Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration

faces&voices Cultural Celebrations

Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration

MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2025

Q Casino + Resort Reflections Event Spaces
1855 Greyhound Park Road, Dubuque, Iowa
7:00 a.m. Breakfast 7:30 a.m. Celebration

REGISTER AND PURCHASE TICKETS BY:
January 13, 2025

REGISTER + PAY ONLINE

COST:
$300/table for 10
$30/individuals 11 and older
$20/youth 4-10
Free/children 3 and under

All registrations after January 13 are $350/table or $35/individual and youth and on a space available basis. Payment by cash or check may also be made at the door the morning of the event. Make checks payable to: CFGD/faces&voices

EVENT CHECK-IN:
Please print each ticket or have ticket available on your phone to present at the event check-in.


2025 MLK Celebration Speaker John StewartLiving as a Called Person: MLK and You and Me

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:


John is a retired university administrator and communication professor. He served on the faculty of the Department of Communication at the University of Washington from 1969 to 2001. He then moved to the University of Dubuque as Vice President for Academic Affairs. John was Special Assistant to the President of UD from 2010 until his retirement in 2016.

During his academic career, John taught, researched, and worked with executive personnel at accounting, medical, manufacturing, architectural, engineering, and legal organizations and with pastors, political candidates, and boards of directors. After moving to Dubuque, he focused his training and consulting efforts on diversity-equity-inclusion (DEI) projects for a variety of for profit, nonprofit, educational, health care, and religious organizations.

John has written or edited 25 books, including 11 editions of Bridges Not Walls: A Book About Interpersonal Communication. In 2017 he published Personal Communicating and Racial Equity, 2nd. ed., and his most recent book is Dismantling Racism One On One: Uniqueness Narrative Equity (2023). He lives in Dubuque with his wife, Becky.

2025 MLK Celebration Speaker Book Cover: Dismantling Racism One on One

BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT EVENT!

Dismantling Racism One On One: Uniqueness Narrative Equity
by John Stewart

 


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Greater Dubuque

Q Casino + Resort


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