Student journalists at the University of Colorado at Boulder are addressing issues of inclusivity and diversity through a bold, groundbreaking new awareness campaign to be unveiled at noon on Tuesday, Feb. 16, with U.S. Rep Jared Polis as the keynote speaker.
The CU Independent, CU-Boulder's student-run online news publication, will launch the campaign, called "Speak Out," on the University Memorial Center terrace along Euclid Avenue on the CU-Boulder campus. The event will be held outside regardless of the weather.
In addition to Polis, speakers at the event will include Erin Yoshimura, a cultural intelligence trainer and owner of Empowerful Changes of Arvada, and Nadia Gedeon, a 9News assignment editor and president of the Colorado Association of Black Journalists.
The Speak Out campaign is an endeavor the students have been working on for nearly a year with the CU Independent Student Diversity Advisory Board and TDA Advertising & Design, a Boulder company that donated its time to help with the effort.
For more information contact Amy Herdy, CU Independent adviser, at 303-947-7258, or Peter Caughey in the CU-Boulder news office at 303-492-4007.