All events are free, wheelchair accessible, and open to the public.
The Visiting Speaker Series is co-sponsored by the De Anza Associated Student Body, the Women's History Month Committee, the Asian Heritage Celebration Month Committee, the Asian Pacific American Staff Association, Gente de Quinto Sol and Euphrat Museum of Art. Stories will include the secret history of many Chinese who struggled to cope with laws barring most legal Chinese immigration until the 1960s. Presently she is a Professor of Education and Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has produced more than thirty video works, exhibited nationally and internationally, and has received numerous prestigious awards and fellowships. A second generation Asian American, Zia has been a longtime activist on issues ranging from civil rights and peace to women's rights and countering hate violence.