Speakers Bureau |
The Human Rights Commission Speakers Bureau exists to make a wide range of educational resources on diversity available and accessible to audiences in Lexington and surrounding areas.
Why a focus on diversity? Maya Angelou has said, “We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value....” The tapestry that is our community is comprised of increasingly diverse threads of race, color, age, sex, national origin, religion, disability, and sexual orientation/gender identity, among other differences. Those threads form the focus of this Speakers Bureau.
In 2006, close to 437,000 people resided in Fayette and surrounding counties. This area is also home to several large corporations and many other businesses, major universities, colleges, school systems, public service organizations and community groups. The Speakers Bureau can provide access to needed resources related to equal opportunity, diversity, reconciliation and inclusion for the widest possible audiences in these strands of our local communities. Those resources, reflected in part by the list that follows, can be adapted to meet the particular missions and needs of a given audience.
Diversity is an essential characteristic in building an inclusive community of people with varied human differences that honor and respect those differences. It is only through education that all people in our community can learn to focus on being a part of the rich, diverse tapestry we can become.