomorrow is opening night of the film festival. I am sorry I am not there. I am writing from Montgomery Alabama where I am attending the Southern States Communication Association Annual Convention and doing research on civil rights memory with colleagues and dear friends. More on that in […]
