The School of Education & Human Development (SEHD) of Fairfield University invites members of our community to share in our annual Diversity Lecture Series event.  This year our Keynote Speaker is Dr. Sj Miller who will speak to, "LIBERATION FOR LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC Students" This presentation will focus on the urgency of responding to the needs of LGBTQIA and BIPOC students. This lecture will explore how the lives and freedoms of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC students are hinged to our in/actions, and how their liberation is inexorably bound up within ours. Policies, outdated practices, and damaging beliefs that foreclose possibilities for their self-determination will be discussed. This lecture will help participants develop tools and strategies that will support student liberation: to center their voices, to learn with and from them, is to honor, uplift and celebrate their lived experiences; and, to provide them with a sense of hope and probability that the world will be better prepared to welcome them and those yet to come.