Are you curious about what the current LT class is learning? Do you wonder how the curriculum has changed since you went through LT? Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at the Flagship Program curriculum this year. Come to learn about how we are adapting to a virtual environment, what racial caucusing is, the new focus on belonging, leadership skills being developed, and more.
Hosts: Frank Nam, LT'13, Chair, Curriculum Committee; Sue Bennett, LT'94, Executive Director; Tamara Myers, Director, Learning Design and Equity.
Date: December 3, 2020, 5:00-6:00 p.m.
Tickets: Free! Make sure to register so we can send you the Zoom link.
Who: This event is for LT alumni and Honorary LT
Hosts:
Frank Nam, LT’13, Project Director with Civic Commons. He produces and hosts a bi-weekly podcast called We Belong Here and works to promote a framework of belonging to create transformational change in our region. He currently serves on the board of USA Ultimate, a National Governing Body under the US Olympic Committee. He has served on the boards of 826 Seattle (now the Bureau of Fearless Ideas), Southend Ultimate Program, and Seattle Works. Prior to his current role, he supervised the Community Engagement Coordinators in the City of Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods. Before that, he was the National Admissions Director for City Year, Inc., a foster care mentorship coordinator at Treehouse, an SAT/GRE instructor, a web developer, and a paper boy for the New Jersey Star Ledger. He graduated from Rutgers College with a BA in History. Frank was born in Seoul, South Korea. His family immigrated to New York City but he has lived in Seattle since 1996 and currently resides in South Seattle. In his spare time Frank likes to coach, bike around town, and snowboard in the winter.
Sue Bennett, LT’94, is the Executive Director and is responsible for ensuring that the organization cultivates leaders who can think systemically, operate collaboratively, and drive solutions that move us forward to a more resilient and equitable community. She works with a terrific Board of Directors, a staff team of four, and alumni-run committees who are responsible for the Flagship Program Curriculum, Alumni Engagement, Screening & Selection of the Class, Finance, Board Governance, and Resource Development. Sue has decades of experience developing and facilitating leadership programs and building community in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. She has served on many boards including the Washington Women’s Foundation, Child Care Resources, Planned Parenthood, Cancer Lifeline, American Society for Training and Development, and the Reed Coleman Family Foundation.
She graduated from Stanford University and was in the LT Class of 1994. You can often find her in the mountains hiking, with friends solving world problems, or with her two grown children cooking (the kids doing the cooking) fabulous meals. Sue is an optimist and is confident that together we can create a better, healthier community for all.
Tamara Myers is Director, Learning Design and Equity and is responsible for directing LT’s Curriculum Committee and overseeing the Flagship Program. Prior to LT, Tamara taught classes on education, imagination, diversity, oppression, power, and social justice at the UW for about a decade and held research and advising positions for about a decade before that. Tamara has a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (social justice-focused teaching and learning strategies) and focused her learning on the U.S. history of racism and movements against it as an American Ethnic Studies undergraduate. Her non-academic learning and leadership includes grassroots community organizing and activism on a range of issues, nonprofit work and board memberships, volunteering to meet basic needs, and experiences with intentional communities and cooperatives.
Tamara is a lifelong resident of the area, having grown up in Lynnwood and moved to Seattle in 1993. She is dedicated to working with others to make our region a more just, inclusive, and healthy place for all who live here. This commitment has driven all her learning, teaching, community, and organizing work throughout her adult life, and it’s what brought her to LT.