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September 17, 2009 | UBC Graduate School of Journalism | Vancouver
Guest lecturer on Diversity & Journalism. Repeat of the lecture I have been giving annually.

September 18, 2009 | CBC/AAJA/UBC | Vancouver
I will be moderating a panel I helped to coordinate, in partnership with CBC, the Asian American Journalists Association and the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, on diversity, new media and journalism's future in Canada and the U.S. We'll be discussing innovations in business models, storytelling approaches, knowledge management in newsrooms. Panelists will include Winnie Hwo, News Director at Fairchild TV; Joanne Lee Young, Reporter at The Vancouver Sun (to be confirmed); Alfred Hermida, Professor of Digital Journalism at UBC; Sharon Chan, National President of the AAJA (to be confirmed). More info on Facebook.

October 2, 2009 | Institute of Canadian Citizenship | Toronto
Guest speaking/workshop for the Institute of Canadian Citizenship. I will be speaking at a closed session on Diversity 2.0. This session aims to help ICC's members learn more about diversity and how to work with it as well as be something that they feel is practically relevant to engaging new and established citizens in the practice of inclusive citizenship.

October 8th & 9th, 2009 | VIU | Nanaimo
I'll speaking at a number of sessions at the Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, B.C. I'll be giving a general talk to university students on my career path, role models, hopefully lots of Q&A, targeting international students and recent immigrants (CVI Multicultural Society). Followed by a talk related to media and diversity, then another talk about the "diversity advantage" to business students. For Friday morning, they're hoping to arrange something with Nanaimo District Secondary School so I can speak a younger crowd.