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Description : How does Turkey's crisis with the US influence international politics in the Middle East? What results does the US expect to get from the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran? What are the chances of open military confrontation between Israel and Iran in 2019? Omaha native, Kate (Weitz) Bauer, returns to share her global experiences and expertise. She currently resides in Washington, D.C. where she is the Blumenstein-Katz Family Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy in addition to serving as an adjunct associate professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. Ms. Bauer has previously served as the financial attaché in Jerusalem and the Gulf. She is a former nonproliferation graduate fellow at the Department of Energy’s National Security Nuclear Security Administration and received her master’s degree from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

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Description : How does Turkey's crisis with the US influence international politics in the Middle East? What results does the US expect to get from the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran? What are the chances of open military confrontation between Israel and Iran in 2019? Omaha native, Kate (Weitz) Bauer, returns to share her global experiences and expertise. She currently resides in Washington, D.C. where she is the Blumenstein-Katz Family Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy in addition to serving as an adjunct associate professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. Ms. Bauer has previously served as the financial attaché in Jerusalem and the Gulf. She is a former nonproliferation graduate fellow at the Department of Energy’s National Security Nuclear Security Administration and received her master’s degree from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

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Description : "How do people become homegrown terrorists?" For the past decade, Dr. Gina Ligon has researched how hate groups and terrorist organizations function and recruit members. She is an associate professor of management in the UNO College of Business Administration and works in The Center for Collaboration Science.

Topics: Raise Awareness, Theatre and Cinema

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Description : The Inter-tribal Student Council, Tribal Management and Emergency Services, Office of Multicultural Affairs, American Multicultural Student Agency, Vision Maker Media are proud to host the 6th Annual Native American Film Festival

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Description : "My Life with the Castros: One Scholar’s Unlikely Journey." Jonathan Benjamin Alvarado, Ph.D., is the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs at the University of Nebraska Omaha. As the chief student affairs officer, he oversees diversity, inclusion, and equity issues on campus. This includes the divisions of Veterans and Military Affairs, Multicultural Affairs, Academic and Career Development, and Gender and Sexuality Resources. He has been instrumental in the creation of scholarship and pathway programs at UNO serving first-generation college students and other under-represented groups. He is also a Professor of Political Science, with an emphasis on U.S. Foreign Policy, International Development and National Security. For the past 30 years, Benjamin-Alvarado has conducted research related to Cuba’s attempts to address energy development issues, including it nuclear energy program. This has taken him to the island over 30 times, where he has engaged and worked with the entirety of Cuba’s leadership including former President Fidel Castro and other members of the ruling family.

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Description : n 1988, the National Coalition of Juvenile Justice State Advisory Groups authored a report which shed light on the extent of the disproportional makeup of minority youth confined in secure facilities across the country. The groundbreaking report lead to Congressional action mandating states participating in Formula Grants programs to address efforts to reduce the disproportion. This Summit provides an opportunity to engage community members, stakeholders, families, and youth in discussions lead by subject matter experts to identify strategies to reduce disproportionate minority contact (DMC).

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Description : Cory Metcalf is an expert in interactive media and sound. Find out about his role as a support manager for DSP software company, Cycling ’74, and his experiences with the Pilchuck Glass School as part of performance duo NoiseFold. Attendees get the opportunity to hear and see unique demonstrations of recent sound work.

Topics: Refugees, Raise Awareness

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Description : A panel discussion about issues surrounding immigration and education.

Topics: STEM/STEM Education, Literacy, Neighborhood Revitalization

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Description : Join educators, librarians, coders, designers, scientists, artists, technologists, and others at Mozilla’s Global Sprint, June 1-2, 2017! Global Sprint is designed to be a fast-paced, two-day event to hack and build projects for a healthy Internet. Held at the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center, Global Sprint in Omaha will focus on the creation of a new project, Omaha Parks. The city has no user-friendly portal for aiding the discovery of parks, or for searching or filtering parks based on their amenities. Omaha Parks will seek to bridge that gap by building an interactive map to aid citizens in discovering parks that fit their needs and wants. Omaha Parks is an open source project and values open collaboration. Anyone wishing to take part in Global Sprint is free to come by anytime and stay for as short or as long as they’d like. And the collaboration continues afterward on Github; if you’re unable to attend, discover the community online. Tickets and more information about the event can be found online here. Click to visit the Github community