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Rock Creek hosts ‘Crucial Conversations’ on modern American identity
Photos and story by Alfredo V. Moreno
The United States is a culturally diverse nation with residents who can trace their heritage to lands across the globe, and our diversity is projected to continue to increase over the next several decades. Given the differences of race, ethnicity, place, religion, wealth, language, education, and ideology that exist in the U.S., what are the things that unite us a nation? How do we understand what it means to be American and what we hold valuable?
Ellen Knutson
This is the focus of “What Does It Mean to Be American?”, a free conversation with Ellen M. Knutson from 1-2:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 17, Event Center, Rock Creek Campus. The discussion is sponsored by Oregon Humanities.
Based in Portland, Ellen M. Knutson is a research associate at the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, where she is a key member of the research team made up of Russian and U.S. colleagues developing libraries as centers for public dialogue and deliberation. She is an adjunct assistant professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois where she teaches a course on community engagement to students in the online master’s program.
Refreshments will be provided and RSVPs are welcome, but not required. To attend, email carol.gonzalez@pcc.edu.
About Alfredo V. Moreno
Alfredo has served PCC's westside communities in both a community engagement and public relations capacity since September of 2018. Born in the border city of El Paso, Texas, Alfredo grew up in the timber town of Roseburg in Southern Oregon... more »