Community College League of California hosted EQUITY 2016 – Address Implement Move Students Forward at the Riverside Convention Center on March 8, 2016 with featured keynote speaker Jose Antonio Vargas.
About Jose Antonio Vargas
Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and filmmaker whose work centers on the changing American identity. He is the founder of Define American, a non-profit media and culture organization that seeks to elevate the conversation around immigration and citizenship in America, and the executive editor of #EmergingUS, a multimedia news platform he conceived focusing on race, immigration, and the complexities of multiculturalism. A partnership with the Los Angeles Times, #EmergingUS will launch in June 2015. Also this year, MTV will air, as part of its “Look Different” campaign, White People, a television special he directed on what it means to be young and white in America.