
As part of the Chancellor’s Campus Climate Support Initiative, University Human Resources (UHR) is proud to continue its Diversity Dialogues, a series of discussions and conversations from academic and non-academic viewpoints, highlighting issues pertaining to discrimination, as well as methods, ideas, and specific actions to confront and combat hate.
The wake of devastating violence targeting communities based on ethnicity, religion, race, sexual orientation, etc. has ranged from the killing of individuals to mass shootings at businesses and houses of worship. The rise in hate crimes has had a deepfelt and often devastating impact on our communities, specifically communities that are more visible and vulnerable. We are privileged to host an in-depth discussion of this prevalent problem to evaluate the root cause of hate, how to overcome it, and how to find unity across the divides by presenting real-life powerful stories.
This discussion will feature three board members of We Are Many-United Against Hate (WAM-UAH), a non-profit, non-partisan organization: Daryl Johnson, a subject matter expert on organized hate groups and domestic terrorism; Arno Michaelis, former White Supremacist who recruited people into supremacist hate group; Pardeep Kaleka, a former police officer whose father was killed in the Sikh Temple shooting in Wisconsin in 2012. Also joining the discussions is WAM-UAH’s founder, entrepreneur, and Anti-HateActivist Masood Akhtar.
The panel will be moderated by CUNY’s own Sahana Gupta, Chief Diversity Officer for the School of Professional Studies, and Member of CUNY’s University Advisory Council on Diversity (UACD).
The Diversity Dialogue will be presented virtually on April 18, 2024 from 11:00am - 1:00pm.
The deadline to register is Wednesday, April 17, 2024.