Article: Drop-In Interview with Barack Obama
10/06
Feature
interview with U.S. Senator Barack Obama by Stewart Ikeda and
Alexia Robinson of Black College Wire has been released as a free
drop-in article for use by newspapers and Web publications
especially addressing college students. The article is part of a
nonpartisan GOTV effort promoted by The Black Collegian Magazine
in collaboration with the non-profit journalism education
organization, Black College Wire. It comprises an original interview
with Senator Obama discussing political participation by Black
college students and youth voters generally, as well as companion
charts prepared by the non-profit, nonpartisan research
organization, CIRCLE: The Center for Information and Research on
Civic Learning and Engagement at
www.civicyouth.org.
Article: Building Global Skills 10/06
Feature article on global skills-building and the increasing
demand for
employees with international work and study abroad experience
will run on the Wall Street Journal's
CollegeJournal.com site
starting this month. The feature arose from conversations with
multiple companies and government agencies about their diversity
recruitment strategies especially in relation to foreign language
and cultural fluencies.
Conference: National Association of Colleges and
Employers 5/06
Come meet Stewart Ikeda at the NACE Conference in Anaheim from
May 30-July 3. Ikeda will be at the conference representing
IMDiversity and THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine, which celebrates its
35th anniversary in a special awards ceremony at the conference. For
more information, see NACE
site.
Workshop: UW-Milwaukee Writers
Conference 4/06
Stewart Ikeda will lead a special
workshop focused on "Multicultural Writing" at the 2006 Annual Writers
Festival sponsored by the UW-Milwaukee School of Continuing
Education on April 28-30, 2006.
A follow up to a similar session at the conference last year, this
hands-on writing session explores issues that creative writers face
in crafting richly multivocal, pertinent work. While there will be
some discussion of issues of multicultural publishing and marketing,
the emphasis is on creative issues: exploring characterization,
social settings and audience expectations through discussion and
exercises.
Advanced Ordering for Mixed
Anthology Now Available -
March 2006
Stewart Ikeda's short story "Shadey" will
appear in a new anthology,
MIXED: An Anthology of Short Stories on the Multiracial Experience,
edited by Chandra Prasad to be published in late 2006 by W.W.
Norton.
Speaking at Asian American Studies Teach-In in
Chicago
- 2PM -
March 5, 2006
Stewart Ikeda will
appear at an panel discussion at a
Asian American Studies Teach-In in Chicago presented by the
Chicago Japanese American
Citizens League, the Japanese American Service Committee (www.jasc-chicago.org),
and the Asian American Coalition Committee (http://www2.uic.edu/stud_orgs/pol/aacc/).
Fellow speakers include Karen
Su, Brandon Mita, Eric Salcedo, and Judy Wu. The teach-in takes place at the
Japanese American Service Committee Bldg., 4427 N Clark Street.
Stewart Ikeda Named an Acting Editor for The
Black Collegian Magazine after Publisher's Evacuation from New
Orleans
Stewart Ikeda has assumed a role as acting editor of
The Black Collegian Magazine, a nationally circulated,
careers-oriented magazine for the African American student college
market currently celebrating its 35th anniversary. As the
Milwaukee-based Vice President for the publisher IMDiversity, Inc.,
Ikeda temporarily assumed stewardship over a variety of company
operations when its staffed was dispersed following the flooding of
the New Orleans headquarters due to Hurricane Katrina. Ikeda shares
editorial credit for the magazine's Second Semester (February 2006)
edition with Pearl Stewart, a veteran journalist, former TBC
editor, and founder of the organization, Black College Wire.
The organization, found online at
www.blackcollegewire.org,
is a non-profit educational project supported by the Black College
Communication Association, and through partnerships with The
National Association of Black Journalists and the Robert C. Maynard
Institute for Journalism Education.
IMDiversity and Black College Wire joined to produce
two cooperative special supplements to The Black Collegian
that feature on-the-ground, first-person coverage by Black student
journalists and photographers documenting their experiences during
and after Hurricane Katrina, and upon the return of the area HBCUs
(Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to New Orleans in
January 2006. See
Black-collegian.com.
Stewart Ikeda to Speak About Race and Class in
Media Coverage of Hurricane Katrina Ohio Univ.
Stewart Ikeda will
appear as an invited panel speaker at the University of Ohio -
Athens Scripps School of Journalism to discuss issues of race and
class in the media's coverage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in
the Gulf Coast. Ikeda will share his views as Vice President
of the New Orleans-based multicultural publishing company,
IMDiversity Inc. The company's staff was dispersed but
continued publication during and after the evacuation of its
headquarters near the city's French Quarter. Ikeda will also
discuss the role of ethnic media played in providing both
alternative perspectives and in many cases a direct, practical
communications lifeline to hard-to-reach, underrepresented minority
communities that had been impacted by the disaster. See:
Panel to look at coverage of Katrina race/class issues
in Athens (OH) News.
Added:
Journalism pros discuss what went wrong, right with Katrina coverage
in Athens (OH) News;
Journalists criticize media's coverage of Katrina, race in The (OU) Post Online.
Site Redesign Delayed Due to Hurricane
Katrina 10/05
The pages of
SDIkeda.com were temporarily taken offline for a comprehensive
update and redesign beginning in mid-summer of 2005. The site
was intended to be relaunched in a new format at the start of
September. However, due to Ikeda's work with the New
Orleans-based publisher IMDiversity, Inc., whose staff was relocated
during the hurricane, priority for development for this site was
downgraded.
As a result, several
visitors were unable to access several areas on SDIkeda.com for an
extended period up through the middle of October. Apologies go
out to those who were inconvenienced. Please do visit again
for new updates beginning in December 2005.
Conference - UWisconsin-Milwaukee Center for
International Education 4/05
Stewart Ikeda will chair a panel at the conference,
Command Lines: The Emergence of Governance in Global Cyberspace, an
international conference held in Milwaukee, April 29, sponsored by
the Center for International Education. For information, see
www.uwm.edu.
Workshops - UMichigan-Ann Arbor MAASU
Conference 4/05
Stewart Ikeda will lead
two workshops at the 2005 MAASU Conference at his alma mater, the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The workshop, tentatively
entitled "Pornographers, Politicos and Prey," will explore how
online ethnic media and organizations are prey to hacking, squatting
and other tactics intended to divert unsuspecting traffic to niche
pornography sites, mail order bride businesses, and competing
organizations, with emphasis on how new media developers and
community activists can help safeguard against such tactics. April
1-3. For registration information, see
MAASU 2005 conference site.
Talk, Workshops - UW-Milwaukee Writers
Conference 4/05
Stewart Ikeda will
participate as an invited speaker and offer two seminars for writers
at the 2005 Annual Writers Festival sponsored by the
UW-Milwaukee School of Continuing Education on April 15-17. In
addition to delivering a lecture on Sunday, April 17, Ikeda will
lead two interactive sessions -- one related to historical research
for fiction writers and the other focused on multicultural issues in
creative writing. For registration information, see
brochure in PDF format.
Reading, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
11/04
Novelist Stewart Ikeda,
author of an epic novel about internment camp experiences of
Japanese-Americans during World War II, will read from his works on
Thursday, Nov. 11, 7:30PM, at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). See
details.
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