Richfest Diversity Seminar
Saturday, March 15, 2008
10 am to 4 pm
Richfield Community Center
(70th and Nicollet)

9:30 am – Community Center open to the public

 Informational Booths

• Centennial Commission
• Richfield Human Rights Commission
• Richfield Community Council represented groups
  • Joint Community Police Partnership
  • South Suburban Optimists
  • La Misiσn
  • and more TBD

9:30 am – Spanish translators arrive to greet guests

10:00 am – Upstairs - Speaker - Minnesota Life College (75 capacity seating)  Topics: Learning Disabilities and Independent Living

11:30 am Breakout – open discussions

12:00 noon – Upstairs Panel – GLBT discussion (75 capacity seating)

12:00 noon – Downstairs Speaker – Interfaith Children’s Advocacy Network (75 capacity seating)  Topic: Children and Poverty

1:00 pm – Breakout – open discussions

1:30 pm – Upstairs - Speaker – Bishop Claude James, Faith Pentecostal (75 capacity seating)  Topic: Race and Religion

1:30 pm – Downstairs – Speaker – Geneva Finn - Institute on Race & Poverty (75 capacity seating)  Topic: TBD

3:00 pm – Breakout – open discussions

4:00 pm – Richfield Community Center closes