What is IDEall?

IDEall stands for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity for All. This committee, formed in 2020, is open to all faculty and staff of the Kansas State University School of Music, Theatre and Dance.

Check out our anti-racism resources, with articles, recordings, playlists and artist databases in all school disciplines.

Events

IDEAll Week 2024 is Feb. 13-15!

Sponsored by the Dow Center for Multicultural and Community Studies

This year's programming celebrates wellness in its many forms.

IDEAll Week Events
Date	Time	Even	Presenter	Location
Feb. 13	11:30AM	Food for Life: Healthy College Food? Yes! Dr. Gurgel will demonstrate how to cook healthy on a budget & all attending students will eat a delicious lunch!	Dr. Ruth Gurgel	Purple Masque Lobby (West Memorial Stadium)
Feb. 14	11:30AM	Playback Theatre This improvisation theatre invites audience members to share stories from their lives and watch them enactd or "played back" by actors on the sport.	Drama Therapy Graduate Students	Chapman Theatre (Nichols Hall)
Feb. 15	11:30AM	Suicide Prevention Coach Parker will discuss mental health struggles and offer "three critical steps" that will help everyone in their on journey.	Coach Damon Parker	Nichols Hall Room 122
Feb. 15	11:30AM	Understanding Muscle Tension Dysphonia (MTD) from a Trauma-Informed Perspective	Dr. Lily Guerrero	Kirmser Hall (McCain Auditorium)
Feb. 15	5:30PM	Lecture Recital: Canciones de Latino América	Dr. Lily Guerrero	All Faiths Chapel

Special Guests

Coach Damon Parker, the keynote speaker and executive director of The Jones Project (thejonesproject.org), spent 21 years as a teacher, coach and professional speaker in both Kansas and Missouri. His gripping 60-minute presentations are not solely directed at students who are in crisis; they also are for those in the audience who don’t have firsthand experience with mental health illnesses.

Both students and teachers leave Coach Parker’s presentations with clearly defined and easily accessible action steps that are specific to your school. Audiences are taught not only to have empathy for their peers with mental health struggles, but “three critical steps” that will help everyone, regardless of where they are in their own mental health journey.

 

Dr. Lily Guerrero is an Assistant Professor of Voice and Director of Vocal Pedagogy at the University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music. The daughter of Mexican and Cuban immigrants, her research focuses on advocating for Latinx voices in classical music and she has received fellowship funding for this endeavor from the Society for American Music. She is sought out as a lecturer and panelist on the topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the voice studio and serves as a member of the National Association Teachers of Singing (NATS) DEI Task Force as well as the organizer for the NATS Latinx/Hispanic Teachers Affinity Group. Dr. Guerrero also contributes her knowledge of underrepresented composers as an Art Song Advisor for Song Helix and the Institute for Composer Diversity and serves the local community as a Teaching Artist for Austin Opera. In the summer, Dr. Guerrero is on the Voice Faculty of the Atlantic Music Festival in Waterville, Maine. An activist-scholar, Dr. Guerrero’s research highlights the intersection of music and social justice in the United States.