Time: November 9, 2011 from 12pm to 1:30pm
Location: Sockman Lounge – The Interchurch Center (1st Floor) W. 120th Street/Riverside Drive (entrance on Claremont Avenue)
For more information call: 212-870-3518
Anya Cordell, the recipient of the 2010 Spirit of Anne Frank Award, is a speaker, writer, and activist working passionately against any group being designated as “Other”.
She focuses on the universal experience of the injustice of “appearance-ism” (appearance-based judging of ourselves and others), as a core issue to inspire everyone to combat all types of bias. Anya’s journey led her, a Jewish woman, to reach out to strangers after 9/11, founding The Campaign for Collateral Compassion to raise awareness of today’s current chilling climate, fomenting a backlash against Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and others.
She inspires audiences to forge unlikely alliances to combat “anti-Other-ism” with programs, effective strategies, and initiatives tackling “appearance-ism”, teasing, bullying, homophobia, age-ism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, racism, self-hate, and all stereotyping.
Pick up your lunch downstairs in the Interchurch Center cafeteria, and join us in Sockman Lounge for a provocative and fascinating program and conversation.
