Reflect, Rethink, & Renew in Seattle

Diverse Cultures Innovator
With 10 nationally published books in memoir, fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, and poetry, Luis J. Rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Chicano writers in the country. Luis’s poetry has won a Poetry Center Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award, and Foreword magazine’s Silver Book Award, among others. His two children’s books have won a Patterson Young Adult Book Award, two Skipping Stones Honor Awards, and a Parent’s Choice Book Award, among others.

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Private Sector Innovator
Dr. Akhtar Badshah, senior director of Global Community Affairs, sheds light on Microsoft’s overall community investment strategy; including how and why Microsoft is committed to funding the arts.

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Public Advocacy Innovator
As Chairman of the House of Representatives Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, Norm Dicks (D-WA) currently wields the gavel on the congressional panel that recently oversaw the largest increases for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in 30 years.

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