About this Event
Please join us in commemorating the launch of the Department of Public Affairs and Nonprofit Leadership with a special event featuring Deepa Iyer, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at Building Movement Project and writer, Social change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection.
The event will be moderated by Dr. Maureen Emerson Feit and Dr. Rashmi Chordiya and will include a student-led panel discussion and an interactive exhibit on Iyer’s Social Change Ecosystems framework.
5:30 pm reception; 6 pm event begins. Appetizers and refreshments will be served before and after the event.
Deepa Iyer is a South Asian American writer, strategist, and lawyer. Her work is rooted in Asian American, South Asian, Muslim, and Arab communities where she spent fifteen years in policy advocacy and coalition building in the wake of the September 11th attacks and ensuing backlash. Currently, Deepa leads projects on solidarity and social movements at the Building Movement Project, a national nonprofit organization that catalyzes social change through research, strategic partnerships, and resources for movements and nonprofits. She conducts workshops and trainings, uplifts narratives through the podcast, and facilitates solidarity strategy for cohorts and networks.
Deepa’s first book, (The New Press, 2015), chronicles community-based histories in the wake of 9/11 and received a 2016 American Book Award. Deepa’s most recent book (2022), a guide based on the social change ecosystem map that she created, is called Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection.
Deepa serves on the advisory council of the Emergent Fund. She has been an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland in the Asian American Studies and Public Policy programs. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame Law School and Vanderbilt University.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Wyckoff Auditorium, 901 12th Avenue, Seattle, United States
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