Race and Equity

Yolanda Barton (BA, Laws, Societies, and Justice, 2004 | MC, Digital Media, 2018) wants to use virtual reality to preserve the music history of Seattle.         

Tim Bond,  UW's Head of Professional Actor Training Program and Professor of Acting and Directing, directs Antoinette Nwandu's 'Pass Over' at ACT Theatre.

Dani Tirrell (Dance lecturer) is a self-described "movement guide," and mines both his personal life and the culture around him to create dance performances with something to say.

Allen Otte and John Lane will lead a lecture-performance, with UW Percussion Ensemble, and discussion.

An artist’s inspiration can come from anywhere. For UW Painting + Drawing Professor Lin Zhi, it happened in August 2001, on a road trip from Missouri to Seattle.

Devin Naar, professor of Sephardic Studies at the UW, weighs in on the impact of the Holocaust on the Jewish community in Saloniki, Greece. 

Meet the American Ethnic Studies alum whose new gallery in White Center celebrates Latinx art and a home for the 'in-between.'

Valerie Curtis-Newton, head of directing program in the School of Drama, is the director of "Nina Simone: Four Women" at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, on stage April 26. 

Artist Sara Siestreem speaks at the Henry Art Gallery about what it means to be a tribe member, artist, educator

At 18, Bruce moved back to the States to attend the University of Washington, where he majored in drama. 

Sociology professor Alexes Harris speaks about the impact of fees in the criminal justice system.

The Southern Lushootseed language, once spoken where the UW now sits, is finding new speakers through a UW course.

UW political science professor, Megan Ming Francis, explores how the NAACP and its funders have lessons for philanthropy and activism.

Megan Ming Francis, associate professor of political science, discusses "movement capture" and its effect on the civil rights movement.

Alaniz, a professor in the department of Slavic languages and literatures, spoke about Mexican-American representation in comics from the 1950s to the 1980s.