DiversityWorks is always looking for community members to come join our growing pool of programs. We welcome people of all ages and backgrounds. No prior experience in peer education or diversity awareness work is necessary, just an open mind, good follow-through, and a commitment to social justice. There is no cost to participate in most of DiversityWorks' programs, and all are open to the public.

Current programs that you might be interested in checking out are:

The DiversityWorks Book Club will meet once a month in the Oakland/Grand Lake area to discuss fiction and non-fiction books that are related to such diversity topics as race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, family structure, religion, age, and ability/disability. The group will meet on the fourth Thursday of every month from 7:30-9:00PM, with the first meeting being on the 28th of August. The first book the group will be discussing is White Teeth. It’s the very funny debut novel of 23 year-old Zadie Smith and it’s set in London with an inventive cast of characters. Themes include immigration, assimilation, race, and class. So please be ready for discussion on the 28th. Sign up by contacting Julie Chang at or 510-835-9227.

This year’s presidential election has raised no shortage of fascinating diversity issues, and the Diversity In Politics Dialogue Group will take a look at some of these. Meeting every third Wednesday from 7:00-9:00PM between August 20th and election day, we’ll look at such topics as “identity politics vs. political position”, “religious minorities in the US”, “the hierarchy of ‘isms’”, and “mixed race America”. This dialogue group is in no way about promoting any one candidacy, nor is it much about politics. Instead, we’ll use this year’s political races as a point of departure to look at more universal diversity issues. The dialogue group will meet in Berkeley, and you can get more information about the group by emailing .

 

  
   
 

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