With Heart | April
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About the speaker
Dr. Rhianna C. Rogers is an associate professor, fellow, public speaker, cultural advocate, world traveler, and cross-cultural thinker. She has won multiple awards for her innovative approach to teaching and learning, including, most recently, the 2021 James William and Mary Elizabeth Hall Endowed Award for Innovation, 2020-2021 SUNY Provost/Dean Innovation Reassignment, the 2018-2019 SUNY Explorations in Diversity & Academic Excellence Awards (EDAE) as well as the 2017-2018 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. In Dec. 2020, two of her research innovations (SUNY Empire Connects and Virtual Residencies) were featured in the United Nations – Geneva Forum. In 2020, Rogers co-founded Sustainable Progress and Equality Collective (SPEC), an expansion of her highly successful WNY research project, the Buffalo Project. Her experiences teaching and traveling in the US, Middle East, Europe, and Latin America have pushed her to be curious and inclusive of diverse perspectives as well as an advocate for cross-cultural engagement. Overall, Dr. Rogers enjoys meeting new people, traveling to new places, and experiencing all life has to offer.
Additional details
‘WITH HEART’ is a limited, virtual series coming together live and in-experiment with past speakers, the BiC all-volunteer team, and you: Buffalo’s creative community. Together we’ll explore what’s driving creative capital investment in the now and here, with levity and a dutiful dose of sprinkles.
INTERPRETERS AVAILABLE
A sign interpreter is available, thanks to Deaf Access Services. To make arrangements, email us by the Wednesday before the event.
Photo from Beth Insalaco on CMbuf Flickr.
