Celebrate diversity at NIC on April 16

COEUR d’ALENE — The community is invited to participate in a variety of free events being held all day April 16 during North Idaho College’s fourth annual Diversity Symposium in the Edminster Student Union Building on NIC’s main campus.

Highlights of the event include play readings, a Cardinal Reads Roundtable Discussion, programs on “A Journey into a Deaf World” and “Courageous Conversations” and a panel discussion on “Language Maintenance and Revitalization within the Indigenous Columbia Plateau.”

Keynote speaker Daniella Zalcman will discuss her ongoing project, "Signs of Your Identity," a portrait series of survivors of Canadian Indian residential schools.

The project received the 2017 Arnold Newman Prize, a 2017 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the 2016 FotoEvidence Book Award, the 2016 Magnum Foundation's Inge Morath Award and is part of Open Society Foundation's Moving Walls 24.

Zalcman is a documentary photographer based between London and New York. She is a multiple grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation and the founder of Women Photograph.

A full schedule of all the day’s events can be found at www.nic.edu/events. Space is limited. Attendees are encouraged to visit Eventbrite.com to reserve free tickets.

Information: Jo Lien, 208-929-4037 or josann.lien@nic.edu