2022 Program Page
2022
Victoria Garrick| Keynote Address
Macky Auditorium | Wednesday, April 6 at 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Keynote Address: The Hidden Opponent
Victoria Garrick shares the journey of how she battled and overcame anxiety and depression, and the path she walked to find healing and strength. Students leave her talk feeling connected, empowered, and with tangible tools to address and improve their mental health.
Wednesday, April 6
The Road to Hunger is Paved with Good Intentions
UMC Center Ballroom
Do charity and food programs create food insecurity?
Speakers:
A’Dae Romero-Briones
Maggie Mitchell Salem
Marc White
Moderator: Ann Cooper
Human Rights: What’s Next?
UMC East Ballroom
Speakers:
John Heffernan
Shalini Nataraj
Elizabeth Shackelford
Moderator: Nikhil Mankekar
Values and Ethics in the Workplace
UMC West Ballroom
Description: Create your culture or it creates you.
Speakers:
Kamran Elahian
Rachel Faller
Donna Sollenberger
Matt Stinchcomb
Moderator: Blair Young
Surviving Climate Change
Macky Auditorium
Description: The Retreating Coastline Dealing with coastal retreat impact on ecology, society, economy, and national security.
Speakers:
Bek Christensen
Maggie Fox
Lamont Hamilton
Moderator: Max Boykoff
Predicting and Tracking Pandemics
UMC Center Ballroom
Description: How to maintain a grounded perspective in the midst of inevitable fears.
Speakers:
Dr. Mark Kissler
Robin Thompson
Moderator: Alexander Pham
The Life of a Whistleblower: The Personal Risks of Reporting the Truth
UMC 235
Description: Does corporate suppression of science hurtscientists and society?
Speakers:
Tyrone Hayes
Sharon Lerner
Jon Lundgren
Jevin West
Moderator: Amy Lewis
Public Art and Awareness
UMC East Ballroom
Description: Interactive Public Art: Murals, Posters, Podcasts,Pop-up Installations and Exhibitions.
Speakers:
Millie Chen
Thomas “Detour” Evans
Asher Jay
Danielle SeeWalker
Moderator: Mandy Vink
Public Art and Awareness
UMC East Ballroom
Description: Interactive Public Art: Murals, Posters, Podcasts, Pop-up Installations and Exhibitions.
Speakers:
Millie Chen
Thomas “Detour” Evans
Asher Jay
Danielle SeeWalker
Moderator: Mandy Vink
The Power Behind Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and NFTs
UMC West Ballroom
Description: What is the climate impact of digital currency andmining on our limited power resources?
Speakers:
Peter Kelly Detweiler
Moses Ma
Jernej Pangersic
Moderator: Andy Franklin
The Magic of Creativity
CASE Chancellor’s Auditorium
Description: The Magic of Creativity What is it, who has it, why we need it.
Speakers:
Elena Gaby
Brad Lancaster
Ty Tashiro
Moderator: Nicole Speer
Graveyard of Empires
Macky Auditorium
Description: Why can’t anybody seem to win in Afghanistan?
Speakers:
Dave Rank
Elizabeth Shackelford
Ross Wilson
Heather Hurlburt
Moderator: Gregory D. Young
Why Didn’t We Know This Already?
UMC 235
Description: An intergenerational panel with High School Students and CWA Speakers considering how historical moments
could have been changed by more humane and just decisions.
Speakers:
Leo Glaze
Kara Viesca
Shawn D. Walton
Moderator: Ami Diatta
Rethinking Influence
UMC West Ballroom
Description: Cracking the Code on Effective Influencer Marketing Strategies
Speakers:
Amanda Russell
Moderator: Doyle Albee
How to Thrive in a Pressure-Cooker Environment
Old Main Chapel
Description: The personal costs of success when navigating a business.
Speakers:
Kamran Elahian
Rachel Faller
Matija Goljar
Eliot Peper
Moderator: John Kelley
Feeding the World Without Killing the Planet: What is Regenerative Agriculture?
Macky Auditorium
Description: Addressing climate change while restoring biodiversity and providing nutritious, affordable food.
Speakers:
Jon Lundgren
Rhythm and Words
UMC 235
Description: An improvisational panel with CWA speakers collaborating to create magic.
Speakers:
Leo Glaze
Nikhil Mankekar
Michael D. McCarty
Ed Roberson
Michael Spencer
Moderator: Esther Omegba
Discovering Creative Communities
UMC East Ballroom
Description: The myriad ways we build community through artistic expression and interaction.
Speakers:
Forrest Cortes
Lamont Hamilton
George Otieno
Danielle SeeWalker
Moderator: Sandra Firmin
OMG...How Did I Get Here?
UMC West Ballroom
Description: Stories of entrepreneurial highs and wild rides.
Speakers:
Rachel Faller
Jodie King
Vamsi Sistla
Matt Stinchcomb
Moderator: Gavriella Schuster
Crafting the Original Idea
Old Main Chapel
Description: The germination of an idea; when, where, why it begins, won’t go away and comes to fruition.
Speakers:
Teresa Eyring
Asher Jay
Emma Needell
Moderator: Bob Morehouse
Ebert Interruptus Film Series I: JAWS
UMC 235
Speakers:
Josh Larsen
Calling Bullshit: Telling Truth From Fiction in the Information Age
UMC Center Ballroom
Speakers:
Renee DiResta
Eliot Peper
Ty Tashiro
Jevin West
Moderator: Leysia Palen
Why Critical Race Theory is such a Topic
UMC 235
Description: What CRT is and isn’t and why it’s gotten so political and contentious.
Speakers:
Leo Glaze
Justin Moore
Kara Viesca
Moderator: Jennifer Ho
The New Business of Media: How ShouldNews Be Funded?
UMC East Ballroom
Description: How can the new media world be both profitable and credible?
Speakers:
Jodie King
Jack Powers
Carl Quintanilla
Moderator: Stacy Feldman
Has the Door Closed for Immigrants?
UMC West Ballroom
Description: How are recent mass exoduses being handled? Does the immigrant question have an answer?
Speakers:
Rick Barton
Zohore Elahian
John Heffernan
Maggie Mitchell Salem
Moderator: Lorraine Bayard de Volo
“Out Out Brief Candle”: Protecting Artists Against Burnout
Old Main Chapel
Description: How artists manage burnout when stress or tedium threatens to extinguish the creative spark.
Speakers:
Millie Chen
Elena Gaby
Matija Goljar
Barbara Nordstrom-Loeb
Moderator: Gwen Burak
Food as Medicine: Healing our Soils, Healing Ourselves
Hale 270
Description: How artists manage burnout when stress or tedium threatens to extinguish the creative spark.
Speakers:
Nicole Masters
Tina Owens
A’Dae Romero-Briones
Marc White
Moderator: Eric Skokan
Fringe Innovations
CASE Chancellor’s Auditorium
Description: Navigating the future
Speakers:
Peter Kelly Detweiler
Kamran Elahian
Rachel Rath
Jake Sally
Moderator: Dan Caruso
Thursday, April 7
The Dark Web: Why Is It a Scary Place?
Macky Auditorium
Speakers:
Renee DiResta
Laura Harder
Jernej Pangersic
Moderator: Aaron Brockett
Racism 101: The Language of Racism
UMC Center Ballroom
Description: Everything you want know about racism but are afraid to ask.
Speakers:
Leo Glaze
KangJae “Jerry” Lee
Danielle SeeWalker
Kara Viesca
Moderator: Michele D. Simpson
Water: Safeguarding the Lifeblood of Our Planet
UMC 235
Description: Protecting water from chemical contamination and using water wisely.
Speakers:
Bek Christensen
Tyrone Hayes
Brad Lancaster
A’Dae Romero-Briones
Moderator: Peter Wadden
Forced Out: A Conversation around Human Displacement
UMC East Ballroom
Description: The realities of human displacement caused by war, climate change, natural disasters, and economic turmoil.
Speakers:
John Heffernan
Shalini Nataraj
Maggie Mitchell Salem
Donna Sollenberger
Moderator: Kurt Firnhaber
The Future of Filmmaking
UMC West Ballroom
Description: How breakthrough technologies are changing what films are and how they are made, distributed, and experienced.
Speakers:
Lamont Hamilton
Emma Needell
Jack Powers
Jake Sally
Moderator: Pax
Still the Least Dangerous Branch?
UMC Center Ballroom
Description: Reflections on the Supreme Court and the Constitution
Speakers:
Akhil Amar
David Cole
Mark Stern
Moderator: Suzette Malveaux
War in Ukraine: The Tragedy Unfolding and What’s Next
UMC 235
Speakers:
Maurizio Geri
Heather Hurlburt
Margo Squire
Ross Wilson
Moderator: Gene Hayworth
Valuing Digital Assets
UMC East Ballroom
Description: Where to invest focus and money in the evolving mishmash of conventional and digital assets.
Speakers:
Jodie King
Eliot Peper
Carl Quintanilla
Nancy Wang
Moderator: Steve Rosenblum
The Hard Stuff Unplugged
UMC West Ballroom
Description: Why failure matters and lessons learned.
Speakers:
Kamran Elahian
Vamsi Sistla
Matt Stinchcomb
Robin Thompson
Moderator: Moses Ma
BIPOC Youth Activism
CASE Chancellor’s Auditorium
Description: Young activists and their allies taking on the social issues facing the United States.
Speakers:
Wisdom Cole
Forrest Cortes
Elena Gaby
Tyrone Hayes
Shawn D. Walton
Moderator: Adrian Salazar
Climate Change: Is an Answer in the Soil Beneath Our Feet?
UMC Center Ballroom
Description: How can it become a solution?
Speakers:
Bek Christensen
Jon Lundgren
Nicole Masters
Tina Owens
Moderator: Brett KenCairn
What’s the Problem with the US Healthcare System?
UMC 235
Description: What’s the Fix? Improving access and quality, while reducing the overall cost of healthcare in the US.
Speakers:
Christian Conte
George Otieno
Donna Sollenberger
Moderator: Steve Quach
Art as Truth-Telling
UMC East Ballroom
Description: The arts can reach the unreachable, give voice to the unsayable and shout the unspoken.
Speakers:
Millie Chen
Rachel Faller
Elena Gaby
Michael D. McCarty
Barbara Nordstrom-Loeb
Moderator: Nick Forster
Psychology of Comedians
UMC West Ballroom
Description: What’s so funny...and why?
Speakers:
Asher Jay
Michael Spencer
Ty Tashiro
Moderator: Chip
Voter’s Rights, Democracy and Racism Denise Lieberman
UMC Center Ballroom
Description: Why limiting access to the polls impacts marginalized communities, undermining democracy.
Speakers:
Justin Moore
Mark Stern
Moderator: Molly Fitzpatrick
How U.S Foreign Relations Affects International Business
Chemistry 140
Description: What role do the American diplomats play in international business?
Speakers:
Peter Kelly Detweiler
Dave Rank
Ross Wilson
Moderator: Alan Rogers
Is My Computer Psychic? How Targeted Advertising Works
UMC 235
Description:How is big data and data harvesting being used to predict and/or dictate consumer behavior?
Speakers:
Renee DiResta
Joshua Rhodes
Amanda Russell
Jevin West
Moderator: Scott Schaefer
Business Building in the Metaverse
UMC East Ballroom
Description: How businesses are sizing up the metaverse and you.
Speakers:
Matija Goljar
Jodie King
Carl Quintanilla
Gavriella Schuster
Digging for Dollars
UMC West Ballroom
Description: How to know when, where, and what kinds of funds are best to grow your start-up.
Speakers:
Shalini Nataraj
Shawn D. Walton
Nitida Wongthipkongka
Moderator: Brad Bernthal
Pop Culture: What’s Left to Talk ǸԹ?
Old Main Chapel
Description: Contemporary issues in pop culture with CU graduate students.
Speakers:
Shalini Nataraj
Ediz Ozelkan
Isabella Pena
Nandi Pointer
Emma St. Lawrence
Moderator: Samira Rajabi
Ebert Interruptus Film Series II: JAWS
Macky Auditorium
Description: This Keynote Address is made possible by the support of Neil and Judy Bicknell.
Speakers:
Josh Larsen
The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation Over the Centuries
UMC Center Ballroom
Description: This Keynote Address is made possible by the support of Neil and Judy Bicknell.
Speakers:
Akhil Amar
Moderator: Hal Bruff
How Effective Philanthropy Works
UMC West Ballroom
Description: Panelists discuss approaches they use to ensure the gifts they make truly have an impact.
Speakers:
Kamran Elahian
Wendy Guillies
John Heffernan
Moderator: Tatiana Hernandez
(Un)Fair and (Un)Balanced: How Chemical
CASE Chancellor’s Auditorium
Description: Companies Control the World Food System Our planet, our bodies, our choice.
Speakers:
Tyrone Hayes
Jon Lundgren
Tina Owens
Marc White
Moderator: Alan Lewis
Back to the Future: Regenerating Indigenous and Traditional Farming
Old Main Chapel
Description: Regenerating and relearning from the past.
Speakers:
Brad Lancaster
Nicole Masters
A’Dae Romero-Briones
Moderator: Marissa Pulaski
International Takes: Students Share their Countries with CWA
UMC Aspen Rooms
Description: The Office of International Student Academic Success showcases undergraduate students’ research that topics related to world affairs in connection to their background as international students via a poster presentation.
Speakers:
Ziwei Cheng
Chan Kim
Basma Al Mutawa
Haonan Xu
Moderator: Roberto Arruda
Navigating the International Landscape Post-Trump
UMC 235
Description: Experts share their evaluations of the Biden’s administration’s handling of foreign affairs post-Trump.
Speakers:
Heather Hurlburt
Rick Barton
Dave Rank
Elizabeth Shackelford
Margo Squire
Moderator: Brendan Connell
Filmmaking with a Female Gaze
Visual Arts Center 1B20
Description: Female filmmakers share their experiences in a male-dominated field.
Speakers:
Elena Gaby
Katrina Miller
Emma Needell
Moderator: Jan Burton
An Artist and the Poet Who Inspired Him
Old Main Chapel
Speakers:
Ed Roberson
Lamont Hamilton
Moderator: Michael Anthony
Cashing In: The Branding of College Athletes
UMC Center Ballroom
Description: College athletes have a new opportunity to profit from their personal brands.
Speakers:
Rick George
Carl Quintanilla
Moderator: Connor Lacey
Is Being an Influencer Really a Career Path?
UMC West Ballroom
Description: How do you go from developing a viral video to a successful online commercial business?
Speakers:
Christian Conte
Jodie King
Eliot Peper
Amanda Russell
Moderator: David Spiro
CWA Jazz Concert
Macky Auditorium
Description: A world-class experience organized by CWA Musical Dave Grusin. Director Brad Goode with special guest Dave Grusin. Grusin is a CU alumnus and 10-time Grammy award-winning composer, arranger and pianist.
Speakers:
Bijoux Barbosa
Don Grusin
Mike Marlier
Ernie Watts
Musical Director: Brad Goode
Friday, April 8
Climate Change: Threats to Biodiversity
Macky Auditorium
Description: Addressing threats to biodiversity, ecosystems and ecosystem services important to human well-being
Speakers:
Bek Christensen
Maggie Fox
Jon Lundgren
Paula MaBee
Moderator: Matt Stinchcomb
Data Privacy Rights: Who Cares and Why?
UMC Center Ballroom
Description: Addressing threats to biodiversity, ecosystems and ecosystem services important to human well-being.With the global digitalization of everything we use in our lives, is data privacy still a concern?
Speakers:
Laura Harder
Moses Ma
Debora Plunkett
Jevin West
Moderator: Mark Wallach
Who’s Top Dog?
UMC 235
Description: Is the international landscape unipolar, bipolar, tripolar, something else?
Speakers:
Rick Barton
Dave Rank
Elizabeth Shackelford
Margo Squire
Ross Wilson
Moderator: Thomas Zeiler
Forced to be a Parent
Humanities 1B50
Description: How changes to abortion laws will impact society, particularly women.
Speakers:
Shalini Nataraj
Stephen Scott
Mark Stern
Moderator: Josie Heath
So, You Want to Make a Movie?
UMC East Ballroom
Description: What is the process from idea to post-production?
Speakers:
Jeta Amata
Elena Gaby
Josh Larsen
Moderator: Eric Abramson
The Green Ghetto: Transforming Urban
UMC West Ballroom
Description: Urban agriculture can alleviate poverty, provide healthy food and heal communities.
Speakers:
Forrest Cortes
Brad Lancaster
Justin Moore
Shawn D. Walton
Marc White
Moderator: Roberto Meze
Funding Art Through Technology
Hale 270
Description: Urban agriculture can alleviate poverty, provide healthy food and heal communities. Streaming, NFT’s, and other ways to generate income for the arts.
Speakers:
Teresa Eyring
Jodie King
Jack Powers
Moderator: Fran Zankowski
Alone: A Son’s Perspective about Solitary Confinement and Prison Reform.
Macky Auditorium
Speakers:
Larry Hoover, Jr.
Justin Moore
Moderator: Wisdom Cole
Political Polarization and the Constitution
UMC Center Ballroom
Description: Solitary Confinement and Prison Reform by Colorado’s Attorney General.
Speakers:
Judge Terry Fox
David French
Raymond Gifford
Michele Goodwin
Moderator: Phil Weiser
Climate Change: A Global Challenge with Local Opportunities
UMC 235
Description: Solitary Confinement and Prison Reform.
Speakers:
Max Boykoff
Michael Jacobs
Susie Strife
Heidi VanGenderen
Moderator: Alice Madden
Poland and Hungary : 1, European Union : 0
UMC West Ballroom
Description: Beyond aesthetics, is art a public good? Can it or does it DO good?
Speakers:
Millie Chen
Asher Jay
Michael D. McCarty
Michael Spencer
Moderator: Matt Chasansky
This Is (Not) Who We Are: Being Black in ǸԹ
CASE Chancellor’s Auditorium
Description: With film clips, Katrina Miller, the Narrator and Moderator: Director of this powerful documentary, will lead a
discussion about ǸԹ’s progressive self-image compared to the lived experiences of its Black residents.
Speakers:
Thomas Windham
Katrina Miller
All Speech is Free, Some More Than Others
UMC Center Ballroom
Description: Social media’s role in regulating incendiary speech.
Speakers:
Matija Goljar
George Otieno
Debora Plunkett
Jack Powers
Moderator: Julie Marshall
Diversity and Inclusion in Outdoor Recreation, Nature and Conservation
UMC 235
Description: Racism and the great outdoors: past, present, and future.
Speakers:
Forrest Cortes
Marina LaGrave
KangJae “Jerry” Lee
Dawn O’Neal
Shawn D. Walton
Moderator: Marina LaGrave
Build Your Venture and Put it to the Test
UMC East Ballroom
Description: Maximize your success with the help of accelerators, start-up events and pitch contests.
Speakers:
Tjasa Ban
Wendy Guillies
Taylor McLemore
Nitida Wongthipkongka
Moderator: David Brown
Silent Farm: Saving our Birds, Bees, Frogs, and Ourselves
UMC West Ballroom
Description: Our food system is leading us to mass extinction. How can we work with nature?
Speakers:
Adrian Carper
Jon Lundgren
Nicole Masters
Moderator: Sharon Collinge
The Impacts of Sports on Mental Health
Old Main Chapel
Description: Our food system is leading us to mass extinction. How can we work with nature?
Speakers:
Christian Conte
Trey Ortega
Amanda Russell
Petra Škarja
Moderator: Marina Dmukhovskaya
Gaming as a Generation
Visual Arts Center 1B20
Description: Our food system is leading us to mass extinction. How can we work with nature? What effect has gaming had on the Ready Player One, Metaverse, WTF? generations?
Speakers:
Emma Needell
Jernej Pangersic
Nancy Wang
Moderator: Nick Remple
Speaking Truth to Power
Macky Auditorium
Description: How to take action when things feel wrong.
Speakers:
Leo Glaze
John Heffernan
Eliot Peper
Elizabeth Shackelford
Moderator: Mary Kate Rejouis
Does the Supreme Court Need Reforming?
UMC Center Ballroom
Description: Focused on the wisdom of expanding the supreme court, limiting the terms of justices, etc.
Speakers:
Michele Goodwin
Dahlia Lithwick
Mark Stern
Moderator: Scott Skinner-Thompson
The Glass Ceiling: Journey to the Top
UMC East Ballroom
Description: A multigenerational panel of women leaders discuss their experiences working up the ladder and give advice on how young women can do the same.
Speakers:
Tina Owens
Gavriella Schuster
Nancy Wang
Petra Škarja
Moderator: Jane Brautigam
Come on Back Pinochet
UMC West Ballroom
Description: Is Latin America exchanging old populism for new authoritarianism? Can parallels be drawn to Europe?
Speakers:
Rick Barton
Maurizio Geri
Heather Hurlburt
Moderator: Andy Baker
Curating Activism: “Art Becomes My Activism”
Old Main Chapel
Description: Artists discuss how their art reflects and responds to cultural and social change.
Speakers:
Asher Jay
Katrina Miller
Danielle SeeWalker
Ross Taylor
Marc White
Moderator: Kathleen McCormick
Vision of the Future: The Electric Power Grid in 2050
Hale 270
Description: The opportunities, challenges and threats in the future of power.
Speakers:
Peter Kelly Detweiler
Raymond Gifford
Laura Harder
Joshua Rhodes
Moderator: Alice Jackson
Ebert Interruptus Film Series III: JAWS
Macky Auditorium
Speakers:
Josh Larsen
What We Talk ǸԹ When We Talk ǸԹ Race
UMC Center Ballroom
Description: Discovering what is essential in discussions of difference.
Speakers:
Briahna Gray
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Moderator: Benjamin Teitelbaum
Gerrymandering and the 2022 Elections
UMC 235
Description: Artists discuss how their art reflects and responds to cultural and social change.
Speakers:
Olivia Mendoza
Mario Nicolais
Mark Stern
Moderator: Brett Ford
What’s Coming In the Next 5 Years
UMC East Ballroom
Speakers:
Renee DiResta
Tina Owens
Donna Sollenberger
Robin Thompson
Kara Viesca
Moderator: Danica Powell
Unjust Imprisonment
UMC West Ballroom
Description: Panelists with varying experiences with the U.S. criminal justice system discuss unjust practices that lead to wrongful convictions or high rates of incarceration.
Speakers:
Wisdom Cole
Christian Conte
Justin Moore
Christina Swarns
Moderator: Michael Dougherty
Art as Therapy
Old Main Chapel
Description: Art’s contribution to mental health, for both the audience and the artist.
Speakers:
Millie Chen
Barbara Nordstrom-Loeb
Gavriella Schuster
Michael Spencer
Ty Tashiro
Moderator: Mark Villarreal
Motus Theater: Boundless Truth
Old Main Chapel
Description: Black women discuss the impact of incarceration on women and children.
Speakers:
Leslie Herod
Deborah Richardson
Ernie Watts
Moderator: Terri Wash
CWA Festival of Short Films
Visual Arts Center 1B20
Moderator: Jamie Krutz