YWCA Racial Justice Summit: Keynotes - Adrienne Keene & Yosimar Reyes

Morning Keynote, Adrienne Keene, is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She holds a doctorate in Culture, Communities and Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on college access for native students and the role of pre-college access programs and student success. Her dissertation is titled: "College Pride, Native Pride, and Education for Nation Building: Portraits of Native Students Navigating Freshman Year." She is also a blogger, author and activist. Afternoon Keynote, Yosimar Reyes, is a nationally acclaimed poet, educator, performance artist and speaker. He was born in Guerrero, Mexico and raised in East San Jose, California. Reyes explores migration and sexuality in his work. The Advocate named Reyes one of the “13 LGBT Latinos Changing the World” and Remezcla named him one of the "10 Up and Coming Latinx Poets You Need to Know". In his YWCA keynote speech, he shares a video he wrote and narrated as well as a performance.