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Come celebrate the first event of Reed College's inaugural Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed and traci kato-kiriyama!

Reed College is honored to host these speakers for a discussion about how the importance of highlighting and openly discussing the experiences of Muslims in the Asian and Pacific Islander community, and how the legacy of Japanese internment is being reflected events facing this community today.

Speaker bios:
Tanzila "Taz" Ahmed is an activist, storyteller, and politico based in Los Angeles. She currently is a Campaign Strategist at the Asian American new media organizing group 18MillionRising. Taz was honored in 2016 as White House Champion of Change for AAPI Art and Storytelling. She is cohost of The #GoodMuslimBadMuslim Podcast that has been featured in Oprah Magazine, Wired, and Buzzfeed as well as live shows recorded at South by Southwest and the White House.

traci kato-kiriyama is: a writer/actor and one half of the award-winning PULLproject Ensemble; director/co-founder of Tuesday Night Project - presenter of the Tuesday Night Cafe series (currently the longest-running Asian American-produced mic series in the country); and Writ Large Press author of a new book still in the birthing process. She has been presented as a performer, poet, theatre deviser, guest lecturer, speaker, facilitator, emcee, and Artist-in-Residence at innumerable venues from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington and Hawai'i to Philadelphia, Florida, New York and Toronto.

Poetry Keynote by Fatimah Asghar on Monday, April 1, in Eliot Chapel 

Come out to the chapel to see Fatimah Asghar, a nationally touring poet, screenwriter, educator and performer. Her debut book of poetry, If They Come For Us, captures the experiences being a young Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America. In experimental forms and language both lyrical and raw, Asghar seamlessly braids together marginalized people’s histories with her own understanding of identity, place, and belonging. She is the co-creator and writer of Emmy nominated web series, Brown Girls, a web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Social media: @asgharthegrouch

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