Continues on January 20th  
Yakima Campus-Yakima Valley Community College’s 2010-2011 Diversity Series Ecological Sustainability: Communities of Love, Life and Diversity continues on Thursday, January 20, 2011 with Gloria Gonzáles García. All YVCC Diversity Series events are free and open to the public. For a complete list of upcoming Winter & Spring Diversity Series events please see the following.
January 20th: “The Tree of Life”
Gloria Gonzáles García
Parker Room, Yakima Campus, 7:00pm
Gloria Gonzáles García is an artist from Yakima, Washington. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from The Evergreen State College and attended Otis Art Institute of Parson’s School of Design in Los Angeles, California. Her work includes oil pastel drawings, acrylic paintings, installation art, and printmaking.
February 3rd: “Good Food”
Film Showing co-sponsored by YELF
Kendall Hall Auditorium, Yakima Campus, 7:00pm
Something remarkable is happening in the fields and orchards of the Pacific Northwest. Good Food visits producers, farmers’ markets, distributors, stores, restaurants and public officials who are developing a more sustainable food system for all.
The Yakima Environmental Learning Foundation (YELF) is a group of south central Washington community members interested in advancing environmental awareness and education in our region. The mission of YELF is to provide environmental education, interpretive programs, and research, to further the understanding, inspire the appreciation, and foster the preservation of the unique natural heritage found in the Yakima Valley and south central Washington.
February 10th: “Food Justice: The Real Cost of Food”  
Rosalinda Guillen
Parker Room, Deccio Higher Education Center, Yakima Campus, 7:00pm

Rosalinda Guillen, is the founder and current executive director of Community to Community Development. She was born in Texas and moved to Mexico where she was raised until she turned ten, then moved to Washington State. She grew up in a farm worker family in Skagit County. She worked at Skagit State Bank for sixteen years, and then left to organize farm labor for the United Farm Workers (UFW). Through her campaign work she learned about the farm workers organizing in the state’s largest winery, Chateau Ste. Michelle, and eventually became one of the campaigns lead organizers. For two years, Rosalinda ran the grassroots worker organizing campaign which received the first farm worker union contract in the state. In working for social justice in the food system she is fulfilling her dream of honoring her father Jesus Guillen, who worked in the fields as a farm worker throughout the United States until settling the family in La Conner, WA.

Her keynote will address the hidden costs of the production and processing of our nation’s food.
April 11th-16th: “Youth Ideas on Recycling our Planet, our Community, our Lives”
Washington Middle School & GEAR-UP Yakima
Various Times & Locations
April 14th: “Youth Ideas on Recycling our Planet, our Community, our Lives”
Washington Middle School & GEAR-UP Yakima
Parker Room, Deccio Higher Education Center, Yakima Campus, 7:00pm
May 11th: “Rage Against the Machine: The Pacific Northwest and Imperial Oil”  
Winona LaDuke Central Washington University, Room TBA, 3:00pm
May 12th: “Rage Against the Machine: The Pacific Northwest and Imperial Oil”  
Winona LaDuke The Seasons Performance Hall, 101 N. Naches Ave, Yakima, 7:00pm
Winona LaDuke is a Native American activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer. In 1996 and 2000, she ran for vice president as the nominee of the United States Green Party, on a ticket headed by Ralph Nader. An Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg, LaDuke lives and works on the White Earth Reservations.
As program director of the Honor the Earth Fund, she works on a national level to advocate, raise public support, and create funding for frontline native environmental groups.
She also works as founding director for White Earth Land Recovery Project. In 1994, Winona was nominated by Time magazine as one of America’s fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age. She has been awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the BIHA Community Service Award in 1997, the Ann Bancroft Award for Women’s Leadership Fellowship, and the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project.
A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, Winona has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues.
She is a former board member of Greenpeace USA and serves as co-chair of the Indigenous Women’s Network.
In 1998, Ms. Magazine named her Woman of the Year for her work with Honor the Earth.
The 2010/2011 Diversity Series is sponsored by: YVCC Ethnic Programs, Title V Grant, YVCC Moviemento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) Student Club, YVCC TiinMa Student Club, the YVCC Social Sciences Department, Central Washington University, the Yakima Environmental Learning Foundation and Taj Restaurant. For more information: 574-6800 ext. 3151, mcuevas@yvcc.edu or visit www.yvcc.edu.