Guest Speaker Events

Environmental Racism and Social Justice: Exploring the SFV through a "Toxic Tour"

Thursday, September 17, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

The Institute's Director, Dr. Natale Zappia, will be hosting a workshop on environmental justice and its relation to sustainability. Read more

2020 CSUN Fast Pitch New Venture Competition (Virtual Event)

Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Now in its 6th year, CSUN Fast Pitch is an "elevator pitch" competition where students have three minutes to pitch their startup idea to a panel of judges and audience. The competition is hosted annually by CSUN's Nazarian College and generously supported by the Marine Family. Read more

Better Money Habits

Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

This Sept. 24 Zoom webinar, sponsored by Bank of America, will help recent grads learn about resources that can help them now and for the future. Topics will range from long-term planning, credit and debt management tips and setting budgets and building savings. Read more

CDSC 3rd Annual Social Justice Student Conference via Zoom

Wednesday, April 29, 2020 - 11:00am to 4:30pm

CDSC 3rd Annual Social Justice Student Conference 2020 via Zoom

Please use the following link to register: https://csun.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mwNRiBI2Tl-X6AYjzRBmaw.

There are three, seventy-five minute long panels of four students each at 11 AM, 12:30 PM, and 2 PM Pacific Time.

The keynote speaker is Dr. Jamaica Osorio, Assistant Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Dr. Osorio is an activist and an award-winning poet/spoken word artist. Their performance/talk (entitled “From our Frontline to Yours: Moʻolelo Aloha ʻĀina in a time of Transformation”) focuses on the Native Hawaiian struggle against the building of a thirty-meter telescope on Mauna Kea. Read more

Javier Zamora

Monday, April 27, 2020 - 11:00am to 12:30pm

Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador in 1990. His father fled El Salvador when he was a year old; and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents' migrations were caused by the US-funded Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992). Read more