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Observances FY2018headline bar **Fiscal Year 2018 Observances:** **October 2017** National Hispanic Heritage Month Video "Hispanic Influence" **November 2017** Ms. Jen Coppoc, Senior Lecture in American Indian Studies at ISU spoke on Nov 9, 2017 **December 2017** No observance **January 2018** The Volunteer Center of Story County (http://www.vcstory.org/) The YMCA of Ames (https://www.ywcaames.org/volunteer) National Day of Service (https://www.nationalservice.gov/mlkday) **February 2018** Krystal J. Gladden from African American Museum of Iowa shared a presentation "Our Sisters of Many Hats" **March 2018** Women's history month video "Emma Goldman; an Exceedingly Dangerous Woman" **April 2018** Video presentation of "Irena Sendler: In the name of their mothers" **May 2018** Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Speaker Dr. Nakadate -- Japanese Internment Camp, memoir Mental Health Month -- Slide Series "Famous People with Mental Illness" by Lisa Allison 
 **June 2018** Caribbean American Heritage month, watched Black in Latin America series, Haiti & the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided PTSD Ted Talk Video LGBTQ+, Frontline presentation of "Growing Up Trans" **July 2018** No events **August 2018** Women's Equality Day observance speaker; "The role of women as voters in elections historically and in 2018" by Kelly Winfrey of the ISU Catt Center **September 2018**


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