César Chávez Lecture 2024

Ernesto Villarreal, former Assistant Director of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, presented the college’s 2024 César Chávez Lecture on Wednesday, March 27 in the Maas Center Auditorium. The lecture explored the theme, “Revolutionary Imagination: The Intersection of Faith, Hope, and Love,” which looks at the theory and reality of envisioning meaningful change and actively …

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Lecture 2024

Professor Emeritus John Yelding is the best person for helping us recall the legacy of Martin Luther King, and for engaging us in an interactive exercise of what it means to actively invest ourselves into making King’s Legacy a reality in our time. Alfredo M. GonzalesAssociate Provost Emeritusand Emeritus Dean for International  and Multicultural Education The 2024 Dr. …

My Truth: Rubben Jerome

The Center for Diversity & Inclusion is pleased to release the My Truth Series. This series contains daily blogs and videos that will be released throughout the week of April 29, capturing the lived experiences of diverse students at Hope College. The comments contained in the videos are those of the respective Hope College students …

My Truth: Ashish Duvvuru

The Center for Diversity & Inclusion is pleased to release the My Truth Series. This series contains daily blogs and videos that will be released throughout the week, May 1 through 5, capturing the lived experiences of diverse students at Hope College. The comments contained in the videos are those of the respective Hope College …

My Truth: Miguel Castelan Hernandez

The Center for Diversity & Inclusion is pleased to release the My Truth Series. This series contains daily blogs and videos that will be released throughout the week, May 1 through 5, capturing the lived experiences of diverse students at Hope College. The comments contained in the videos are those of the respective Hope College …

My Truth: Nathan Myotte

The Center for Diversity & Inclusion is pleased to release the My Truth Series. This series contains daily blogs and videos that will be released throughout the week, May 2 through 8, capturing the lived experiences of diverse students at Hope College.  The comments contained in the videos are those of the respective Hope College students …

My Truth: Vicente Bickel

The Center for Diversity & Inclusion is pleased to release the My Truth Series. This series contains daily blogs and videos that will be released throughout the week, May 2 through 8, capturing the lived experiences of diverse students at Hope College.  The comments contained in the videos are those of the respective Hope College students …

Student Featured Art

It all started with friendship.   Over the last year, the Center for Diversity and Inclusion was looking for artwork to display in the Keppel House.  We decided on a variety of artwork pieces that we purchased and hung on the walls.  However, we had a desire to showcase student artwork in the Keppel House. Sungmin …

My Truth: Michael J. Pineda

The Center for Diversity & Inclusion is pleased to release the My Truth Series. This series contains daily blogs and videos that will be released throughout the week, capturing the lived experiences of diverse students at  Hope College.  The comments contained in the videos are those of the respective Hope College students and do not …

My Truth: Kworweinski Lafontant

The Center for Diversity & Inclusion is pleased to release the My Truth Series. This series contains daily blogs and videos that will be released throughout the week, capturing the lived experiences of diverse students at  Hope College.  The comments contained in the videos are those of the respective Hope College students and do not …