Office of Institutional Diversity Speakers Bureau

The Office of Institutional Diversity Speakers Bureau consists of outstanding ECU faculty/staff that are currently engaging in diversity related research. The faculty/staff featured on these pages are dynamic, have a passion for their work, and are committed to high-quality intellectual research/writing/presentations.

These faculty/staff will be available speakers for the ECU community as well as selected Pitt community organizations on a range of different diversity-specific topics. We invite you to browse through the list of topics and discover the spectrum of areas that ECU faculty/staff has expertise in.  

If you would like to invite one of the speakers to be a guest-lecturer please email diversity@ecu.edu.

Derek Alderman ~ Civil Rights Memorials, African Americans and diversity in heritage tourism and public representation of the past, and more!

Eric Bailey ~ Ethnic Health, Health Disparities, Cultural Competence Training and more!

Gloria Bailey ~ Youth Expressions, Diversity in Communication

Michael Bassman ~ "Immersing ECU Students in a Latino School: Erasing Prejudice"

Rosina Chia ~ Global Diversity

Seodial Frank Deena ~ Caribbean Literature Theory and Culture

Ylce Irizzary ~ Latina Literature

Sitawa Kimuna ~ Population & Development Issues, Aging, Health, and Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa

Lee Maril ~ Immigration

Amy McMillan-Capehart ~ Workforce Diversity, Affirmative Action, and Climate/Culture

Linda Mooney ~ Diversity/Gender

Crystal Muhammad ~ Minorities in Education

Rebecca Powers ~ Diversity/Gender

David Siegel ~ Social Justice

Lathan Turner ~ Diversity

Cecelia Valrie ~ Sickle Cell Disease, and Sleep in children & adolescents

Beth Velde ~ Quality of Life-Elderly African Americans

Daniel Wong ~ Disability & International Rehabilitation

Ken Wyatt ~ Diversity