Contemporary Issues Forum
Debra Chasnoff

THE JOHN F. O'LOUGHLIN LEADERSHIP SERIES ENDOWMENT PRESENTS

Debra Chasnoff
Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow
and
President and Senior Producer at GroundSpark

Safe Schools ~ Social Justice Advocacy ~ Filmmaking for Change

Sponsored by The John F. O'Loughlin Leadership Series Endowment

Debra Chasnoff, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has fueled progressive social-change movements in many fields, will be on campus for a three-day residency.  She will be visiting classes and will offer a public lecture series addressing safe schools, social justice advocacy, and filmmaking for change.

Lecture Series Schedule:

What it Takes to Create Safe and Welcoming Schools – My Twenty Year
Dream is Coming True

Tuesday, October 23rd at 7:30pm
Eben Holden

Lecture includes film screening of Let’s Get Real, with excerpts from Straightlaced - How Gender’s Got Us All Tied Up and It’s Elementary - Talking About Gay Issues in School


Forging a Path as a Social Justice Advocate
Wednesday, October 24th at 7:30pm
Griffiths 123

Lecture includes film screening of It’s STILL Elementary, with excerpts from Deadly Deception – General Electric, Nuclear Weapons, and Our Environment and Homes and Hands – Community Land Trusts and Action


Documentary Filmmaking for Change:  Tricks of the Trade
Thursday, October 25th at 4:30pm
Griffiths 123

Lecture includes film screening of One Wedding and a Revolution, with excerpts from That’s a Family! and A Foot in the Door (on-line very soon)

 

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