First female coach in the NFL, Katie Sowers joins us in conversation. The first woman and openly gay coach to coach in a Super Bowl, former San Francisco 49ers Offensive Assistant Coach Katie Sowers paves the way for equality in the workplace. Coach Sowers is Defensive Coordinator and Director of Operations of the Ottawa University […]
Join us for a conversation with writer and scholar Joseph Allen Boone. Joseph Allen Boone is a professor of English and gender studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author of several books, including The Homoerotics of Orientalism, Tradition Counter of Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction, and Imperial Desire: Dissident […]
íyo'toróvim yaraarkokre 'eyoo'ooxono (We the Caretakers Remember our Land) is a groundbreaking live performance event in which Indigenous oral history meets intercultural music performance. The Gabrielino-Shoshone Council represents an intertribal coalition whose ancestral lands include the present-day site of The Claremont Colleges. This event provides an opportunity to learn about current, local Indigenous experience, to […]
Join us in conversation with Olympic volleyball player and mental health advocate, Victoria Garrick Browne. Victoria Garrick Browne is a TED Talk speaker, mental health advocate, podcast host, and former Division I Athlete who has amassed 2M+ followers across social media where she's known for her unfiltered campaign, #RealPost. Victoria first began sharing her story […]
Get ready to rock as Claremont Colleges students compete in the first-ever Battle of the Bands! The evening will include a performance by the Classics, featuring Sean Beck and Lana Scott, as well as a selection of food trucks prior to the event. Country music artist Lana Scott reached the semifinals in the 21st season of NBC's The […]
Join us in conversation with Anna Nora, Finnish composer and O'Brien visiting professor at Scripps College Anna Nora is a Finnish composer and choir educator with a special interest in choir methodology for children and youth and in choir conducting pedagogy. She works as an instructor in the Helsinki Conservatory of Music conducting children's and […]
Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker, Producer, and Author Matthew Cherry’s 2020 Oscar winning short film, Hair Love, was adapted into a picture book for Penguin Random House and immediately became a New York Times Bestseller and earned nominations for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children and the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Picture […]
Join us in conversation with Megan Phelps-Roper, author of Unfollow: A Memoir Of Loving and Leaving The Westboro Baptist Church Megan Phelps-Roper has championed the power of empathetic dialogue to change minds and connect with those we may disagree with. Her inspiring, moving, and deeply human story of change is also the subject of her […]
Join us in conversation with the Award Winning Author, Podcast Host and Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States. She is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her book Bright Dead Things was […]
Join us for an evening of conversation with Academy Award-Winning Writer, Director, and Playwright Aaron Sorkin Aaron Sorkin made his Broadway playwriting debut at the age of 28 with the military courtroom drama A Few Good Men, for which he received the John Gassner Award as Outstanding New American Playwright. Sorkin made the jump to […]
