BME Inspired - Hot Topics

Wednesday 05 April 2017 / 1:30pm - 5pm

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Join DSU for an afternoon of discussions and guest speakers focussing on the topics that matter to you:

  • BME Identity – how students identify as BME;
  • BME in HE – discussing the need to liberate higher education;
  • BME in Leadership – expanding on the stereotypes of BME leaders, the barriers they face and how these can be challenged.

Guest speakers include:

  • Aadam Muuse, National Union of Students’ (NUS) Black Students’ Officer
  • Mostafa Rajaai, National Union of Students’ (NUS) International Officer
  • Éireann Attridge from Cambridge University Students’ Union
  • Kaushika Patel, project lead for DMU’s ‘Freedom to Achieve’ scheme
  • Mark Prescod, DMU Senior Lecturer and Student
  • ...PLUS headline keynote speaker: Award-winning rapper and poet Akala

Tickets are free (click the link below to get yours) and are available on a first come first served basis