As a coordinator of the Empathy event, I can say:  there is an immense variety of speakers and presenters, from our invited keynote speaker from Montreal and our local consultant running workshops in nonviolent communication (who is also a speech pathologist), through the local poets, faculty members from CSS, from across the UMD campus, the North Central Windows Project for survivors of domestic violence, the Echoes of Peace choir, the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial board, and the UMD Multicultural Center.

Several dozen people from across the campus and community have organized this conversation.  We can't promise to "teach about diversity."  We want to begin to understand the way to approach diversity with respect as we move forward.  None of us knows the answers to move us forward until we begin the conversation, and empathy seems a good starting point.  We hope that a diversity of voices will join us.