Multicultural Reunion 2023
The Road Ahead Together
Join us Nov. 10-12, 2023. Registration is now closed.
For many of us, our arrival on campus challenged the norm of what it meant to be a Grinnellian. While our time at Grinnell certainly changed our lives, our lives certainly changed Grinnell.
The 2023 Multicultural Reunion will present a connected, inclusive, and engaging series of events for alums from across spectrums of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender expression, spirituality, and ability to access and explore their own Grinnell narratives while building community within community.
This year’s hybrid format invites alumni who were unable or reluctant to attend events in the past. As we hold it down for ourselves and the Grinnellians to come, we will:
• Provide multiple ways to participate with virtual events leading up to an on-campus experience,
• Celebrate the progress of our College and classmates,
• Challenge the hard topics,
• Have a lot of fun!
Yoruba Richen will be the keynote speaker on November 10, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. CT in JRC 101.
We are looking forward to welcoming back friends, and creating new ones, to Multicultural Reunion 2023.
A block of rooms has been reserved at both the Comfort Inn and Country Inn for Grinnell College Multicultural Reunion. A free hotel shuttle will run to and from campus starting Friday, Nov. 10 at 8 a.m. until Sunday, Nov. 12 at noon.
Keynote Speaker – Yoruba Richen
The Black Freedom Struggle, the LGBT Rights Movement and the Ongoing Struggle for Equality
Yoruba Richen is an Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker whose work has been featured on multiple outlets, including Netflix, MSNBC, FX/Hulu, HBO and PBS.
Her most recent film The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for a Critic’s Choice Award. It is currently streaming on Peacock.
Other recent films include How It Feels to Be Free (American Masters), The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show (Peacock) and Green Book: Guide to Freedom (Smithsonian Channel). She directed an episode of the award-winning series Black and Missing for HBO and High on the Hog for Netflix.
Yoruba is the co-director of American Reckoning which aired on PBS's FRONTLINE and The Killing of Breonna Taylor which won an NAACP Image Award and is streaming on HULU. Her previous films, The New Black and Promised Land won multiple festival awards before airing on Independent Lens and P.O.V.
Yoruba is a past Guggenheim and Fulbright fellow and she won the Creative Promise Award at Tribeca All Access. Yoruba was a Sundance Producers Fellow and Women’s fellow and is a recipient of the Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Filmmaker’s Award. She is the founding director of the Documentary Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
Multicultual Reunion 2023 Schedule
View the schedule of the weekend festivities.
View Multicultural Reunion Schedule
Alumni Planning Committee Members
Althea Ricketts ’86 and Ceraun Loggins ’12, co-chairs
Lester Alemán ’07, Avery Barnett ’21, Randall Christopher ‘87, Jennifer Dong ’17, Jeffrey Fields ’90, Milton Garcia ’14, Grisel Hernandez ’17, Lin Hsu ’22, Carly Jerome ’11, Laika Lewis ’17, Karo Marquez-Gil ’17, Kathi Matsuura ’90, Reina Matsuura ’19, Amanda Na ’22, Rick Rose ’88, Jasmine Sanchez ’10, Natz Soberanes ’13, Rhonda Stuart ’86, Fae Townsend ’01, and Chris Wilde ’88.
Multicultural Reunion 2021 – Reimagining our Grinnell narrative
For many of us, our arrival on campus challenged the norm of what it meant to be a Grinnellian. While our time at Grinnell certainly changed our lives, our lives certainly changed Grinnell.
Multicultural Reunion 2021 presented a connected, inclusive, and engaging series of events for alums from across spectrums of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender expression, and ability to access and explore their own Grinnell narratives while building community within community.