faces&voices Cultural Celebrations
Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration
MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2025
Q Casino + Resort 1855 Greyhound Park Road, Dubuque, Iowa
7:00 a.m. Breakfast 7:30 a.m. Celebration
Living 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 when he 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.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE!
Dismantling Racism One On One: Uniqueness Narrative Equity
by John Stewart
City of Dubuque
Dubuque Community Schools
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Community Foundation of
Greater Dubuque
Q Casino + Resort
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